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Andrew Butler

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  1. The church where I will be playing on Easter Day in rural France, always have a group playing traditional instruments to play the "voluntaries" at Easter. I just get to accompany the usual (often liturgically-incorrect) drivel.
  2. What's the latest re Wells? I saw a comment about an appointment on Facebook but can't find it now.......
  3. Phhoenix' UK website hasn't been updated since about 2008......
  4. I never noticed that "clipping" but it reminds me that I never liked Philip Ledger's habit of only leaving one beat between verses.
  5. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
  6. No sung Vespers in this part of the Charente! I used to play Evensong at least twice a month in the UK pre-COVID plus cathedral visits (mainly Canterbury)
  7. Depends on the occasion - Easter Day and a Thursday evening in November are totally different.....
  8. My late father was a Unitarian minister in Gateacre, Liverpool. From a very early age I was fascinated by the organ in Gateacre Chapel (it's on NPOR) and this fascination grew as I got older. On moving to Wilmslow in Cheshire, I began piano lessons at age 7, and having access to organs in dad's churches I started to teach myself! I started proper lessons at 10 (when I played my first service) On moving to Bristol, lessons continued - although I squandered the opportunities offered. I took up music full time in 1987, having been made redundant from a managerial post in business, holding a succession of paid church posts and supplementing my income with private teaching. I now live in France in semi-retirement, doing some online teaching and also I am a registered celebrant for weddings and funerals, as well as playing in various local churches in the Charente region. (For which payment even of expenses is non-existant! Another topic brewing there!!)
  9. Oh absolutely! I get enough of that playing at church here - I've learned to have manuscript paper with me to transcribe things before services that the cantor hums to me because they haven't got the music!
  10. I've just PM'd you - I've been asked to play the Vangelis piece and am looking for a copy!!
  11. Seeing Nigel Day's reference to High Pavement Unitarian Church,Nottingham, reminds me of a Facebook conversation I had with Stanley a couple of years ago. I mentioned as an aside, that, having myself been brought up as a Unitarian, some theological point he had made in a blog post was "very Unitarian" He replied "Oh, splendid!!"
  12. Absolutely splendid. The Abbey music is in the safest of hands with AN. The weakest link for me was Bryn Terfel I'm afraid. With so much talent in the "back row" too..... Did anyone else notice Huw Edwards' two gaffs? (The two I noticed anyway - there may have been more!)
  13. Allan Wicks playing "Transports de Joie" on the old Willis at Canterbury...... Clifford Harker playing "Sarabande for the Morning of Easter" at Bristol.....
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