|
CD performers: musicians and members of the St Joseph’s,
Moorebank, school choir
Children and staff of St Joseph’s Primary School at Moorebank have celebrated the Jubilee Year and the school’s 25th anniversary with a CD
of original religious music for schools and parishes.
The project began last May when Andrew Chinn, the school’s religious education co-ordinator, approached principal Sean Grace and parish priest Fr Kevin
Starkey with a suggestion of recording original material he had written.
The CD is dedicated to the memory of Michael Weir, St Joseph’s principal from 1981 to 1993, who died in 1998, and to Belinda Chinn,
Andrew’s daughter, who died from cancer last February, aged 15.
Belinda wrote one of the songs on the CD, while a recording she made with Mark Raue in 1996 for Catholic Mission of The Face of God, is the
last track on the CD.
The 22- track CD, mainly comprising songs written by Andrew, was recorded at Wirra Willa Studios at Glenfield using the school choir and musicians and plays for 73 minutes.
The CD
also includes a re-recording of a song, This is Our School, written by Peter Kearney, and a recording of the whole school singing Advance Australia Fair, along with some tracks by Mark Raue and Wayne Rice.
It
includes a sequence of five Easter songs, telling the story of Easter from Palm Sunday to the Resurrection and beyond.
Simple songs of praise include These Hands, I Have Called You By Name, God of the Morning
and A School Prayer to St Joseph.
Students and staff from other schools in the Sydney Archdiocese and the Diocese of Wollongong perform as musicians and singers on the CD.
Orders can be placed at the school on 9602 7254.
|
