Society of Saint Gregory

If music can only be submitted for possible download via CG meetings, what about music that has already been presented at previous meetings? Of the two pieces online so far, at least one has obviously not been presented at the most recent meetings. It's a very useful system if it can be made to work...

Please does anyone know the paraphrase of the Magnificat that was set about 15 years ago to the tune of the Webbe 'Regina Coeli?' I have the music, but I cannot remember the exact words.

Thanks in advance.

Changing the subject a little: In 1986 Clifton Diocese borrowed Salisbury Cathedral for a Mass celebrating that Marian year which I think was supposed to represent the bi-millennium of the birth of Our Lady. I was overwhelmed by the singing at the offertory of the plainsong Salve Regina. The place r...

Pete, I wish you well with your compositions, and I hope you find somewhere they can be played. This forum deals with music for the liturgy, and very, very few Catholic churches have the kind of choir and orchestra your Requiem would require. I once happened upon Faure's Dies irae in its intended pl...

Someone's got to wake up this message board, so... What about the psalm for Midnight Mass, which has probably been paraphrased countless times, and is the same for all three years of the cycle? It has peculiar irregular verses, and I haven't done anything with it ..yet.. We've used the McCrimmon boo...

I'm afraid they don't usually include the music from the Daily Service in the archived programmes on the Radio 4 web site. "For contractual reasons" it says somewhere.

So they don't, - how silly, when you can hear so much rubbish again!
I will rush back from Mass and listen live.

I hope to hear at least some of these. Don't forget the Radio4 listen again facility, which I shall be using.

Try trawling the Westminster Diocesan yearbook parish listings online, with links to parish websites listed by postcodes. Some may at least give you a flavour of the parish. Since I only visit London churches while passing through they are only the big grand ones, which bear no real resemblance to o...

contrabordun wrote:*bit of a non sequitur, but you know what I mean, and I'm not trying to excuse the fact that All Things Bright And Beautiful is still not dead.

No, unfortunately. We've had it for a Baptism and a funeral in the last 7 days!

Merseysider, you are far too modest if you think you're not up to bringing your music to the composers' group. And I'm wading in here having been to only one meeting, but it was a large group in Birmingham, and the pieces presented ranged from beautifully arranged SATB hymns to short psalm arrangeme...

I was thinking of some of the beatitudes: Blessed are the peacemakers, ...or. ..those who hunger and thirst after justice. Blessed maybe, but trying to keep up with e.g campaigning with Pax Christi, Amnesty, or pro-life work, or trying to help addicts, homeless or hardened drinkers who don't want to...

I have only once played at a crematorium, following a requiem Mass at which we had, to 2 flutes and one classical guitar, sung 'By the rivers of Babylon.' The family had not wanted organ music, (in a church where the organ had been endowed by Edward Elgar, and kept in good order.) At the crematorium...

I've just tried to use the online plannner, but discovered it's a few weeks out of date. There can be problems updating websites and it's a bit of a chore if you are the one who has to do it every week, but 2 weeks ago is not a lot of use. I find it actually a very useful resource, in the mag. I cam...

Please note that the basket at the rear of the church, labelled, "For the Sick" is for monetary contributions only.

(This line has been noted in a national magazine as originating in the Anglican church in our village.)

If we are going to sing the Beatitudes, please can they be Beatitudes, not Happitudes. I have to confess I don't know any settings of them, but I cringe at every funeral where they are the chosen gospel. Surely blessed and happy are very different words, Benedict and Felix in all their forms are not...