contrabordun
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Well I like it, am usually moved by it and I think most of the really dreadful moments are down to the words rather than the music (eg rhyming "agony sore...more and more", although Stainer must take the rap for the way that "here in abasement" always comes out). Having said that, I only get it a couple of times a decade - I'd tire of doing it annually.
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I've seen a reluctance to award the top mark in a few situations, and I think it's just nonsense. All it means is that the exams are, de facto, marked out of 149, not the advertised 150. It doesn't even makes sense in its own terms: an award of 150 does not imply that this Grade 1 recorder player is perfect, but simply that he/she has met the stated criteria for top marks in each of the sections.
Given that it seems that the top mark is awardable in each one of the sections individually, what this means is that a candidate's score for one section may depend on how well they'd done in the rest of the exam. Thus a 20/20 Aural performance might only be awarded 18 if that same candidate had happened to ace pieces and the sightreading.
How is that logical or useful?
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I've often wondered how ecclesiastical Powers That Be manage with all of those other aspects of paying for things, where the supplier gets to name the price.
"I'm sorry Mr Plumber, we only pay £25 for a callout"
etc
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Chaconne a son goût !
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If someone who normally performs well - at anything, not necessarily music - suddenly shows an obvious dip in performance the good thing to do is gently to ask them if they can think what may be causing it and offer to help or put them in contact with someone who can help. Criticism without a positive offer to help overcome the problem is useless. This shows that you care about them as people as well as someone who does a job, paid or otherwise. As well as being pastorally good in a church context, and whats good friends would do anyway, it is what gets taught on office mangement courses and, goodness knows, I have sat through enough of those in my time.
This is very true: I thought it was disgraceful (but sadly not surprising) that the official reaction to the situation involved any kind of "dressing down", however mild!
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That's interesting - you'd have thought they'd have supplied something foot-operated for orchestral players to turn the page.
I'd be in favour of digital printed music, but I wouldn't want a touchscreen for page turns. I'd want it wired into the console somehow and available on a piston!
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(Thornbury) - not for everyday use. (Rather OTT)
Yes, but you could say that about the hymn tune itself
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I'll second that recommendation... this sort of thing
And how do we meet the demands of Jehan Alain (or his sister)? Now there’s a problem or two. Firstly Alain wrote his music for a highly idiosyncratic house organ which is unlikely to be reproduced in most churches or even concert halls; secondly his music is all produced in editions by his sister Marie-Claire who says she remembers exactly how her brother played all his music, even though she was only 14 when he died. Moreover she’s not above producing new editions from time to time, presumably whenever her memory gets jogged.has got to be worth a few minutes of your time!
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No idea mate. Is Colin Sell a member of this board? Maybe he might know.
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Can still be found in "Complete Mission Praise" - No 188.
Peter
And Common Praise. It ought to be hymn no 617, but the numbers don't go high enough.
A friend, who probably ought to remain nameless, claims to have succumbed on one occasion to the temptation to, er, play an extended organ introduction to this hymn at a very well known London church.
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Even with CCTV the player would be completely isolated from the choir and would probably have difficulty hearing them. Assessing balance would be a nightmare.
Typical cathedral organ then? (Even if it's technically a parish church).
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but nothing is more cruel than the laws of supply and demand.
True, but it's that same law that (let's assume that today there is 30% surplus capacity in the British Organbuilding world) ensures there is not 300% surplus capacity, at which point this advert would be offering national minimum wage (or even, some 'self employed' scam to pay below it).
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Does anybody have any experience of using MIDI out/in sockets to record music for later playback through the organ? In my case there is a toaster involved, but I guess many recent pipe organ consoles with electric action will also have MIDI facilities.
I'm thinking of two main situations
1 - so I can pre-record the items for a service when I'm on holiday
2 - for accompanied anthems where I really need to be in front of the choir
The obvious pitfall is the inflexibility of a pre-recorded accompaniment - is this horrendous, or manageable? What other problems might crop up?
What equipment will I need? I've found something on the web with a USB plug at one end and 2 MIDI connectors (presumably in and out?) at the other, so I guess that connects me to a laptop. I assume one can get record/playback software for the laptop?
thanks
Paul
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The triple pedalling looks fearsome on the page, but it's not actually that hard to play, you just need flexible ankles and a decent length of heel. I found other parts of this piece much more challenging to learn, such as some of the manual changes, which I think would be much easier with a French manual layout (GO/Pos/Recit).
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I remember it still...........
"Piano: it's the way you put your fingers ON the keys; Organ: it's way you take them OFF."
DW
Some of us are still more worried about where, not how we put our fingers on the keys
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@Organist12345 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbGjBt3X4qk...feature=related
It's the youtube comments I liked.
Apparently it was tuned in "so-called unequal temperature"
An alternative theory suggests that "maybe she didn't tune the organ very good. There is usually a dial on the side".
It really is a truly amazing sound.
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Looks like Bidder 11 is going to be doing a lot hand-registering practice, if nothing else...
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I once played a piece called Stoccata (also by Vidor). Which I think is actually quite a good title for it.
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.....or have I totally missed the point?
John Mander is kind enough to provide the forum. If he feels that a contribution may cause him embarrassment in front of his professional colleagues (as he might, if the forum were to become a vehicle for criticism of those colleagues) then that, surely, is enough?
But Cynic, don't leave!
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Really ? so where will the money come from to build the new organ the UK or abroad ?
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Just to say that it is their organ their money is nonsense, because the majority of funding will be provided by us., so we do have the right to make a comment.
Well most of it seems to be coming as a result of Elton John's concert. But since it is public knowledge that the builder is foreign, anybody who contributes does so knowingly and can withhold a donation if they would have preferred a British builder. So by definition, all those contributing to the project do approve of the choice (or, more likely, don't care either way), and if there are enough of them then the instrument will get built. What right has anybody to complain if a few tens of thousands of people decide between them to cough up enough money to build an organ by any firm they like?
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Surely, if a new organ is to be built, particularly in a concert hall or, in this case, the RAM., it is not outside the capabilities of a BRITISH ORGAN BUILDER, to come up with the goods and build an instrument capable of covering all types of repertoire.
Of course it isn't. But that doesn't preclude the possibility that the RAM found a foreign builder more aligned to what they wanted.
Anyway, it's their money, their organ. Why should anybody else care what they do with it?
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Well, logically, that would also prevent English builders from exporting, there being competent organbuilders in most of the countries of the world where organs are commissioned.
I hope you don't drive a French or a German or an American car, or use a Chinese-built PC to browse the Mander forum (itself hosted on servers most likely designed in the US and manufactured in the far east)?
IMO, it's up to the customer to decide what he wants and choose the supplier he thinks best able to provide it for the money he's got.
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I would have add Naji Hakim as well, if he had not been fired from La Trinité....
I'm not sure this is strictly correct - the version I heard, from a source I believe would have good access to the facts was that the decision to leave was Hakim's.
Easter Greetings
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RC Church of Our Lady & St Kenelm, Halesowen
Palm Sunday morning:
Hosanna to the Son of David - English plainsong setting
Responsorial Psalm - Dutson
Mass setting - English plainsong
Anthem - Hosianna dem Sonne David - Telemann
(organ only used for accompanying the hymns during Lent)
Maundy Thursday:
English plainsong mass setting, + Murray Gloria with organ 'fanfare' [i don't do improvising, so it was actually the last page of Cocker's Tuba Tune!] between the intonation and the Gloria itself. No more organ at all until Saturday night now.
Responsorial Psalm - Hodgetts
Ubi caritas - plainsong..square notes'n'all
Motet - Ave verum - Byrd
Pange Lingua
Good Friday:
Responsorial Psalm - Hodgetts
Reproaches - Victoria
Christus Factus Est - Cannicciari
Easter Vigil (same music @ Easter morning)
lots of responsorial psalms
Murray Mass setting, with another 'fanfare' after the Gloria intonation, (probably end of Vierne I Final).
Stanford - Why Seek Ye
H.Smart - Postlude
Evening
Off to St Paul's Birmingham to play Blessed Be the G&F for Mr Carr (see above). Hopefully this year he won't have to phone Mrs Contrabordun on Easter Monday afternoon to substantiate my account of why I didn't get home until 1.30am...