Society of Saint Gregory

organist wrote:Summer school with kangaroosies - perfect for the concert mcb!

MCB's rendition is great fun , though it has been some years since I have seen it...

musicus wrote:try hear James MacMillan's Veni, Veni Emmanuel - a wonderful concerto for percussion and orchestra...

wonderful indeed - I wonder where the cd is Unfortunately I don't think we could quite manage it with bongos, tambourines and frog, a week on Sunday.

Fr. Peter is co-author of a book – An English Kyriale. We sang through several settings of the Gloria from that book which would be suitable for use in a parish and would be picked up quickly by a congregation. So far as as I can tell, the book seems to be currently unavailable, but some of the c...

We generally do use a Bongo (one of the pair - I must get a bongo-stand sometime so I can use both hands...), but the rest of the musicians (piano, and some combination of violin/sax/trumpet/flute) join in in the non-cantor parts.

Alan wrote:I have to go and record some bagpipes on Wednesday (don't ask).

Any advice (technical or otherwise)?

Sorry, no. I tried mentioning bagpipes to our new PP, but he did not seem too keen on the idea, even when I pointed behind him to the statue of a shepherd playing one in the crib....

I did go as far as looking on ebay for bagpipes, as our eleven-year-old said he wanted to learn them (but it would be a long while before he caught up with his violin-playing). Cheap, allegedly playable, mini-scottish-bagpipes abound, but non-scottish ones are much rarer and more expensive, even tho...

Definitely behind here - master congregation sheets handed over to the parish office, but instrumental parts not started yet I have almost finished the cards, but presents still have gaps. We went to see Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band last night (Carols and Capers...) we really could do with some...

Enjoy the school, all you who can go this year - I looking forward to hearing reports on your return (or is anyone planning live blogging?), and maybe in a year or two I will join you!

Tim

It sounds very tempting, but not this year... If I wait a couple more years then our youngest will hit 12, and maybe we would come as a family. For newcomers like me, a whole week feels rather daunting. I wonder if an occasional shorter event might be practical - it might end up as just as much orga...

Could there be a market for bilingual versions, eg an echo Our Father with one group singing in latin with the "echo" in english/welsh/etc (or vice versa).

I fear that it would be hard to do well

(hello everyone...)

Tim