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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.
All bandsmen and women are actively involved in their local Salvation Army Corps, many holding leadership positions. They give their time freely to this additional ministry. The members of the band are drawn from Salvation Army centres as far afield as Kettering, Manchester, Bristol, Norwich and Birmingham. While based in the UK, the band has ...
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".
Traditionally many corps buildings are alternatively called temples or citadels, such as Openshaw Citadel. [3] The Salvation Army also uses the more traditional term "church" for some local congregations and their buildings. Corps are usually led by an officer or married officer couple, who fulfil the role of a pastor [4] in other
1979 saw Roland Cobb's retirement as bandmaster. The band was led for a short period by Paul Ruby before Roland Cobb's eldest son, Dr Stephen Cobb (also bandmaster of the International Staff Band), was appointed [1] as his long-term successor, and under him the band's annual concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall entitled Hendon Highlights was established in 1985.
The first ever Salvation Army Corps Band was formed in December 1879 in Consett, County Durham, a former steelworking town, [1] another followed later in Northwich, Cheshire in 1880. It was not long before the Army fully adopted the use of music in its work, and the Salvation Army Headquarters eventually established the International Staff Band ...
The label is also known for its releases of Salvation Army (particularly brass band) music. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In the 1950s the Australian division of Regal Zonophone played an important role in the emerging Australian country music genre, signing several emerging country stars including Slim Dusty , Smoky Dawson , Reg Lindsay and Chad Morgan .
Salvation Army bands have a long history in Australia, [1] [2] with the first established in 1881 in Adelaide, South Australia. [3] By the late 1990s, Australia had 200 senior and 130 junior Salvation Army brass bands.