peeweeel
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Peter King will return to Lichfield for a Festival recital
(http://www.lichfieldfestival.org/blog/2011/04/18/peter-king/)
Friday 8th July, at 12 noon
Chapelle de Guillaume Tell - Liszt
Prelude and Fugue in E minor - Mendelssohn
Sposalizio - Liszt
Two Canons from opus 56: v in B minor, vi in B - Schumann
Fantasia and Fugue on “Ad nos, ad salutarem undam” - Liszt
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At weddings? 'Dear Lord and Father of mankind, forgive our foolish ways'?? 'Breathe through the heats of our desire thy coolness and thy balm, Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire......'????
I remember playing it at a wedding only once, at Bangor PC, Co. Down, a wedding made even more memorable when the best man fainted during the vows and sent an enormous flower arrangement crashing to the floor.
T'was popular for weddings at a former Church where my wife was choirmistress. Severe "no sniggers" warnings to choristers were always needed.
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Yes, it's Tim Johnson, currently Director of Music at Westminster School.
Ralph Allwood's brother, Peter, is resigning as Head of Lichfield Cathedral School in July in order to do other things, I think mainly musical. Perhaps an Allwood brothers business?
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Unless the Ordinariate changes such things, I should imagine the Bishop of Shrewsbury (whose Diocese includes Shropshire and Cheshire) would be quite cross if the Bishop of Chester attempted to make appointments within the Roman Cathoilc Church in the area.
Pedants who live in glass houses...
Quite right - Apologies.
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Yes, Jim, I readily agrre with your words. I confess to overlooking Father Paul who as well being musically knowledgable also has a lovely sense of humour. What an excellent choice the Bishop of Shrewsbury made when appointing Fr Paul to St Werburgh's.
PEDANT MODE on!
The Bishop of Shrewsbury is an Area Bishop in Lichfield Diocese. I would think that Fr Paul was appointed by the Bishop of Chester.
PEDANT MODE off.
I'm glad that it was such a satisfactory event.
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...and doubling the amount of organ music broadcast by the BBC in 2010.
There was a piece on today's Today about cathedral music and the outreach programme helping less well-off families to place their children in cathedral schools.
Link here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsi...000/9329829.stm
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Just a word of caution: most cathedral choirs and organists are on holiday from 18 July to the first full week in September so if there is choral music it will be from visiiting choirs.
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what we've all been waitig for!
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I ccould have waited a little longer.
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Recitals at Lichfield Cathedral, 7.30 pm:
Tomorrow (12 October) Martyn Rawles, Cathedral Organist, "Musical portraits of Paris and London" - including Mozart, Vierne, Vaughan Williams. £10 with CCTV of the Organist's socks and interval wine/soft drink.
9th November "Many hands play light works" Reqests and multi player pieces from the four cathedral organ players: Martyn Rawles, Nigel Argust and Ben & Cathy Lamb. Also £10.
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Christ Church, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex
Saturday 30th October at 7.30 pm
Prof. Ian Tracey (Liverpool Cathedral) plays the 150th Anniversary Organ Recital
Walter (known as Harry) Goss-Custard (1871-1964), the first Organist of Liverpool Cathedral from 1917 until 1955, was born in St Leonards and was the son of Walter Goss-Custard, Organist at Christ Church from 1864 (when the Old Christ Church was only just in use) until his death in 1907.
Organ Info: http://www.christchurchstleonards.org/html...ebpage&id=4
Tickets £10 (to include a glass of wine)
I was taken to meet Harry Goss-Custard in 1948 at his house by the cathedral when visiting my uncle in Birkenhead. I just remember that he seemed a very old man! (I was nine). My grandfather was first Sub-Dean of Liverpool in the mid 20s and uncle had been allowed to sit in the organ loft.
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Hi
I don't know if both shows were recorded by the same crews - especially as they are produced by different BBC departments and have very different technical requirements, although I suppose it's possible.
Regular SoP viewers will have noted some repetition of venues a couple of months or so apart - that's because on occasions they have recorded material for 2 shows at the same session (as recently with the 2 broadcasts from Southwark Cathedral - one of my sons sings in the one of the local choirs that was recruited as part of the "congregation".
Every Blessing
Tony
We have had both SoP and Antiques Roadshow at Lichfield. The SoP recordings with congregations were done on succesive nights in November 2006, one for Christmas and one for Easter. We had to rehearse on the days before and wear "spring" clothing for the Easter "show". They also recorded non-congregational items at other times with the Choir, Chamber Choir and a visiting duo "Opera Babes" of whom least said the better! These were used as inserts and also to make a third SoP programme "Saints and Angels" transmitted in the following June. Aled Jones came back several times to do intros and linking pieces to camera for the last one. Jonathan Edwards did the first two before he dropped SoP.
The Antiques Roadshow team were around setting up for about a week one May with the recording on the Saturday. Transmission was the first of that autumn season. It seems to be tradition to start each series from a large church.
I don't think that they would have been able to use the same crew and sets for both shows simultaneously but Aled Jones could easily "drop in" for links and chat.
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That's the problem when a lovely cathedral, (which Lichfield is), just ranks outside the top half dozen such as York, Winchester, Lincoln (etc), and where the city is quite average.
I suppose the dream ticket would be the sort of wealthy benefactors such buildings once had, but these people are rare these days.
I'm afraid we may never see the return of the likes of Lord Grimshaw, who re-built the burned out shell of Selby Abbey from out of his own pocket!
There's a lot to be said for heritage funding and government care of historic buildings, but there's not much chance of that in the present circumstances.
MM
We have had a few wealthy benefactors recently and some English Heritage funding but one reason for Lichfield's current problems was the collapse of a Heritage Lottery Fund application which HLF could not fund when their allocation was reduced to fund the Olympics. HLF had previously told us to ask for more than our original application. Ironically the major cost at the moment is the repair of the East End stonework and the 16C Herkenrode glass which arrived in 1802 as the result of a generous near gift (£200 for seven large windows).
Getting back to appointments! - Ben and Cathy Lamb have moved into Phil Scriven's old house which leaves the Assistant's house available for letting. No Choral Scholars this year (£10,000 saved) and another house to let.
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I've wandered into churches in Holland and seen art exhibitions, photographic exhibitions, people practising for concerts: even one church being set out with tables and chairs for a banquet.
MM
All things (including the banquets) that we have done in Lichfield Cathedral for many years but we still need £millions more to keep the building in a fit condition.
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Wed 11th at 1.10 Martyn Rawles in Lichfield Cathedral. Free with retiring collection.
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We do have Area Deans in the Roman Catholic church - look in your Diocesan Directory! - though quite what they do in either the Church of England or the Roman Church is beyond me!
Try this:
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A & M New Standard was the last A & M before Common Praise. It included 333 hymns from A & M Revised and the 200 Hymns for Today.
I have emailed my son to see if he is interested in the offer. (He's in Bath)
He's interested. I've PM'd Tromba.
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Are they the latest version? I get confused with how many edition of A&M there are. Only on Saturday I found the edition (underneath the Bourdon chest of my 1898 J W Walker organ) I wanted which contained the Hymn tune 'Freshwater', which no other hymn book has, maybe. So having scrapped A&M what does Tromba propose to get instead?-Hymns old and New? Actually Common Praise is a good one - there are some nice tunes in that like Coe Fen etc.
All best
JT
A & M New Standard was the last A & M before Common Praise. It included 333 hymns from A & M Revised and the 200 Hymns for Today.
I have emailed my son to see if he is interested in the offer. (He's in Bath)
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Nigel Argust, Hon. Assistant organist, Lichfield Cathedral, 1.10 pm tomorrow (Wednesday). Retiring collection.
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Thanks Graham - one other question which as I am not Anglican I am unsure of the answer. Do archdeacons traditionally wear a pectoral cross?
Peter
gosh, my grammar and syntax went haywire there!
It's not normal. I've known a few and never seen them wear a pectoral cross.
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Organists who already own the Priory DVD made on the Liverpool organ will have admired Ian Tracey’s playing of the Bach Chaconne and might themselves have a sought a copy of Walter Henry Goss-Custard’s arrangement. Although his brother Reginald published around forty items, the Liverpool Cathedral organist (1915 - 55) only printed a couple of chants and some settings of the canticles (I don’t think custard in a flat is among them!). David Rogers verdi6@talktalk.net
Tangential!
I remember visiting Harry Goss-Custard in 1949 with my uncle who was a curate in Birkenhead at the time and whose father was first Sub-Dean at Liverpool. I don't remember any detail (I was 10) but he lived just by the Cathedral and seemed very old. I realise now that he was 78 and still had 6 years to serve although I expect that Noel Rawsthorne was playing most of that time.
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..... Let alone Employment Law.
DW
You can rest assured that the legal side was very carefully covered. Lichfield is in a very parlous financial situation and the Music Department was the last to be tackled. All three were warned that they would need to apply for jobs. The present solution will cut costs.
Phil seems to be genuinely delighted with his move to Cranleigh and the chance to do more freelance work.
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Philip Scriven played this last night at Lichfield and though I wasn't there a friend was and she reported hightly favourably on it. I've thought of getting the score but the only source I can find on google is Michael Music in the USA for which the postage is about the same price as the score; is there anywhere in the UK where it might be got? Indeed does anyone here play it?
Cheers
Peter
Yes it was an interesting and well received evening. He called it "and all that jazz". It included a couple of Firebird movements, Locklair's "Rubrics" and Barber's Adagio for Strings as well as his own transcription of Bernstein's Candide overture.
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Sorry Paul, yes yours is 12.10. The Bower Carnival procession will be passing through The Close between 1.00 and 1.30!
Thanks, Paul, for an excellent recital. It was good to put a face to the name. I'm glad that the Bower parade didn't intrude!
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Philip Scriven has been appointed Organist in Residence at Cranleigh School, Surrey and will leave Lichfield Cathedral at the end of term. The appointment will enable him to extend his freelance work.
The cathedral Chapter will announce plans concerning the Directorship of Music "in the fullness of time".
American Organs
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In the 1940s my parents gave my late Grandfather's American Organ to St Mary's Tynings Lane Church in Aldridge, Staffs. I felt quite proud to be singing hymns in Sunday School accompanied by it. How long it lasted I don't know as we moved away in 1948.