Earlier in the summer Dominic Carmichael attended the Territorial School of Music (TMS) and he shares with us how the week went:

This year I was lucky enough to attend Territorial Music School (TMS), which was held at Bearwood College which is just outside of Reading. The Music School is very traditional, which I enjoyed as it is very different from our divisional School of Christian Arts. There were two main options for the week, Girls’ Chorus or Band. The main option rehearsals took up most of day, but rehearsals were very good and the music progressed very quickly and started to sound good early on in the week. We also had free time during the day which was used meeting new people, playing football and resting after long main option rehearsals. Evening entertainment included a variety of things from quizzes, to an Oscar film evening with disco.

My highlight of the week came on the Sunday night. We had our evening worship, which moved into a very moving experience, where it was clear that everyone was really touched by the love of God! I would have to say that was one of my closest moments with God, and probably would have been for many other people who were also there.

We had a mid-week festival held at Bearwood College, which was attended by many parents of students at the Music School. The Band and Girls’ Chorus played and sung music which we had practiced for the first few days, but the band left some of the larger pieces for the final festival. The final festival was held at the Reading Central corps. The standard and quality of music performed was high, and the audience enjoyed the different items presented by the Band, Girls’ Chorus and also the whole school chorus.

I had a really good time, and can’t wait to go again next year!
Dominic Carmichael