Well done, Gwyn - a timely warning. It was a similar message that caught out Thomas and persuaded him to submit his account details. I have sent microsoft all the info advised.
If anyone does not know what they're doing, it's me, as my username indicates:
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- Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:44 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Thomas Muir stuck in Africa?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 16615
- Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:29 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Thomas Muir stuck in Africa?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 16615
Re: Thomas Muir stuck in Africa?
Email received from hotmail, (see below), showing concern at abuse. They wish me to provide the following, but I do not use Hotmail (nor do I wish to). I can get the full header info from "properties - details" (that which presbyter displayed in his 1st post), but I don't know if that's what the guy ...
- Mon Mar 30, 2009 6:50 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Thomas Muir stuck in Africa?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 16615
Re: Thomas Muir stuck in Africa?
Thomas has been on the phone to me. A hacker has changed his password. He is at his mother's at present. I have sent a message to report the abuse, and he is trying to get the account closed down. If anyone can offer more informed help, I can give you his current phone no. I think further ...
- Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:03 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Choir guidelines
- Replies: 30
- Views: 15675
Re: Choir guidelines
Choirs need to sit so that their words can carry and be understood by the congregation. The choir that faces our congregation sideways-on are easily interpretable. The choir that sits facing forward with their backs to many of the people are too often undecipherable. Last night they sang the psalm ...
- Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:28 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: MacMillan's St John Passion
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5146
Re: MacMillan's St John Passion
21 - is that in bear years, and do bears live a really, really long time?
- Thu Feb 05, 2009 1:21 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: MacMillan's St John Passion
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5146
Re: MacMillan's St John Passion
Boosey and Hawkes are now advertising a live recording http://www.boosey.com/shop/prod/MacMillan-James-St-John-Passion-LSO-LIVE-Audio-CD-2x-SACD-set/1000389
- Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:28 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Baptism of the Lord
- Replies: 61
- Views: 42833
Re: Baptism of the Lord
I listened to the service in the car and had to change waveband to avoid listening to "Soul of my Saviour," feeling almost embarrassed by it even though I was travelling alone. I was appalled at the words of the Agnus Dei - I thought the word "Dei" had even been shortened to "De" in order to rhyme ...
- Sat Nov 22, 2008 5:08 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: O Magnum Mysterium
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3977
Re: O Magnum Mysterium
Wonderful experience: recording in different key from score. This is good practice for me, whose choirmaster keeps throwing scores at us written in funny clefs - down a 7th, down a third, whatever; or he may decide to transpose a piece on a whim. I'm beginning to get used to it ..... at least the ...
- Sun Nov 16, 2008 9:48 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Gospel Music Workshop this Saturday at Salford Cathedral
- Replies: 9
- Views: 17533
Re: Gospel Music Workshop this Saturday at Salford Cathedral
You're right, doc - there's nothing wrong with the other side of the Pennines, and it rains less (she says, after a beautiful, sunny weekend), but why does it always rain by Sheffield as you go up the M1? Seriously, the more I consider it, the more feasible would have been a round trip - Salford ...
- Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:42 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Gospel Music Workshop this Saturday at Salford Cathedral
- Replies: 9
- Views: 17533
Re: Gospel Music Workshop this Saturday at Salford Cathedral
Sounds interesting, and I might have considered going but I've booked my weekend away to the wrong side of the Pennines. Both adverts for the event came to my attention today, one in M&L and this one. Why can't such events be publicised further in advance in the "what's coming up" box on the home ...
- Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:15 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Requiem Masses & Funeral Services
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19266
Re: Requiem Masses & Funeral Services
I used to sing with a "scratch" group that provided music for funerals in the Anglican church. The MD of the local parish church would just ring round to see who was available for each occasion. There would normally be about eight of us and we were paid £25 a head. The musical repertoire was fairly ...
- Sat Oct 18, 2008 7:18 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Visiting Choirs at Westminster Cathedral
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1580
Re: Visiting Choirs at Westminster Cathedral
Even better, contact precentor (see member list of this forum) or look for a contact on the westminster cathedral website quoted by his username. BTW, is anyone else having trouble using PMs on the new format? I can't make them recognise a username any more.
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- Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:05 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Going flat
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2681
Re: Going flat
From one who is completely spooked by choirs / parts going flat, I ask the rest of you - does it affect you, as long as the choir maintains tuning between the parts? I'm genuinely interested to know. I sang in a choir that had a tendency to sing a little sharp - that was fine . When they went flat ...
- Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:11 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Good Friday Reproaches: to accompany?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8915
Re: Good Friday Reproaches: to accompany?
Accurate tuning matters to a choir or group of instruments as much as accurate reading does to a reader. If pitch slips, so does the tone. What's the point of music if you don't bother about getting the notes right? Of course accompany, subtly, keeping the tone appropriate to the day. I was at ...
- Sun Mar 02, 2008 10:50 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Laetare or mothering!!?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5916
Re: Laetare or mothering!!?
Parish Mass with the primary children last night: an affirming experience for all involved because of the good attendance and the supportive singing of the assembly. The ministry of the person in the pew is just as important as that of the people who lead (but who are supposed to be invisible ...