Musicians lobby religious leaders to save the choral jobs

The Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM) has written to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of Westminster, and the Chief Rabbi, calling for an immediate halt to redundancies to secure the livelihoods of musicians working in churches and synagogues. CEO Deborah Annetts said: “We are deeply dismayed that despite our efforts we are now seeing redundancies and even the disbandment of choirs that have been established for hundreds of years. The UK’s great choral tradition is on the verge of disintegration because of short-sighted measures from some religious establishments."
Making their musicians unemployed at this time of crisis would be “a less than charitable act”, she said.