Secretary’s Newsletter 84 Spring 2020

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Cancellation of our 2020 Annual Conference. It is with considerable regret that I have to notify you of the cancellation of our 2020 Hymn Society Leyland Conference which was to have taken place from 14th – 17th July 2020; it has become another inevitable casualty of the Coronavirus (COVID-19).

The Rev’d Canon Alan Luff RIP

Dear Hymn Society Friends, I very much regret that I have to inform you of the death of one of our three Honorary Vice Presidents, the Revd Canon Alan Luff. Alan died on Thursday evening. It does appear at this stage that his death was not Coronavirus-related, which may in some ways be comforting but it does not mitigate the … Read More

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Treasure No 58: John Wilson 1905–92

Treasure No 58: John Wilson 1905–92 by Alan Luff and B. Massey: An article from Bulletin 193, Autumn 1992 Vice-President of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland Fellow of the Hymn Society of America fter a long life lived to the full, John Wilson—to whom the world of hymnody owes more that it will probably ever know died … Read More

Treasure No 57: Walking by Faith

Treasure No 57: Walking by Faith by Alan Luff: An article from Bulletin 187, Spring 1991 An exploration of the devotional context in which the hymn and the worship-song are used. Three parables Many will have read of the small group who settled in a barren spot in Scotland and made a garden of it. They did nothing except what … Read More

Treasure No 42: The Hymn Today

Treasure No 42: The Hymn Today: An article from Bulletin 138, Winter 1977 Under this title a symposium was presented at the Society’s Conference at Norwich last year. Here we print the substance of what each speaker said on that occasion (or, more accurately, what he would have said had time allowed). i. The Challenge of the Words by Brian … Read More

Treasure No 40: Easter Joy

Treasure No 40: Easter Joy by Alan Luff: An article from Bulletin, 134, Autumn 1975 aster is the greatest of the Church’s festivals. Yet there is and long has been, it would seem, a shortage of good music of all kinds for Easter. It is not at first clear why this should be so. There is a great wealth of … Read More