tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937Sun, 25 Jan 2026 11:36:39 +0000News items for DepList during the final ten years of its twenty-year existence under the same management. DepList was founded by Corinne Orde and Mhairi Ellis in 2000 and its website closed down on 1st May 2020.http://deplist.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Blogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-202592033777191172Sat, 02 May 2020 13:12:00 +00002026-01-25T11:36:39.287+00:00This time last year, I announced my intention to retire from DepList management in 2020, shortly after the 20th anniversary of DepList's foundation at the beginning of the millennium. In fact DepList probably started before then, sometime in 1998 or 1999 (goodness, how long ago that seems!), as a landline and email-based resource in the form of a simple mailing list for invited members, whereby http://deplist.blogspot.com/2020/05/farewell.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-498633231139720425Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:28:00 +00002019-03-13T10:28:57.514+00:00 DepList member William Vann is conducting the first London performance in 130 years of Parry’s oratorio Judith on Wednesday 3rd April 2019 at the Royal Festival Hall. Sarah Fox sings the title role and will be joined by Kathryn Rudge, Toby Spence and Henry Waddington. You can book your tickets here. Other concerts coming up: Pizza Express Art Song Series in Chelsea Gareth http://deplist.blogspot.com/2019/03/parrys-judith.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-912074035673999592Mon, 08 Jan 2018 14:21:00 +00002023-07-24T11:44:38.447+01:00On New Year’s Day an organist was due to play for a service in northwest London at noon. At 9.36 a.m. he was sitting in a stationary, broken-down train outside Hastings, with little prospect of getting to his destination in time. So he sent an SOS to DepList from his mobile phone. Twenty minutes later he’d found a substitute able to deputise for him. He reported later that it was a very good http://deplist.blogspot.com/2018/01/deplist-comes-to-rescue.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-2521618597927199640Sun, 07 May 2017 17:24:00 +00002017-05-07T18:24:30.914+01:00Our advert placing facilities for associate members have moved over to our Wordpress system, which we use for our non-nember advertising forms. This means that in future, all associate members will have to log in to our Members' Area before they can place an advertisement. The old forms will be disabled and the common password will no longer work. Each member will be able to create their own http://deplist.blogspot.com/2017/05/associate-member-advertising.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-5943149386212842129Mon, 17 Oct 2016 11:16:00 +00002016-10-17T15:26:59.462+01:00JotForm, the outfit that we have used for some years to create our contact forms, advertising forms, and all manner of other forms, has restructured its pricing plans recently. It is US-based, and it has imposed the kinds of charges that have become prohibitive for a non-commercial organisation like ours, what with Brexit and the falling value of the pound. We can continue to use JotForm for our http://deplist.blogspot.com/2016/10/changes-to-deplist-site.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-8898880135737879074Wed, 06 Jan 2016 15:01:00 +00002016-01-06T15:13:44.212+00:00Elisabeth Meister was for several years a DepList member during the early part of her career. Hear her on the beauty of the human voice. (You will need to sit through an advert before the video starts.) http://deplist.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-beauty-of-human-voice.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-6824855010801884978Sun, 29 Nov 2015 11:34:00 +00002015-11-29T11:34:21.358+00:00November saw 36 jobs advertised on DepList. That's more than one per day. Let's break our December records this Advent. We have more than enough members to go around, so any visitors to this site looking for well qualified and experienced singers, organists, pianists, conductors and choral directors, try placing an advert. If it's your first time of using DepList, there's no charge. If you've http://deplist.blogspot.com/2015/11/lets-break-our-records.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-2810138113197199649Wed, 04 Nov 2015 15:15:00 +00002015-11-04T15:15:10.185+00:00One year since my last post. We need news. The reason I've not been posting articles is that my leisure time is much more limited these days, and definitely not that DepList is less busy than it was. Quite the reverse in fact. Last month alone saw 52 job adverts pass through, including a couple for Christmas Midnight Mass. A day without a job being advertised through DepList is a rarity indeed, http://deplist.blogspot.com/2015/11/give-me-news-please.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-6285811991312822251Sat, 01 Nov 2014 21:53:00 +00002014-11-14T22:01:18.843+00:00I was shocked to learn of the recent death of David Trendell, one of DepList's long-standing members. Here is a notice from St Mary's Bourne Street. There are also obituaries in the Telegraph and the Guardian. He was known as an academic and a choral director, but when I first knew him in the early 1990s, it was his wonderful voice that impressed me most. He sang intuitively with, as http://deplist.blogspot.com/2014/11/david-trendell-rip_1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-4415516767408507300Sat, 17 May 2014 20:16:00 +00002014-05-17T21:21:24.227+01:00 On the first day of May, a message was sent to our members which made me very happy. It concerned an advertisement that a choral director had sent out on the previous day at 12.46 p.m. He urgently needed not one, but eight singers, for a funeral that was due to start at 2 p.m. Yes, you read that correctly. He was seeking eight singers for a service commencing in 75 minutes' time. The adverts http://deplist.blogspot.com/2014/05/another-deplist-triumph.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-3384946762102412205Mon, 21 Apr 2014 11:19:00 +00002014-04-21T19:14:57.119+01:00DepList is offering free use of its advertising facilities to non-members until the end of April. This is by way of thanking all our advertisers for their custom during our busy Easter period.  I'm frankly amazed that DepList continues to be as busy as it is, with a steady stream of jobs being advertised and a regular flow of new members applying to join. We've seen a few potential http://deplist.blogspot.com/2014/04/special-offer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-3196383054174895446Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:14:00 +00002014-11-03T11:02:27.879+00:00 The Music Makers are delighted to announce the Liturgical Première of the  Westminster Mass for Boys’ Voices Music by Jeremy de Satgé to be performed by the Choristers of Westminster Cathedral Choir Directed by Martin Baker at the 5.30pm Mass on Tuesday, 14th January 2014. You are warmly invited to attend the Mass. For more information regarding the music http://deplist.blogspot.com/2014/01/new-mass-setting-at-westminster.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-9060797247413171244Sat, 30 Nov 2013 12:43:00 +00002013-11-30T18:18:05.692+00:00Part of DepList's appeal for non-member advertisers is being able to post an emergency advertisement at very short notice. Invoicing and payment can be dealt with later. The most important thing is to find a dep quickly with minimum fuss. Until today, advertisers would fill in a form detailing their requirements, I would then forward it to members, and the job vacancy would be filled within http://deplist.blogspot.com/2013/11/non-member-advertising-change-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-8102002922740084379Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:52:00 +00002013-09-26T12:52:34.859+01:00New term, new beginnings. This time of the year always brings an influx of new applicants to join DepList, a good number of them premature. It is worth reminding potential applicants and sponsors that DepList's function is emphatically not to help people obtain work. That may happen to be an end-result or a byproduct of DepList, but it's not what it was designed or invented for. "So what's http://deplist.blogspot.com/2013/09/that-time-of-year-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-1488849261384628098Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:53:00 +00002013-06-18T19:53:40.840+01:00Yesterday, fully ten days after our Memberkit software suffered a seemingly terminal malfunction, which brought down the whole of our Members' Area, it sprang to life again, as suddenly as it had died. Too late! Ten days' downtime is not acceptable for a busy website like this, and now that I have rebuilt the site with WordPress I shall be sticking with the new version. I have removed the http://deplist.blogspot.com/2013/06/post-script.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-6522715832945067474Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:44:00 +00002013-06-15T18:44:33.069+01:00I should have added that our new Members' Area is now officially open. http://deplist.blogspot.com/2013/06/members-area-final-stage-complete.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-8052208922743549758Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:42:00 +00002013-06-15T18:42:40.274+01:00From now on, all news and information of an administrative nature — i.e. anything that's of interest only to our Members — will be posted in the Members' Area of the website. This news page will be reserved for more general news.http://deplist.blogspot.com/2013/06/new-announcements-page.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-6973777045703964626Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:28:00 +00002013-06-13T19:52:06.541+01:00Much of the Members' Area is now rebuilt. WordPress is delightfully easy to use, and the Directory plug-in works beautifully. Much easier than the previous software, and only one bug so far. I reported the bug on the support forum, and got an almost instant reply that the developers were already working on fixing the problem! Members are invited to create entries for the Directory as from now. http://deplist.blogspot.com/2013/06/members-area-first-stage-complete.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-1149108711176744984Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:55:00 +00002013-10-10T16:23:09.346+01:00Our Members' Area is still down (see yesterday's post). This does not look good. Server problems don't usually last this long. We can't afford this sort of unprovoked malfunction. Our membership software (Memberkit) was always buggy and unfortunately the developers have long since lost interest and stopped developing it, or providing updates and support (let alone ironing out the bugs). I can http://deplist.blogspot.com/2013/06/transferring-members-area-to-wordpress.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-5321369570160133155Sat, 08 Jun 2013 19:20:00 +00002013-06-09T17:12:40.978+01:00The Members' Area part of our website is not functioning. I don't know why. I hope it's just a temporary server problem which will sort itself out. It's certainly not the result of anything I've done, as I've made no changes to the website recently, and it was functioning perfectly well earlier this week. The Members' Area is quite separate from the rest of the website. It is interactive and http://deplist.blogspot.com/2013/06/members-area-is-down.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-4646347976642922981Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:11:00 +00002013-01-09T20:11:00.177+00:00My colleague Mhairi tells me that DepList managed to fill about 36 positions for Midnight Mass and Christmas morning services. That's just from adverts that passed through us, and is certainly an all-time record. It doesn't include the tens or even hundreds of positions that members were probably already booked for without there being any need to advertise them. I doubt there was anyone left on http://deplist.blogspot.com/2013/01/busy-night-for-deplist.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-2312522211482119220Sun, 23 Dec 2012 13:39:00 +00002013-07-02T19:24:26.891+01:00The answer is quite simple: someone who can deliver the goods at short notice and who displays a professional attitude at all times. And the reverse? Someone who is unprepared or ill-equipped for the job in hand, is uncooperative and lets his colleagues down. Last week, Norman Lebrecht's blog gave us a marvellous story about a pair of pianists, Andrei Gavrilov and Alexander Ghindin. It has http://deplist.blogspot.com/2012/12/what-makes-good-dep.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-6534098421665630900Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:09:00 +00002012-12-13T12:50:36.503+00:00 We're into the busiest fortnight of the year for DepList, and this year seems crazier than ever. Bookings are coming in at the rate of several per day, and if you're a tenor who is still free on Christmas Eve for Midnight Mass, you've either been abroad or asleep. I reckon we're busier at this season than during Holy Week. Paradoxically, Christmas, despite its name, is now a pagan, or http://deplist.blogspot.com/2012/12/deplists-busiest-time.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-4606686196794966853Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:00:00 +00002012-09-19T20:03:26.624+01:00 Following on from the success of their much praised début album In the Dark, Platinum Consort are busy preparing for a Storm of Light, a concert that will include the world première of a work of that name by Richard Bates. Scored for choir, harp and 'cello, it consists of seven meditations on the light of the world. Also in the programme are Palestrina's Missa Papaehttp://deplist.blogspot.com/2012/09/platinum-consort-storm-of-light.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986715572874393937.post-5677445183769463471Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:47:00 +00002012-08-30T11:02:23.691+01:00 Fans of Call the Midwife — Jennifer Worth's best-seller turned into a highly successful television period drama series on BBC1 — may spot some of our female members in one of their more unusual assignments. Fully kitted out in nuns' habits, these "extra" singing nuns, all members of DepList, appear in the chapel scenes and can be heard on the soundtrack, singing the plainchant http://deplist.blogspot.com/2012/08/an-unusual-assignment.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0