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8 minutes ago, Dafydd y Garreg Wen said:
Pity they chose the wrong tune for Dyma gariad fel y moroedd 😉😉😉
Maybe Rowan Williams, who knows a thing or two about hymns, music, and Welsh, has a different opinion.
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You’ve made me think that what the world needs, if it doesn’t already exist, is an organ fantasia on themes from West Side Story. Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet could be amazing on the organ. As an aside did I hear the presenter on Radio 3 this morning say that the composer of the Merry Wives of Windsor Overture was Nicolai Otto?
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21 hours ago, Rowland Wateridge said:
In summary, it appears that finance will not be a problem, but there will be considerable administrative detail to be worked out and decided. It’s not likely to happen very soon!
I think the finances of Christ Church are in a much less healthy state than they were 6 or 7 years ago. The Martyn Percy affair has been both expensive in legal fees and settlements but also hugely costly in reputational terms. Alumnae, especially from the US, take a very dim view of the way the Governing Body has handled everything.
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I like to hear the organist improvising skilfully and very gradually getting louder so that the Dean’s wife (or husband) has to speak louder and louder to her friend and then the organ stops without warning so the entire congregation hear “with a red wine ragôut …”.
But a Howells Psalm Prelude is generally excellent pre-Evensong fare; especially the one dedicated to Dykes-Bower.
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On 05/10/2023 at 19:21, Colin Pykett said:
As much as ten years ago I was being told of theatre producers making casting decisions based on which contender for a role had more followers on Twitter. I see that Anna Lapwood has 100k subscribers on YouTube. The hugely successful violinists Two Set Violin have over 4 million YouTube subscribers but that success comes at a cost; they have been open about the challenges this has involved for their mental health. I’m not sufficiently au fait with Instagram and TikTok to find the numbers there!
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21 hours ago, Damian Beasley-Suffolk said:
The misogyny and ad hominem (ad feminam?) comments on that well-known other site are appalling. Adding to the general daily nonsense there, why would anyone feel at all attracted to the organ and the art of organ music, especially when many of the commenters are, apparently, church organists? And many of the same lament falling attendances, the closure of churches and consequent loss of many fine instruments. There are always those who knock the successful, presumably disdainful of those who combine ability with a strong work ethic, a peculiarly British disease. Many are apparently not aware of the particularly unwanted and threatening attention that young lady has had to bear. The only (almost) funny part of that is that on FB the churlish reveal themselves for who and what they are. Fortunately I am not on FB, as being retired and beholden to nobody I would not hesitate to take them to task, which would give me great delight though cause much trouble.
I have never met AL, but her enthusiastic influence is tangible and deserves admiration, nurture, and support, especially of all those she attracts to the instrument and its music. More power to her elbow! In the meantime, I have only just discovered the organ works of Florence Price who counted Alexandre Guilmant among her admirers, so there is work to be done.
Couldn’t agree more, Damian.
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1 hour ago, sbarber49 said:
I thought that the psalm was introduced in Series 2 (it wasn't in Series one).
I don't think there has ever been a formal instruction about the Doxology after the psalm at the Eucharist but as the RSCM puts it (in its Music for Common Worship 1) "It is customary to omit the doxology at the end of the psalm after the first reading at Holy Communion".
Thanks, all, for your responses.
Were there hymns in Series one?
If it is customary to omit something the implication is that it’s something that would otherwise be there. Not sure how that changes anything!
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It’s a long time ago now but I’m fairy sure that we always sang a psalm as the Gradual at our weekly Holy Communion service and we always sang a Gloria Patri after it. This was at a post-war church on a post-war council estate on the edge of Derby in the years before the introduction of Series 2. We used a small green book for the Order of Holy Communion which had the rubrics in red. We were above half way up the candle; some of the congregation left when the vicar introduced incense but private confession was always available. My father, the organist, had been a chorister at St Michael’s, Tenbury.
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Trinity College, Cambridge, appoints Steven Grahl. A significant loss to Christ Church, Oxford, in my opinion.
https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/news/trinity-appoints-steven-grahl-director-of-music/
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On 27/06/2023 at 12:07, iy45 said:
Radio 3 Choral Evensong from Lincoln Cathedral on 5th April marks the 400th Anniversary of Byrd's death.
I wonder who thought it appropriate that the introit be Byrd's "Sing Joyfully".
Ian
Although it’s an anniversary of someone’s death I think we may now sing joyfully that Byrd’s music is known, performed and loved by millions of people around the world so many centuries after it was written. The introit may also refer to the Feast of St Thomas celebrated on July 3rd.
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I think this is an interesting line of inquiry but is, perhaps, a slightly “keyboard-centric” view. The development of counterpoint in church music from the Ars Antiqua, through the Ars Nova and Machaut, to Landini and a world of parallel sixths and thirds with contrary motion at cadences would seem to be very much based on the sound world of singing, where temperament had different parameters.
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Something that has always worried me in Litanies is the pattern that starts on the last two bars of this screen grab [from a self-published edition on IMSLP—the piece is now public domain in Europe and Canada]. The registration implies that the Pos. is louder/more present than the Récit but in these two bars that would take away the 3+3+2 rhythm and make it sound (to anybody not looking at the score as thought the Pos. and Ped. are on the beat and it’s a straight 4/4 pattern with the first two Rec. quavers being an upbeat. Can anyone explain what the intention is here?
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There are four Singing Scholarships and two Instrumental Scholarships available at St James’s Church, Piccadilly, London UK—closing date for application May 30, 2023 at 9am.
https://www.sjp.org.uk/about-music-arts-ideas/music-scholars/
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I have had Public Liability Insurance through membership of the Musicians’ Union for decades. The last time I looked it was for up to £10million. One of the many benefits of union membership.
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36 minutes ago, pwhodges said:
I recall that transposed continuo parts have survived for some Bach cantatas, so that might not be decisive.
Paul
Yes, but why not use the big church organ, as I think we know Bach did on occasion.
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I just came across this instrument. I wish there were more pictures! But is this the type of instrument that I have read many commentators say is not historically accurate in performance of, for example, Bach cantatas? I know the page says this organ is pitched at “Chorton” so wouldn’t be particularly practical for using with orchestral instruments. Apologies if a similar topic already exists; a search on “box organ” didn’t produce anything relevant.
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10 hours ago, Tony Newnham said:
my scanner is no more. I could try & photograph the relevant pages if that's any help, or if it can wait until next week I might be able to coax some life into an old scanner/printer.
If you have a smart phone you should be able to get a very decent scanning app for it that will produce very good quality scans,
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£1000 for the use of the Royal Festival Hall for a couple of hours doesn’t seem excessive, in my opinion.
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15 hours ago, handsoff said:
I have seen in a TV listing that a piano for use by anyone has been placed in a London terminus railway station and which is "secretly" monitored by well-known professional players with the aim of giving the best players an opportunity for on-screen publicity.
What a great shame it is that this wasn't done with the organ in London Bridge station with the accompanying chance to further general appreciation of the instrument and give the TV watching public who would rarely hear an organ some idea of the skills involved in playing one.
The pianos have been in stations for many years. The organ in London Bridge has only been there a few months. This kind of TV programme would have taken at least two years to get from initial idea through commissioning, funding and contracting, to final filming, editing and scheduling.The TV piano programme was able to maintain national relevance by having different programmes filmed in stations across the UK. AFAIK there is only one organ in a UK station.
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2 hours ago, Keitha said:
The system is mainly to enable the organist to "have visuals on"(ie 'see'!) the 5 parts of the church where we have liturgical actions which cannot be seen from the console.
I’d be interested in knowing how your plans come to fruition. I’ve played a few cathedral organs where there are quite sophisticated CCTV systems with a number of fixed and moveable cameras. As a very temporary visitor I had to rely on the resident staff turning the system on and I didn’t dare try to adjust anything. Is the ideal to have just one screen for the organist (for neatness) which can be set to a single camera or switched to any combination of cameras in split-screen? 5 separate screens would make me feel like a security guard!
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20 hours ago, MikeK said:
Trying to follow a conductor whose beat can be seconds ahead of you is fraught with difficulties. Cannot a ‘stand alone’ analogue system be installed?
I remember the very early days of digital CCTV involved significant delays although I don’t think it was often more than half a second. But the A/D and D/A convertors are much quicker these days and such systems are now used without difficulty in eg West End and Broadway musicals where precise timing is crucial.
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On 04/01/2023 at 18:54, David Cynan Jones said:
Announcement of current Assistant at Guildford, Richard Moore as Assistant at Christ Church Cathedral Oxford from Easter.
https://twitter.com/ChChCathedralOx/status/1610643431683985413
and from the Christ Church Cathedral Website
And the Guildford vacancy is advertised on the Church Times site this morning.
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55 minutes ago, Martin Cooke said:
That's right, Rowland - such a pity... and so misguided, in my view. As you say, it's not just the loss of the AV and the BCP, but the blinkered adoption of the Eucharist as the main service. I simply don't understand how this came to pass. Surely we all grew up with a Sung Eucharist on the 1st and 5th Sundays and Matins on the others. (And the term 'Holy Communion' seems to have been dropped also. I realise I am speaking very personally, but it is very much my opinion that this uncompromising use of Eucharistic services is hugely off-putting to people. I find this especially on Christmas Day when, having had a Midnight Communion, and then probably an 8.00am services, the 'main' morning service ends up as a Communion. Every year, one-timers pop in in family groups and what they need is to sing some carols and hear the familiar words of some of the readings from the AV. 'And there were in the same country, shepherds...' 'And there shall come forth a rod...' 'The people that walked in darkness...' and all the rest, not some awful re-telling in ghastly pseudo politically-correct language that nobody recognises and has no chance of being remembered or recalled. We had it this morning in the otherwise very lovely service from Westminster Abbey. Fabulous singing... familiar texts to the psalm and the Benedictus, but then an adaptation of the words 'we all know' from I Corinthians 15 - 'Behold, I tell you a mystery.' But, of course, this was changed to 'Listen, I tell you a mystery.' Do the people who initiate changes like this think we are not capable to understanding what the word, 'Behold' might mean? It is all so demeaning and lacking in quality and dignity. It just makes me feel sad, I'm afraid.
What we “all grew up with” is, to a degree, insignificant. That you are sad is a shame. Before the Reformation the Mass was celebrated daily and the Office was essentially monastic and for the devotions of the clergy. The language of worship had been exclusively in Latin (with the occasional phrase of Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew). Cranmer and his fellow reformers substituted a modern-language version of the liturgy and the scriptures with an emphasis on the Office, refashioned into a twice-daily worship with the Psalter being read every month rather than the 7-times-a-day worship with a weekly recitation of the Psalms. The BCP provides that confirmed members of the church should receive communion at least three times a year. Nowadays there is a wide range of theological, liturgical and ecclesiological opinion on the form that public worship should take and it would be surprising if we all thought the same. God in her infinite wisdom has appointed Bishops, Priests and Laity to positions of authority in the Church of England which has resulted in the broad menu of liturgy available throughout the year and on special occasions. But, and I realise I am not practising what I preach, I feel that this forum isn't really the place for airing our personal feelings about matters that are hardly core to our enjoyment of the pipe organ and its world in sacred and secular music.
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On 05/08/2022 at 16:20, Adnosad said:
The A major sonata is outstanding as well as the introduction and Interlude from his " Symphonic Variations " ( IMHO only ) to name just two works.
I love the A major sonata and have accompanied not only violinists but also cellists and, I kid you not, flautists in performances.
The Dm Symphony is less successful, imo. Peter Warlock had the right idea, I think. I was once criticised by a guest for playing this on the piano as background music for breakfast in a 5* Cairo hotel:
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Which contradicts your earlier claim.