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by MaryR
Fri Jan 27, 2012 1:55 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Liturgy Office - unjust prejudice?
Replies: 34
Views: 12992

Re: Liturgy Office - unjust prejudice?

I think the Liturgy Office qua liturgy Office should make no videos whatsoever of commercial products. You could say that if the recording acknowledged the composer and identified the piece. It doesn't! It's a learning aid, if you like. It's not promoting anything, except perhaps the idea that sing...
by MaryR
Fri Jan 27, 2012 1:44 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Liturgy Office - unjust prejudice?
Replies: 34
Views: 12992

Re: Liturgy Office - unjust prejudice?

Yet I truly am stunned by, what seems to me, to be an amazing act of naivety by the Liturgy Office staff ....... the person directing the music is (as far as I am aware) a member of the Formation Committee of that Office/Department and also, the person who is the main, commercial distributor of thi...
by MaryR
Fri Jan 27, 2012 1:10 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Liturgy Office - unjust prejudice?
Replies: 34
Views: 12992

Re: Liturgy Office - unjust prejudice?

The cantor gives it away though. Really? Do composers only cantor their own settings? May cantors only cantor settings they have written themselves? It only gives it away to people who both know the piece and recognise the cantor. I suspect that's not very many people at all! Does anyone have anyth...
by MaryR
Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:29 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Future of this Forum - for AGM on Saturday
Replies: 50
Views: 19989

Re: Future of this Forum - for AGM on Saturday

At the risk of repeating myself, we need to give some thought to the staffing of the forum. As we saw last Saturday, when both moderators are otherwise engaged in other matters it is possible for things to blow up. Perhaps it is no longer sufficient or prudent to rely on two volunteers to cover thi...
by MaryR
Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:16 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Future of this Forum - for AGM on Saturday
Replies: 50
Views: 19989

Re: Future of this Forum - for AGM on Saturday

I agree we need to review the rules of the forum, and perhaps be tougher on the troublemakers, or even the bickerers, but they're not a reason to shut the forum down. I said I was against closing it; I'm not against reviewing how it's moderated and perhaps revising the rules. Nick, I'm happy for eve...
by MaryR
Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:40 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Future of this Forum - for AGM on Saturday
Replies: 50
Views: 19989

Re: Future of this Forum - for AGM on Saturday

Keith, obviously there cannot be a formal discussion about this forum at the AGM but there should at least be some informal chit chat and any trustee there will be able to pass on views at the next meeting. SOP, just to confirm that there will be a discussion about the forum during AOB at the AGM: ...
by MaryR
Mon Nov 07, 2011 5:37 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: SSG Annual Conference 12th November - Come and Sing!
Replies: 17
Views: 8714

Re: SSG Annual Conference 12th November - Come and Sing!

If you've not already been in touch with me, and you are planning to come on Saturday, can you email me or PM me and let me know? I need final numbers for those who want food, and I will need names in any event for badges and folders.

Thanks very much.
by MaryR
Fri Nov 04, 2011 1:05 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Bumper Music & Liturgy
Replies: 28
Views: 10752

Re: Bumper Music & Liturgy

Thanks very much for this, Peter. So, in essence, you're suggesting simpler notes coupled with, perhaps some more practical tips on proclaiming the reading? As a reader, that chimes with what I would find most useful. We will feed this back to the working group that is currently reviewing the planne...
by MaryR
Thu Nov 03, 2011 6:26 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: What's going well?
Replies: 55
Views: 21729

Re: What's going well?

Nick Baty wrote:I presume that when it's not sung it's... well, it's just not there.

Not so, I'm afraid. When it's not sung, it's just said!
by MaryR
Thu Nov 03, 2011 6:10 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: What's going well?
Replies: 55
Views: 21729

Re: What's going well?

But as the Alleluia is always sung, singing it cannot be taking it away from the people. Oh, Nick. Do you really believe the Alleluia is always sung? I can think of several parishes I've visited where this doesn't happen. It's sad, but true that the hymn sandwich still exists, with everything betwe...
by MaryR
Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:21 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: 'Written on the heart' Jeremiah 17:1
Replies: 1
Views: 1476

'Written on the heart' Jeremiah 17:1

I went to the Swan Theatre (Stratford-on-Avon) last night, to see the new David Edgar play, Written on the Heart . The play tells the story of the making of the King James Bible. Oh my word! Within five minutes of the play beginning, I was alternately either open mouthed, or trying to stifle laughte...
by MaryR
Thu Oct 27, 2011 12:13 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: SSG Annual Conference 12th November - Come and Sing!
Replies: 17
Views: 8714

Re: SSG Annual Conference 12th November - Come and Sing!

Just a reminder that, if you are planning to attend the Conference and would like to eat as well as sing, you need to let me know you're coming! PM me, or email me at secretary@ssg.org.uk.

Many thanks.
by MaryR
Mon Sep 05, 2011 7:49 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: First Mass in new translation: so how was it?
Replies: 72
Views: 37814

Re: First Mass in new translation: so how was it?

I’m in the same parish as PaulW so apologies if there’s some repetition of what he’s said, but I’d typed this before I realised he’d posted! I was concerned a little earlier in the year that we weren’t doing enough preparation for the new texts in our parish. I now feel that our PP got it just about...
by MaryR
Wed Aug 10, 2011 1:05 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Summer School
Replies: 22
Views: 9517

Re: Summer School

Eastern Promise As one of the organisers of summer school, I'm very sorry that you are so dismissive of it without having experienced it. That is, I'm assuming that you weren't actually there as all the evaluations I've received have been very positive and encouraging. If we are getting it all so wr...
by MaryR
Wed Jul 20, 2011 6:23 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Reviewing a review
Replies: 18
Views: 7459

Re: Reviewing a review

Did I read a different review? I didn't think that Nick's work was panned at all! The reviewers, who are parish musicians, have commented as they found and much of it was positive. Concerning the criticism of the reviewers for apparently not being familiar with the Composers' Guide, I've been reflec...