Peter Clark
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Jerusalem (to other words) and I heard the Voice... (Kingsfold) are both in the much-maligned Mission Praise.
... Sunbeam: could I suggest listening and busking?
BTW - I see Mission Praise is now in a black edition, with another 100+ songs... the previous one barely fits on the music desk!!
The choir would need weightlifting exercises!
Sunbeam I have now got as a pdf from another forum but not sure which tune they want for I heard the Voice so an embarrassing few moments will be spent tomorrow humming the alternatives down the phone.
But isn't this forum just great for this sort of thing?
Many thanks for your responses.
Peter
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For "I heard the voice of Jesus say": one of these tunes? http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/i/h/iheardtv.htm
And for the Sunbeam: http://www.biblestudycharts.com/CH_Jesus_W..._A_Sunbeam.html
Hope this helps,
Dick
Thanks Dick: I'll do some hasty trasncribing tomorrow!
Peter
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In desperation - I have to play a funeral Monday at 10.00 am and they want "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam" and "I heard the voice of Jesus say" neither of which I can get my hands on - any help? (They also want Jerusalem (Parry))
Deus in ajdutorium meum intende
Peter
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Went to Liverpool a few weeks ago and found a recital in the Met. William Mathias's name popped into my head, and I fished out Invocations when I got home. Why does no-one play it now, or is it one of those pieces that just needs to be brought back onto the collective radar ?
AJS
I got my copy out with a view to relearning it - I last played it about 15 years ago! It is one of those old OUP editions, green cover with staves and the cover price? A princely £3.95!!
P
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'Agree with this!
A
I didn't see the apparently controversial exchange but your contributions have always been interesting, Paul; so whatever you decide, best wishes.
Peter
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Perhaps the word "Royal" tickled the fancy of Elton.
Colin Richell
According to Choir and Organ Elton John had a scholarship to the Academy when at school and this is a way of publically and practically showing his gratitude for his early musical education there.
Peter
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My understanding about copyright law is that there are two 'exceptions' when photocopies are allowed, one is to aid in page turning, and the other when a copy of a score is lost shortly before a performance and it is not possible to get a replacement at such notice, provided the replacement is purchased immediately a source is available. Page turning isn't restricted to choral accompaniment, or indeed organ music. A former member of this forum is much more well versed in this than I!
Jonathan
Thanks Jonathan. I also understand that it is permitted to make copies of, say, an anthem so that the choir can start learning it provided you have ordered copies from the publisher and that you will destroy your photocopies when the published editiions arrive. The same former member, I think, discusses this in his book.
Peter
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Is there a rule about making photocopies of a page from a score you have bought to get around the problem of awkward turns? I omce attended a seminar when the speaker said that it was OK for organists when accompanying choral music to copy pages if necessary to assist this and I therefore assume it is OK to do the same for organ pieces.
Peter
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Superb playing. But I am puzzled; either the minister is extremely big or Paul Jacobs is extremely small. The minister towers over PJ.
What denomination is Crystal Cathedral? (I've nver heard of it before.) I notice that Paul Jacobs is very careful to avoid calling Messiaen a Catholic.
Malcolm
Information about the church can be found here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Cathedral
with a link to details about the organ.
Peter
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I wonder if anyone can suggest, please, whether there are any websites with free downloadable transposition exercises for organists? I have gone through my Sumsion, Wilkinson, Lang, Hunt (etc) books and have started them over again. Hymnbooks tend to have too much that is familiar for a church organist. I need fresh material, although I suppose Bach chorales would provide some challenges! There is no real music shop in the town where I live - in fact in a town of 18 000 I am the only organist and have the only church choir . . . but where I am organist I can at least enjoy practising on either a 1922, 40 stop Willis, and a single manual 1845 Bevington. It's amazing what kind of instruments reach Australia! The 'free downloadable' part is because I am basically a freelance professional musician, and that can have an interesting effect on income . . . Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
The Werrner Icking Music Archive and the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) offer free downloads of music over a very wide range, and I am sure than you could find a lot of music on these sites for transposition - by the way, are you working towards an exam or is this for personal satisfaction? Whatever, good luck (and welcome to this forum!)
Peter
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There is also a delightful and quite simple Canzonetta in one of the OUP compilations.
Peter
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Went to Liverpool a few weeks ago and found a recital in the Met. William Mathias's name popped into my head, and I fished out Invocations when I got home. Why does no-one play it now, or is it one of those pieces that just needs to be brought back onto the collective radar ?
AJS
Yes another fine piece from Mathias. Unfortunately little seems to be known of his organ music other than Processional and Toccata Giocosa which crop up fairly regularly in recitals.
Peter
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I'll be returning to the UK for a couple of weeks later this year and amongst other things, hope to travel around to visit a few local organs.
Would anyone be able to point me in the direction of a few interesting instruments worth visiting in the East Sussex/Kent area?
I may also attempt to go and see the Hammerwood Park instrument mentioned on another thread if possible.
Many thanks in advance,
VA
How about wandering over to Cardiff?
P
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Glad you liked it! It's quite an earworm, as they say :angry:
Yeas, a terrific piece which I think is much more sophisticated that the earler Processional (though that's great fun too). I have been looking at his Antiphones lately which I am considering learning, and which I reckon to be a lot more profound - does anybody have experiences of that piece? (I suspect this calls for a new thread...)
Peter
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Try this!
with links to related videos...
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Not quite Notre Dame, but a few years ago Mrs H. and I were on holiday in a village in North Devon and attended the morning service. There was a nice bright two manual organ and after the voluntary I wandered up to the console for a look and spoke to the lady organist who asked if I played. I replied with my usual, "I used to to a bit but haven't played regularly for a while now", whereupon she said something along the lines of, "I don't suppose you're free tonight, I've got a family problem and can't make it or find a substitute, so it will be a said evensong."
What could one do?! It was just 4 hymns, a psalm or two, accompanied responses and a voluntary at each end, so I stepped in having spent a pleasant hour or so practicing during the afternoon. The earthly reward was from the vicar - a couple of pints and a bag of crisps in the local across the road after the service.
Fingers crossed MAB (not that I'd wish JPL to suffer a family crisis!).
P
This kind if thing is not as rare as it might seem, I think. Once when on holiday I went to the local church for Mass and asked afterwards to look at the organ. It wasn't much to write home about but the upshot was that I was aked if I would be here on Saturday and could I possibly play for a wedding!
Peter
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A few years ago we had a week's break in Margate. Jane had been a month or so before, and unknown to me had gone to Catnterbury, asked to see David Flood, and arranged for me to have some time at the cathedral organ. We went to Canterbury on the second or third day of our trip and visited the cathedral. She wandered off saying she needed to make a quick call and I meandered around the building. A few minutes later she appeared with David Flood; he opened the door to the organ loft and took us up. He said he couldn't stay around but trusted me with the instrument, asking only that I remember to close the door after I had finished. I had a wonderful hour or so. A very gracious gesture from a charming man.
Peter
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Try this - not YouTube - but just a little spooky...............keep your eye on the swell pedal!
A
PS It took a bit of time to load here so be patient!
Thanks for this - how was it done? Any more where that one came from? Why was the swell box closed after the piece had finished???
Peter
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I wonder why, however, Crawford transcribed it in B major? I always thought it was in B flat...
Peter
http://michaelsmusicservice.com/music/Gers...sodyInBlue.html
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Has anyone used these folk - in the USA? I found some interesting pieces on their website, ordered and had a nice email and refund when they charged too much for postage!
A
Wow! Just looked at the Rhapsody in Blue and it looks good. I played this when I was learning piano but this arrangement looks very programmable.
Peter
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I don't have the music but as the original Borodin must be out of copyright by now (in the UK) you can possibly find a piano version of the original string quartet somewhere on the web to busk from.
Good luck.
Thanks, I just found a cello/piano version on IMSLP which should do the trick!
Peter
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Someone has asked for this for a wedding on Friday and I would be happy to oblige as he's a regular Mass attender who is tyin g the knot for the first time at 72 to a 66 yeard old widow! I thought I had it but can't find it anywhere, and I'm sure that someone out there has had to play it - any chance of a PDF or similar (which will be destyroyed afterwards)? Thanks.
Peter
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Langlais' Incantation pour un jour Saint uses six different plainsong fragments from the Litany of the Saints, used in the Holy Saturday liturgy. I'm not totally convinced by the link with the Dupré, and Sue Kirkland argues in Organists' Review (May 2005) that there is a link between Langlais' Incantation and Alain's Litanies. If anything, one could put forward a case for *Litanies* being influenced by the [Cortège et] Litanie.
That being the case, could we argue for a granfather-father-son relationship between the three pieces, Cortege et Litanie (1922) fathering Litanies (1937) which in turn fathered Incantation pour un jour Saint (1949)?
Peter
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What the heck's going on with immigration? I had no idea that visiting organists were being banned from giving recitals in the UK, that's hardly going to inspire people overseas to accept invitations for recitals any more
And by the same token will UK-based organists find it harder to give recitals elsewhere?
Help For A Funeral On Monday
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They'd already printed the order of service before either the priest or I had seen it.... something we're going to crack down on here.
P