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- Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:23 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Proclamation of the date of Easter
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9850
I've been thinking about the replacement of human conductors with robots ever since my encounter with Asimo (robot child of the Honda corporation) last week. Could they deal with changing tempo and rubato? (link to video of robot conductor above failed, so I don't know) Would they set predictable te...
- Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:06 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Folk Group
- Replies: 39
- Views: 21826
That looks just like my favourite choir leader! Couldn't possibly comment He's a sturdy chap, isn't he? Btw, is that a baseball bat he has in his nearside front paw? That'd tame any wayward alto, (or maybe just most!) Response from wayward alto: the process of taming did not involve a baseball bat ...
- Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:24 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Folk Group
- Replies: 39
- Views: 21826
- Tue Dec 12, 2006 6:07 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: O Come, O Come Emmanuel
- Replies: 53
- Views: 29625
Humpty Dumpty ... is as simple an explanation of the Third Law of Thermodynamics as you could hope to offer to any enquiring infant puzzled by the frailty of life and the inevitability of entropy Being pedantic, isn't it an illustration of the Second Law (unless Humpty was exceedingly cold....) I t...
- Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:52 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Start of Advent
- Replies: 69
- Views: 34622
The equivalent of the glorious twelfth ( no shooting before that date ) should surely be: no carols before Christmas whenever that is - 17th Dec???? Is that really the forgetful mcb at the piano in above piture? The evidence is compelling (only top of head visible above piano). He may have forgotten...
- Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:30 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Start of Advent
- Replies: 69
- Views: 34622
- Wed Nov 15, 2006 3:36 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Westminster Cathedral
- Replies: 41
- Views: 26264
- Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:59 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Westminster Cathedral
- Replies: 41
- Views: 26264
- Sun Nov 12, 2006 7:48 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Westminster Cathedral
- Replies: 41
- Views: 26264
In the course of the SSG day at Westminster Cathedral, I was struck by the Vespers that preceded 6pm Mass. Scanning this thread, I notice that mcb has already said exactly what I was thinking: This was a truly successful participatory liturgy, with the congregation heartily embracing their role in c...
- Fri Nov 03, 2006 9:15 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: James MacMillan's thoughts on Bind Us Together
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8643
- Sun Oct 29, 2006 6:20 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Soppy sixties service sheets
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13934
- Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:48 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Westminster Cathedral
- Replies: 41
- Views: 26264
So I'd suggest a different analogy from your image of 'eating out', which I'd say colours the way we do things at Salford: cathedral liturgy can be like going round for dinner at your mum's, to see how it should be done. In that case, I would never have eaten curry or most foreign food - what a sha...
- Sat Sep 02, 2006 5:02 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Westminster Cathedral
- Replies: 41
- Views: 26264
Thank-you so much, precentor, for your contribution to the debate. It is worthy of a thread in its own right. I often read the Forum with a sense of frustration and feel very wound up by what contributors are saying. Your comments, and the response they have received, leave me with a feeling of sere...
- Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:59 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Use of Latin
- Replies: 46
- Views: 57213
- Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:24 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Use of Latin
- Replies: 46
- Views: 57213
A macaronic mélange can work perfectly well. It wasn't so much that the ostinato was getting in the way of the verses, and we had been instructed to hum during the verses (though we didn't because we don't all listen to instructions). After a while, the cantor directed a decrescendo just before he ...