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The International Staff Songsters (ISS) is the principal choir of the Salvation Army. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Based in London, UK, the group performs Christian choral music in concerts, [ 3 ] worship services and television [ 4 ] and radio [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] broadcasts, and has recorded more than 50 albums since its inauguration.
The band has released numerous CDs of Salvation Army music, including a collaboration with Black Dyke Band to produce a double CD recording of the published works of Wilfred Heaton (The Heaton Collection). This recording has received critical acclaim from the brass band world's leading publications, several of which selected it as their CD of ...
In The Salvation Army the term "songster" refers to an adult chorister in a Salvation Army choir, formally called a "Songster Brigade". [6] The plural form "songsters" is commonly used to refer to a Songster Brigade when preceded by the definite article. Songsters commonly sing in worship services and can be used to teach congregations new songs.
Chalk Farm Band has always been at the forefront of Salvation Army banding. Indeed, as early as 1898, just sixteen years after its formation in 1882, it was first featured as the solo band for a Salvation Army International Congress. The venue was London's Crystal Palace and the band was led by a youthful A W Punchard. This notable achievement ...
"In Christ Alone" is a popular modern Christian song written by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend, both songwriters of Christian hymns and contemporary worship music in the United Kingdom. The song, with a strong Irish melody, is the first hymn they penned together. [1] [2] The music was by Getty and the original lyrics by Townend. It was composed ...
From its beginnings in Adelaide the Salvation Army spread rapidly and soon reached Victoria where the first corps in the state was opened in December 1882 at North Melbourne. By 1890, just 10 years after the first meeting in Adelaide, there were 255 corps and 419 outposts throughout Australia, manned by 747 officers, mostly "home-grown".
He learned piano and organ, and in 1919 started work in the Salvation Army musical instrument department in central London, soon moving to the Musical Editorial Department as a composer. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He became an officer in the Salvation Army, and in 1928 re-established the Salvationist Publishing and Supplies (S. P. & S.) Band. [ 1 ]
After cutting the proposed singles "Smooth Operator" and "Your Love Is King", the first album track recorded was "Sally", a song about the Salvation Army. [9] During recording the band worked collectively on the musical direction, rehearsing each song in detail and then recording it. [9] The song "When Am I Going to Make a Living" was started ...