“I will sing the wondrous story” - Hyfrydol.
“My Jesus, my Saviour” (Darlene Zschech).
“Through all the changing scenes of life” - Wiltshire.
“I know not why God’s wondrous grace” (James McGranahan)
“Fight the good fight” - Duke Street.
God's spirit is in my heart (Alan Dale & Hubert J Richards)
Gosh, haven't sung that for ages. It has to be sung in a certain way to succeed.
It stopped being picked at ours after I accompanied in the style of You've got to pick a pocket or two for the verses and Oom pah pah for the choruses. Both from Oliver!
Bairstow and Byrd - lovely. The misereres at the end of the Byrd always reduce me to jelly to the point of not being able to sing. Ive never heard of that Mass or its composer. Someone local?
I ve just looked him up he has a very impressive Wiki entry, so there's me told! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Jeffcoat
Bairstow and Byrd - lovely. The misereres at the end of the Byrd always reduce me to jelly to the point of not being able to sing. Ive never heard of that Mass or its composer. Someone local?
I ve just looked him up he has a very impressive Wiki entry, so there's me told! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Jeffcoat
I met Rupert a few times at Cathedral Organists' Association conferences when he was organist at Coventry - he's quite a character. I was quite taken with the Mass, which isn't at all difficult to sing, and is scored in such a way that it can be sung by any forces from (literally) two voices to full SATB.
Our offerings at St Pete's today were rather more prosaic:
O worship the King - Hanover God is good - Kendrick <rolleyes> O thou, who at thy Eucharist didst pray - Song 1 (that's more like it!) O let the Son of God enfold you - Spirit Song All glory, laud and honour - St Theodulph
Another village Harvest.
Come you thankful people come
All creatures of our God and king
We plough the fields
To thee O Lord our hearts we raise
Now thank we all our God.
Another village Harvest.
Come you thankful people come
All creatures of our God and king
We plough the fields
To thee O Lord our hearts we raise
Now thank we all our God.
A fine selection of traditional hymns! Were they all sung to what one might call the traditional/usual tunes?
How great Thou art (How great Thou art)
Great is the Lord, and most worthy of praise (Steve McEwan)
Take my life and let it be (Consecration)
In Heavenly Love abiding (Penlan)
Another village Harvest.
Come you thankful people come
All creatures of our God and king
We plough the fields
To thee O Lord our hearts we raise
Now thank we all our God.
A fine selection of traditional hymns! Were they all sung to what one might call the traditional/usual tunes?
Yes, absolutely. Sorry I did not have time to name them earlier.
Another village Harvest.
Come you thankful people come
All creatures of our God and king
We plough the fields
To thee O Lord our hearts we raise
Now thank we all our God.
A fine selection of traditional hymns! Were they all sung to what one might call the traditional/usual tunes?
Yes, absolutely. Sorry I did not have time to name them earlier.
No problem! One or two of them have alternative tunes - Now thank we all our God, for example.
Only one booking today which was Mattins so able to attend HC early which makes a nice change.
My Father for another night (St Timothy)
usual canticles etc
My God how wonderful thou art (Westminster)
The King of love (Dominus regit me)
O Jesus I have promised (Wolvercote)
Nothing much to report other than Wolvercote going well.
I don't mean to cast aspersions on the sincerity of the choir at King's; but the difference in congregation sizes does make it feel rather more like a "performance", and because their reputation is so high, you tend to expect perfection. The first time I went there, there was a slightly iffy* entry at one point, which served to reassure us that even they weren't infallible!
A similar thing happened during my one visit to King's for Choral Evensong. The precentor (chaplain?) sang a versicle to a suddenly freeform set of pitches (OK, wrong notes), and a handy hum was immediately heard to help the choir respond without any delay at all. Impressive but not surprising.
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“I will sing the wondrous story” - Hyfrydol.
“My Jesus, my Saviour” (Darlene Zschech).
“Through all the changing scenes of life” - Wiltshire.
“I know not why God’s wondrous grace” (James McGranahan)
“Fight the good fight” - Duke Street.
It stopped being picked at ours after I accompanied in the style of You've got to pick a pocket or two for the verses and Oom pah pah for the choruses. Both from Oliver!
Our offerings were:
Missa verbum supernum - Rupert Jeffcoat
Let all mortal flesh keep silence - Edward Bairstow
Ave verum corpus - William Byrd
Hymns:
Amazing grace - usual tune, but with a rather nicer harmony, which made it almost palatable
King of glory, King of peace - Gwalchmai
Organ voluntary - something rather jolly by Guilmant
I ve just looked him up he has a very impressive Wiki entry, so there's me told!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Jeffcoat
Jesus is King - Own tune (Wendy Churchill)
May the mind of Christ my Saviour - ST LEONARDS
Go Forth and Tell! - WOODLANDS
I met Rupert a few times at Cathedral Organists' Association conferences when he was organist at Coventry - he's quite a character. I was quite taken with the Mass, which isn't at all difficult to sing, and is scored in such a way that it can be sung by any forces from (literally) two voices to full SATB.
Our offerings at St Pete's today were rather more prosaic:
O worship the King - Hanover
God is good - Kendrick <rolleyes>
O thou, who at thy Eucharist didst pray - Song 1 (that's more like it!)
O let the Son of God enfold you - Spirit Song
All glory, laud and honour - St Theodulph
Comfort, Comfort All My People
Brother, Sister, Let Me Serve You
Beauty For Brokenness
Come you thankful people come
All creatures of our God and king
We plough the fields
To thee O Lord our hearts we raise
Now thank we all our God.
A fine selection of traditional hymns! Were they all sung to what one might call the traditional/usual tunes?
Great is the Lord, and most worthy of praise (Steve McEwan)
Take my life and let it be (Consecration)
In Heavenly Love abiding (Penlan)
Yes, absolutely. Sorry I did not have time to name them earlier.
No problem! One or two of them have alternative tunes - Now thank we all our God, for example.
My Father for another night (St Timothy)
usual canticles etc
My God how wonderful thou art (Westminster)
The King of love (Dominus regit me)
O Jesus I have promised (Wolvercote)
Nothing much to report other than Wolvercote going well.
Lord of creation (SLANE)
Christ be beside me
Spirit of the living God
When the storms of life are raging
From heaven you came
A similar thing happened during my one visit to King's for Choral Evensong. The precentor (chaplain?) sang a versicle to a suddenly freeform set of pitches (OK, wrong notes), and a handy hum was immediately heard to help the choir respond without any delay at all. Impressive but not surprising.