Society of Saint Gregory

amazon.co.uk currenty quotes "one in stock" for Ressurexit:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Resurrexit-Music-Eastertide-Dean-Stephen/dp/190031410X

(and no I have not ordered it...)

Tim

a group who tell me they really like the 'seventies and eighties' hymns That might be a partial description of us We are formally the "Children's Music Group" at a child-heavy Mass. This week we sang Follow me (no sung Kyrie, Gloria,Psalm,Acclamation - our Pianist and the singers were at ...

I can't cope with something that doesn't mention bread, wine , hands or tables. In our Children's Music Group we tend to work that way... in spite of gentle suggestions from mcb... What we have used is, in order of frequency, (with numbers from Laudate rather than HON) L603 12 Blest Are You Lord L6...

My memory was inaccurate - my PhD was 203 pages, but only 23,000 words (the rest was equations and pictures) and to return to within earshot of the topic of liturgical music, two of my figures were of trombones (or at least an approximation to them using Dupin's Cyclides). I have only had a quick gl...

Chris wrote:Thats really quite short for a PhD! And it really is quite readable....

my copy has just arrived (thanks abebooks...) about the same number of pages as my PhD thesis - but not nearly enough pictures

Tim

I should like to see our Catholic secondary schools encouraging their students to compose for the liturgy (and use their music in school liturgies). we do use a Kyrie with melody by a teenager, and an Easter hymn by a then primary schoolchild (both my sons as it happens....) arranged by our pianist...

Are there ANY good hymns to specific saints we could adapt our own... The Irish, the Irish, they sailed 'cross the wavey, wavey The Irish, the Irish, they sailed 'cross the wavey, wavey, Stole young Pat and - made him a slavey, slavey! Children of the Lord... I am having some difficulty coming up w...

docmattc wrote:A croaker next to a croakus! Will the wit never end? If that's a recent photo, spring is upon the other side of the pennines much earlier than on this side

15th January this year - lots of primroses out but only that one croakus, which has now fallen over after the shock of getting a frost...

BTW - what happened to the pic of the iguana? It's just what we need to cheer us up at this time of year. http://www.ediblearmies.org.uk/images/iguana400.jpg Sorry about the delay! Silent Night, croak, croak Holy Night, croak, croak It was surprisingly effective ... I tried it in rehearsal, expecti...

docmattc wrote:Is that the native Mancunian iguana?

I will try to take a photo tomorrow...

Tim

Today's online sermon at http://torch.op.org/preaching is A Place for Tin-pot Musicians and includes the comment: Cana was a forsaken little place with tin-pot musicians whose wedding party ran out of wine, but surely in that trivial setting something did happen which opened the eyes of Jesus's new ...

Good musicians will make good music, whatever instruments* or voices they use. [...] (*Well, OK, almost whatever instruments...) Our trumpeter is nagging me to buy him a Didgeridoo but I did find that a wooden iguana fitted nicely into Silent Night (A night feels more silent when you hear wildlife ...

As a programmer I would prefer a proclamation of an algorithm to compute the date of Easter, for example the one at the end of http://www.davros.org/misc/easter.html.

Tim

Sorry Tim (who I've never met before)...... So do you know each other now? as it happens I did not see mcb yesterday - though my eldest son drank some of his beer (he was off at the cathedral when we returned from the Advent Family Day - at which penguins and reindeer were imitated, but no kangaroo...

MCB's rendition is great fun Hang on, when was that then? (Blimey, I must have been drunk. ) possibly I am fairly sure I remember an occasion when we were students - probably not on a punt, for stability reasons, but perhaps at the picnic. I think you also once demonstrated a few verses to Alison w...