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It can be rather difficult to obtain this one - long out print I think... does anybody know better than me?
I tried to buy a copy from Allegro Music and they said it is definitely unobtainable.
I even tried to borrow a copy from the British Library (through my local, which is now possible!) but ended up with a copy of something else - Four Chorale Preludes, I think , by Edmundson - including one on 'Vom Himmel Hoch' - which wasn't quite the same thing.
If anyone has a copy, it shouldn't take more than an evening or two to re-typeset it using Sibelius and run off some clean pdf copies. Even Sibelius Student would do the job. Strictly speaking, the copyright holder in the music should get a fee for each copy, of course. (I refer everyone to Barry Williams' excellent book for more information.)
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Found this on YouTube - might be fun for 9 Lessons.. Anyone done it before?...
The first school's choir and their parents sang it a few years back. Faster than this, which I recommend.
It was also the 2nd carol at the first 9L&C's with a choir after many years without one. Made the congregation sit up.
It needs a "Yee-ha!" at the end.
**digression alert**
Does anyone else have a sermon at a 9L&C's? Give him his due, it's the shortest sermon of the year, but still....
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Royal Holloway College chapel? (near Egham) Some risk of infrequent aircraft... but only an evening service on Sundays. Low risk of traffic noise. en chamade reed.
But I've no connection with the place and don't know who to ask, sorry.
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Burning also neutralises locally the acid in the timber, which attacks the pipe metal, especially where oak is used.
Which reminds me of the warning to only use brass screws in oak, because the tannin in the timber corrodes steel screws, making them impossible to remove.
(The oak in question, when the subject came up, being 'our' choirstalls.)
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Good grief! I seem to have stirred up a hornets' nest! I had no idea all this was ongoing, not having checked the Board for a while.
Could I refer everybody back to JustaDad's comments on Nathan's concert at Canterbury? It was exactly that sort of gig in Truro. I'm sure that everyone who went to that event will go to another organ recital. I just hope that they have as much fun.
And if Mr Goodman has any contact with Nathan (or maybe he reads this forum himself!), the only thought that we could come up with was that, surely, the point of the 'cello ensemble at the beginning of the William Tell is that all the voices are similar, and soloing out the melody seemed to be against the concept. But maybe Nathan tried this and it didn't work. And we are not worthy... etc. No other comments, m'lud.
Thanks Paul for arranging the tour.
(Was there a cipher on the 'seagull' stop? The hazards of Truro...
)Ian CK
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Nathan Laube played an entire recital at Truro last week from memory (as seen on the video feed).
Die Fledermaus - Johann Strauss II (arr Laube)
Passacaglia BWV 582 - Johann Sebastian Bach
Andante from Symphonie Gothique pour Grand Orgue Op 70 - Charles-Marie Widor
Suite pour Orgue Op. 5 - Maurice Duruflé
Overture to 'William Tell' - Gioachino Rossini (arr Laube)
Edge-of-the-seat excellence. Standing ovation.
We were so staggered, we felt like giving up the instrument.
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Non-organically, QB is now Area Dean of St Asaph!
St Asaph, ah, memories!
Singing a 9 Lessons and Carols there with King's School (Macclesfield) choir, about 1973.
Congratulations!
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Like these, did you mean?
If I'm not mistaken, from the colour scheme, these are German vuvuzelas!
When will English clients buy from British organbuilders?
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It would be the cheapest chorus ever. The way most people play them, you would only need the - is it a B natural? - I'm a long way from access to a keyboard here in Jo'burg. So three pipes should do it for a full 16 8 4. Just put a weight on the appropriate pedal all through the hymn.
Driving through Jo'burg before the opening match, there were vuvu's everywhere with a real party atmosphere. I took advantage of the gridlock to hold a vuvuzela-blowing volume competition with some bystanders on a street corner through the car window. Actually, the gridlock was rather frustrating as I was trying to get to a railway signalling centre to help the announcer operate the new departure display boards at Soccer City (Nasrec) railway station. I think the supporters all got on to the right trains after the match.
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How about a "Messiah" of Soloists?
Elevates them much too far up the pecking order... delusions of grandeur...
A "Walton" of trumpets
Ooh! on Orgelradio now...
Bewerking over gezang 299 (11:44)
Adriaan C.Schuurman 1904-1998
contains an interesting chorale prelude on "Sine Nomine"
available from a bookshop in Holland
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I'm sure that our kind hosts could look after themselves against a phalanx of phantom pipemakers.
- a welcome with a fanfare of chamades
- a dazzling display of frictionless suspended action
- a Messiaen of shimmering strings
Alas, on the internet, all must remain virtual.
(Do you think that 'a Messiaen' is the correct collective noun?)
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I see from the front page that Phillipp Klais has joined recently, so far unremarked on the Board.
I look forward to his first posting.
As a very infrequent poster, I hesitate to welcome Philipp to the Board, yet it seems to fall to me... willkommen!
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I had much the same thing (tingling, pins and needles) in a different location on the right hand several years ago.
At the time, I was driing a car 4 hours a day - which had no lumbar support built into the seat. So shoulders were pushed forward, just slightly, while I was driving.
The "arms consultant" explained that the nerves to the arms and hands are dstributed all over the surface of the shoulder (particularly the rear of the shoulder) as they head for the spinal column. So a nerve had probably become worn, through the poor seating position. Inserting a cushion in the small of the back - to take the pressure off the back of the shoulders - did the trick, slowly, over about 3 months, and the symptoms disappeared.
So, if you've read this far, you'll find that as usual, I agree with the much-esteemed MM, again, in a less entertaining and more pedantic manner. Sorry!
It may be nothing to do with the hands directly. Think where the nerves in the hands come from....
Also look up 'paresthesia'... all sorts of odd symptoms that can be cured by sorting out the spine (I did, by myself, using exercises taught by a good physio). Possibly not unrelated.
Now where did I leave the hedgetrimmer and chainsaw?
Good luck!
Ian CK
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If you have a qualifying student in the family, Sibelius Student is a cost-effective way to acquire a cut-down but adequate version of 'the beast'. It is 'limited' to 12 staves, and doesn't automatically print parts from a full score, but there is a way of doing that manually. The ability to 'play back' is a great way to check for mistakes, duff notes, incorrect accidentals.
But, of course, putting notes on a score is still a time-consuming pastime. And it's so easy to lose that idea just before it's fixed onto the stave.
Finding a MIDI file, importing it and editing it can be a great time-saver.
Repetitive stuff, like the Widor 6, is so easy to do. There's a vogue for endlessly repetitive 'atmospheric' music at the moment, and I just wonder whether it was a case of 'ctrl-C', 'ctrl-V', 'ctrl-C', 'ctrl-V', 'ctrl-C', 'ctrl-V', 'ctrl-C', 'ctrl-V', 'ctrl-C', 'ctrl-V', 'ctrl-C', 'ctrl-V', 'ctrl-C', 'ctrl-V', 'ctrl-C', 'ctrl-V', 'ctrl-V', 'ctrl-V', 'ctrl-V', 'ctrl-V',... ... ... ... ... zzzzzzzzzzzzz
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I think that I once suggested such a forum to the RSCM, but no joy!
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I am astonished.
Bookmarked already. Looking at the playlist, more ambitious even than PipeDreams!
(Very chuffed. 15 minutes on the Victoria Hall organ today in Hanley. Then the lighting crew needed the hall.)
Ian Ck
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GP tomorrow (followed by a funeral!).
Um... Good luck with both!
Ian CK
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Bringing the subject back to pipe organs, I note that 'Choir and Organ' now has a regular feature on practice organs; this may not be unrelated to comments made by members of this Board (in some cases, on it).
I haven't seen a Mander organ featured yet, but it's surely only a matter of time...
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We sometimes provide the Sunday school kids with a package of percussion instruments for the last hymn - quite fun if it is 'O Happy Day' or 'Blessed be the name of the Lord' etc. (not played on a pipe organ, of course).
However, this morning, the last was 'Unto us is born a Son' - the 'full Willcocks' (the full Monty?) from CfC1 with a different arrangement for each verse, and descant.
So I was faintly disturbed during Communion when 'Infant Holy' and 'Away in a Manger' were accompanied by an increasing chatter and jangle of tambourines.
The first verse of 'Unto Us...' was OK as it is fairly loud but verse 2 (unacc.) was a sleigh ride. The kids were totally unfazed by the parallel 5ths on full swell in verse 3 (which I'm sure would normally terrify Herod) and I consider that they won verse 4 on points when pitted unequally against the ladies and mp manuals.
Which just left verse 5 as a final slugging match. The organ thundered, but impartial observers would consider it a draw.
There's always next year.
Which reminds me, Happy New Year, everyone!
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As the Christmas juggernaut once again begins to barge its way clumsily along the M4 of our lives, may I wish all a happy, or at least tolerable, Christmas to veryone and register my deep gratitude to our hosts, Mander Organs, and to John and Rachel in particular for their continuing to make this facility available. Thanks.
Peter
Less a juggnernaut, more of a toboggan run, we find...
It's cold and frosty, and accelerates more or less out of control
until the bottom is reached - in our case, at lunchtime on Christmas Day.Last night (visiting my 'home parish' in Cheshire) was the snowiest night's carol singing I can remember for decades! Curtailed the route and reached the hot mulled wine by 10pm. Very satisfying. More snow is forecast, to add to this evening's entertainment...
Echo the thanks to Rachel and John.
Merry Christmas one and all! Ian CK
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...and again this morning (and again next week)... [/i]
Our boss asks us to sing an 'Advent Ring Song' with an extra verse each week as an additional candle is lit on the Ring, to the tune of 'The Holly and the Ivy'. As the tune for the chorus is a repeat of the verse, we will have sung and played the same tune 33 times by Christmas morning.
If anyone thinks that this is a good idea, lyrics by PM!
(Personally, I suspect that Patrick's idea has more merit...)
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the Dambusters' March...
Big RAF presence around Lincoln. Waddington, Scampton etc. I remember driving to work up the Lincoln bypass and getting an unexpected Red Arrows display early in the morning.
(They, like us, can't always rehearse quietly and on a small scale)
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I had to start learning new stuff after a gap of 30+ years because my church told me I was giving a recital.
And I couldn't charge admission for music they heard on a Sunday.
I found that marking up fingering is essential, because that is the only way to use the same fingering each time while learning, and if there is inaccurate repetition, the learning is ineffective.
But I only mark sparingly, in pencil. So I can erase incorrect/redundant markings, and if it's there, it's worth taking note of.
My teacher used to mark up in pencil, then pencil with a ring round it, then red ballpoint, then ringed red, then, horror, blue. This meant that there was just too much to read as the music was performed and I'm sure was counterproductive.
And 4-6 weeks to work on anything involving counterpoint is insufficient for me. Learning to a reasonable standard, then returning to it after a gap is a good technique.
Nice to see MM on the Board again!!
Welcome back!
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until the bottom is reached - in our case, at lunchtime on Christmas Day.
Welcome back!
Playing in very cold churches
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Indeed. A fan heater can also shrink parts of the pedalboard, resulting in stuck pedals if the tolerances are tight.
For two hours a day, ever considered something at home?! (Not on Paul's scale, of course.)
Ian CK