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by Nick Baty
Sat Feb 07, 2009 6:30 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Libera
Replies: 2
Views: 1804

Re: Libera

Robert Prizeman is a very nice chap and an incredibly talented musicians. a bit startling to hear one of the boys say he did not know what the latin meant I wouldn't be startled to hear that. Few of us have studied Latin. I went right through music college singing Schubert in German and Mozart in It...
by Nick Baty
Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:38 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Yamaha Clavinova
Replies: 9
Views: 6341

Yamaha Clavinova

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by Nick Baty
Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:41 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Baptism of the Lord
Replies: 61
Views: 35679

Re: Baptism of the Lord

VML wrote:We want to see and hear it as it happens.

Do we?
• The bum notes.
• The child crying throughout.
• People walking in late and click-clacking down the centre aisle?
"As it happens" is OK for taking part in. But not so good for listening to at home.
by Nick Baty
Mon Jan 19, 2009 5:48 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Baptism of the Lord
Replies: 61
Views: 35679

Re: Baptism of the Lord

Oh please, please don't!
by Nick Baty
Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:57 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Baptism of the Lord
Replies: 61
Views: 35679

Re: Baptism of the Lord

It would have been fascinating to have been a fly on the wall during some of the preliminary negotiations leading up to this broadcast. Having worked for the Religion and Ethics dept I can assure you that the BBC is not an arbiter of taste. My line manager once told me I had "a very low cheese...
by Nick Baty
Mon Jan 12, 2009 3:13 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Baptism of the Lord
Replies: 61
Views: 35679

Re: Baptism of the Lord

I'm reading 'Why Catholics can't sing' by Thomas Day, having borrowed it on Saturday. And it soon becomes obvious that Thomas Day knows little about liturgical music in general and nothing about British music at all. But he has a drum to bang, a tub to thumb. One of the most unpleasant books I've r...
by Nick Baty
Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:31 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Baptism of the Lord
Replies: 61
Views: 35679

Re: Baptism of the Lord

sounded like a good advertisement for the progressive end of liturgical music, and perhaps a role model for a struggling parish? Except it wasn't very progressive. Terribly dull. There can't be a parish in the world which wouldn't benefit from something simple, tuneful and practical: perhaps Martin...
by Nick Baty
Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:41 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: People amaze me!
Replies: 3
Views: 3975

People amaze me!

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by Nick Baty
Sun Jan 11, 2009 3:46 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: New Mass setting for School
Replies: 22
Views: 8078

Re: New Mass setting for School

Amaris wrote:It is difficult to introduce something new as finding the time teach all the girls the new music is very limited

Perhaps just use new acclamations to begin with. Add a fraction song at a later date etc. Do tell me to shut up and sod of – I won't mind.
by Nick Baty
Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:35 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Baptism of the Lord
Replies: 61
Views: 35679

Re: Baptism of the Lord

Listening to it later on iPlayer: m Had to switch off during destruction of Soul of My Saviour – I mean, you can't change the harmonic structure, you just can't (yes, I know Stephen Dean did in Praise the Lord but....) and the 70s ballad piano in the background.... Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.......
by Nick Baty
Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:41 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: New Mass setting for School
Replies: 22
Views: 8078

Re: New Mass setting for School

Amaris wrote:At the moment we sing the Our Father from African Sanctus, which is the one part sung with much gusto by the girls.

In which case, try them with Bill Tamblyn's Jubilee Service.
by Nick Baty
Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:27 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: New Mass setting for School
Replies: 22
Views: 8078

Re: New Mass setting for School

contrabordun wrote:I haven't met many seminarians lately. Are they really that bad?

A friend recently returned from Rome described them as "Lace by day, leather by night...."
But that doesn't mean the same is true of colleges in England.
by Nick Baty
Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:00 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Baptism of the Lord
Replies: 61
Views: 35679

Re: Baptism of the Lord

Southern Comfort wrote:and incidentally fill CJM's coffers

We had an electrician in last week – he filled his coffers out of parish funds.
And there was the coach driver who took the kids to Blackpool for the day.
And I have heard that Hayes and Finch now charge for candles.
Terrible.
by Nick Baty
Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:53 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: New Mass setting for School
Replies: 22
Views: 8078

Re: New Mass setting for School

The next-door parish in my diocese is still singing the same Mass music it has been singing since the 1970s But unless there's someone enthusiastic enough to find out what else is available..... Or, perhaps, a diocesan liturgy commission which gets out and about rather sitting on their non-proverbi...
by Nick Baty
Sat Jan 10, 2009 8:59 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Baptism of the Lord
Replies: 61
Views: 35679

Re: Baptism of the Lord

I meant to say 'more entertainment than worship,' and that is true. But when did Songs of Praise ever pretend to be worship? Should stress that I worked for Songs of Praise for four years and remain very loyal – even when I don't like a particular edition. The fact is, there is no such thing as a t...