An early pondering for 2015

With this year being deliberately free of extraneous commitments bar our annual Christmas Concert I have been planning ahead. I suspect a number of you will be aware of William Lloyd Webber's wonderful Love Divine, all Loves Excelling. The piece comes from a larger work entitled The Good Samaritan. I now have a couple of scores and am considering it as a concert work for us for next year. Along with Heinrich Schutz's The Pharisee and the Publican which has been in your folders for a couple of years now, we might put on a concert with the theme of 'Parables'.

Christmas 2014

No respite for the Director of Music!

Jo Taylor has pointed me in the direction of So gentle the donkey by John Barnard. Having now seen the score it looks lovely, and this will be one of two, possible three, sets of music I shall purchase for us for this year, thanks to your programme sales for our Christmas Concert. The others........ well you'll have to wait a while and see!

Tony

2014 Choir Outing

The coach is booked for the Bluebell Railway - red again! Leaving Green Lane at 9.30am so that people are able to attend Mass on Saturday evening or first thing Sunday morning.

Prayers, please.....

George Norton, Anne Mitra, Madeleine's husband and Mary & Frank Elliott.

February's Quiz Question

How many readings are there, including the Epistle and Gospel, at the Easter Vigil?

Answers to me by the end of the month. I shall have two prizes, depending on who is first out of 'the hat'!!!!

Father Deo's Installation Mass

Well done to you all. Father Deo was delighted, as was I! Thank you all. I'm sorry about the situation at Communion: the 'Ministers' Rota showed a full contingent for distribution Holy Communion, but the priests decided, quite rightly, to keep it to themselves given the number of them. Plusses and a minus! I'll make sure things are clear before Good Friday and the Easter Vigil.

February Mass

Two new pieces to learn  on the next few Tuesdays, one Bach and the other Handel - be there!!

For your coffee breaks

Firstly, courtesy of Jerry Pieti, a great piece of inspiring music and editing HERE

Secondly, a reminder of Love Divine, all Loves Excelling from the Lloyd Webber's aforementioned cantata The Good Samaritan HERE

Thirdly.... I have always had a soft spot for the electronic music of Vangelis (after Tomita, of course!) He wrote the music to the great film 1492: Conquest of Paradise. Listen to the original HERE, an 'organ' transcription HERE and a fine improvisation on the piece by a young man HERE.

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