Music for Sunday 7 February 2010
February 6, 2010 by Rob Westwood-Payne
Filed under News, Random Jottings, Worship Meetings
In our meeting tomorrow evening, Cradley Heath Band will be playing Ronald Tremain’s music, How Sweet the Name (French).
Ronald Tremain was born in Feilding, New Zealand in 1923. He died at Niagra on the Lake, Canada in 1998. He had a distinguished career as a composer and teacher. After some years working free-lance in London as a teacher, composer and examiner he returned to New Zealand where he spent ten years as a lecturer at the University of Auckland. In 1963 he was awarded the Carnegie Travelling Fellowship and toured universities in the United States. From 1967-68 he was Visiting Professor at the School of Music, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and from 1968-69 Visiting Professor of Theory and Composition at the State University of New York, Buffalo. He then returned to Britain to lecture at Goldsmiths College at the University of London.
In 1970 he moved to Canada where, until his retirement in 1989, he was Professor of Music at Brock University. He was made a Professor Emeritus in 1991.
His hymn tune, French, was arranged by Salvationist composer, Donald Osgood, to the words:
How sweet the Name of Jesus sounds
In a believer’s ear!
It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,
And drives away his fear.Dear Name, the Rock on which I build,
My Shield and Hiding Place,
My never failing treasury, filled
With boundless stores of grace!Weak is the effort of my heart,
And cold my warmest thought;
But when I see Thee as Thou art,
I’ll praise Thee as I ought.Till then I would Thy love proclaim
With every fleeting breath,
And may the music of Thy Name
Refresh my soul in death!
At the end of the meeting, the Band will send everyone home with their feet tapping, playing Henry Goffin’s march: The Red Shield. It is one of the classic marches of The Salvation Army. In common with most Salvation Army marches which feature a hymn tune or chorus, this march includes the chorus Thou Art a Mighty Saviour:
Thou art a mighty Saviour,
Thy love doth never waver,
Thou shalt be mine forever,
And thine alone I’ll be.
The title refers to the Salvation Army symbol of the red shield which is at the forefront of our support for UK service personnel.
Why not join us for our worship meetings at 10:30am and 6:00pm at The Salvation Army, Meredith Street, Cradley Heath, West Midlands B64 5EP.
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Rob Westwood-Payne grew up in The Salvation Army at Norwich Citadel. He left Norwich to study at the University of Warwick and became fully involved in the music centre there culminating in his conducting Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue to a full house in Symphony Hall in Birmingham. He also transferred to The Salvation Army at Coventry City, where he became Songster Leader at the age of 21. He was made Songster Leader at Cradley Heath in April 1998 shortly before marrying Gail in the following October. He was commissioned Bandmaster of the Cradley Heath Band of The Salvation Army in January 2006. He is a former leader of the West Midlands Divisional Youth Chorus and is currently Programme Director at the West Midlands Divisional Summer School for The Salvation Army. He is an Associate Solicitor in the Licensing Team of a national practice based in the south west.
