Society of Saint Gregory

additional advice on how to connect school-based composition with liturgical composing would be most welcome. Your son would find all the relevant bits in the bishops' Guide for Composers which can be found halfway down this page: m It explains a lot of basics, eg thematic unity of eucharistic accl...

And Cardinal Godfrey who was born in Liverpool. (And who suggested that Catholics should feed their pets less during Lent.) And Cardinal Heenan who was trained in Leeds and Liverpool before being sent on the London mission in 1963. Greatest quotes have to be "A church that is half empty is half...

PPS (As I can't edit the above!)
Didn't the northern miners and dockers help to bring down Thatcher?
Doc Matt we have so much of which we can be proud.

why must everything be so London centred? Well the poor *beep* have little of any serious value. The Pennines are northern - as are Patricia Routledge, Thora Hird and Victoria Wood. To say nothing of Bleasdale, Russell, et al. Admittedly, Alan Ayckbourne was born in London but he has since made goo...

Dear Oops,
You only need cantor and congregation.
The choir harmony is entirely optional.

Fell for it by responding to provocative post.
Note to self: Don't be so bloody stupid in future.

Meaning that you need a priest?
Not sure about the comparison given that the most important musical elements of any liturgy do not need require a choir.

Also highly debatable!

Highly debatable.

Choirs are lovely things to have but you don't "need" one.
Apart from the choral repertoire, what liturgical music can't you perform without them?
(Puts on tin hat ready for general shooting down!)

Having taken advice, I have removed all my comments about midi from this thread. I realise that those who believe it is a recording or a backing track always will so the debate will become futile.

singing all over the place I recorded our Vigil this year and the singing (on my superb new Yamaha Pocketrak) also sounds all over the place: I'm convinced it's having the choir under the north aisle – on almost every piece you can hear the assembly almost a beat behind. We're producing a CD – but ...

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presbyter wrote:

Nick Baty wrote: communication is very difficult

Understand that well enough. One Easter Vigil – in the largest of our three churches – the organist and I had headset walky-talkies and I still couldn't keep her sound and ours together.

presbyter wrote:Organist plays chord - I breathe in to intone Agnus Dei............ Archbishop grabs me "Peace be with you...."

Appears not to be your error, Dear Presbyter – sounds as though the organist began the Agnus far too early. You are absolved.