BIOS Reporter – Volume 13, No.4 – October 1989

We seem to be surrounded by reminders that Church Music is under siege. Or is it not in fact a battle? Are the disputes and difficulties that arise from time to time rather the kind of fractious squabbles that inevitably arise at a time of conspicuous decline? I do not think that one could argue that the core of sacred music in the British Isles – the choral foundations of our Cathedrals and Collegiate churches – is in a poor state: indeed standards remain as gloriously high as ever. But as soon as one steps outside this senior elite one becomes more acutely aware of the problems…