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Thank you so much for all you did over Holy week and Easter I was absolutely delighted with the way things went, as were the priests and the many others who spoke to me. Your attendance was fantastic, and it really helped make things go well. Well done to Jane and Rosemary with the Plainchant/Hymn Choirs for getting things underway on Palm Sunday. What a shame we can't get more people into the hall for the procession. Thanks to all who came to Stations - lovely to hear the traditional Adoremus sung in the parish again. Maundy Thursday was lovely - I really love Peter Aston's I give you a new commandment: (click HERE to listen; boys only, but it's the only one I could find). Good Friday was especially notable in musical terms - the music you made was absolutely wonderful, and the Solemnities were attended with a solemn reverence by both the altar party and the congregation before, throughout and after. It was the first time (for me, anyway) that we have sung all the verses of Stabat Mater (but, as a result, we never had the endless repetition of Jesus, Remember Me!). Timings were perfect throughout, and the singing was brilliant! Didn't it just all come together throughout our church so perfectly for the occasion.......... The Vigil was rightly jubilant! Only two hours (rather than three and more) this year!! I'm sorry (especially to Jeannette) that I confused things at the start of I saw springs of water - it was totally my fault. That said, the weak opening to the Gloria was down to some of you not having the music ready in time - lessons to be learned, please, please!! And, Oh Gentlemen! - 'that' entry in the Coleridge Taylor........... Good grief!! Finally, enormous thanks to the Cantors and to Antony - hugely appreciated all round! |
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Music for next Easter Do you remember Pietro Yon's Gesù Bambino that we sung a couple of years ago at Christmas? I have just discovered his Victimae Paschali Laudes, and have a mind to think about it for next Easter. Open the score HERE, and then scroll down to follow along with the performance HERE. We would obviously have an organ accompaniment not (much as I might love the timps!) an orchestra + organ!! Listen out for that one bar that would 'exercise' the sopranos!! Prayers, please Ken's eldest niece, Carole, Mary & Frank, Christine & Eugene, Maria & Family and Jeannette's mother Hazel all remain in need of prayers. I'm delighted to be able to remove Joe Ryan from our prayers list, though I'm sure you will continue to remember him, Jeannette and the family as he continues his recovery after seven long months in hospital after his dreadful accident. Likewise Thomas Ambler, who John reports is recovering well. Christine went in for her hip operation on Maundy Thursday and came home on Wednesday following after what sounds like a successful procedure. Eugene however remains in hospital with kidney problems. It was lovely to see so many of you present for George Meyern's Funeral Mass and for Anne Mitra's Cremation Service. Please keep Mary and Freddie and their families in your thoughts and prayers. You will have received Mary's email of thanks from me last week. Our June Mass will be said for George Meyern RIP (Poly Choir's Intention), our July Mass for Anne Mitra RIP (Poly Choir's Intention) and our October Mass will be said in thanksgiving for Joe Ryan's recovery (Jeannette's Intention). 10:15 Mass 11 June (Trinity Sunday) at St. Swithun's, Southsea We're delighted to be so warmly welcomed back to St. Swithun's for our Choir Outing again this year. Travel details will be advised in due course, and we shall lunch together at the same venue (thanks for booking so promptly, Ken) as last year. The PROVISIONAL Music for the occasion may be found HERE. We will, sadly (!), not be travelling on a vintage London bus!! Vivaldi Gloria Concert I would really like us to do a concert with the Orchestra in 2018, and am aware that we have a set of Vivaldi Gloria scores in the archive. What do you think? Perhaps with a Handel Organ Concerto and an orchestral overture. Timing is a long way from being discussed, let alone agreed. I am gently exploring Saturday 12 May, and thinking of opening up the first hour of a number of consecutive Choir practices prior to the occasion to anyone who might like to learn and perform it with us; we may, perhaps, find that some who are enthused would come and then stay on for the remainder of the practices and, in time, join us. Do let me have your thoughts, please. |
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Us in 2011 at St. George's Cathedral Not sure we've seen this before!? Mozart's Ave Verum and Wilfred Trotman's St. Luke Mass with St. Bart's Orchestra. Click on the red arrow, and then on 'YouTube' at the foot of the image.
New Musical Terms Click on the image below for a readable copy!
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Plainchant Choir The next practices will take place on 16 May and 13 June for the 11:30 Corpus Christi Mass Mass on 18 June. No practice 11 July. Cantors 19:45 Practices: John 30 May, Ken 6 June and Andrew 27 June. Forthcoming Music/Dates List May's Music List (First Holy Communion Mass) is HERE, June's HERE and July's HERE. The latest Dates List for your diaries is HERE Confirmations with Bishop Pat: Friday 30 June at 19:00 Please note the change of time!
30 April Coffee Morning &
After our Coffee
Morning, Daniel's
Sunday afternoon recital at Westminster Cathedral is at 16:45 for half
an hour. The programme will consist of just one work, being Julius Reubke's 1857 Sonata on the 94th Psalm, considered - as
Wiki puts it - 'one of the pinnacles of the Romantic
repertoire'. Free entry, with a retiring collection. Father Paul's Leaving Gift We are still awaiting the date of Father Paul's farewell bash. I am assured it will be no later than July.... we'll know soon, hopefully. |
For your coffee breaks Easter from Kings.Is there such a thing as Catholic music?Rorate Coeli on the International Declaration on Sacred Music.Father Ed reflects: "The pendulum is swinging...".The Delightful Oddness of Gibraltar - Harry Mount writes in the Catholic Herald.Mitcham History Notes - an embryo blog for those interested.The most and least expensive homes sold in Croydon in February 2017 from the Croydon Advertiser.Diamond Geezer writes about Norbury Brook and the River Graveney.Our local organic Graveney Gin.The Liturgy Office for England & Wales has published the Ordo for 2018.21st century nuns: 4 things you wouldn't expect.From Archbishop Cranmer: Michael Gove chosen to be next Bishop of Sheffield.Going Places - Bloomsbury with Kenneth Williams, the Piano Museum in Brentford and Village Cricket (1975 - 22 minutes).Five buried Archbishops of Canterbury 'found by accident'.From the BBC - why are there red doors in bridges? and Do you need to peel your mushrooms! |
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