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by Benevenio
Fri Jul 02, 2004 3:10 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Dunnow the source of this but it fits the tune "Repton
Replies: 23
Views: 13877

For my own compostitions, I see what is on the page as a 'performance opportunity', and would be quite happy for anyone else to think the same. You can put that down to my Jazz leanings... and the fact that I am not at all precious about what I write... and that fact that I am praying whilst I play ...
by Benevenio
Fri Jul 02, 2004 8:05 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: SSG Summer School
Replies: 61
Views: 33932

I've done a couple of dance workshops with SSG summer schools - one with Andy Raine at Ushaw and one with Monica (McArdle?) at Liverpool Hope. It isn't my comfort zone either! I have the proverbial two left feet... and they're both flat at that! But, armed with a sense of rhythm and the abililty to ...
by Benevenio
Wed Jun 30, 2004 9:47 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: SSG Summer School
Replies: 61
Views: 33932

Me too!
by Benevenio
Tue Jun 29, 2004 8:37 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Late arrivals at the Liturgists' Ball
Replies: 91
Views: 44951

If these late arrivals don't hurry up, we'll have moved on to play the next round - Morning Prayer Crescent!
by Benevenio
Tue Jun 29, 2004 8:15 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Glory to God
Replies: 65
Views: 39507

Admin's just put up the details of the latest issue of Music and Liturgy , so if you're not an SSG member, sign up and get a copy so you can read the Gelineau interview yourselves. The line I found most interesting was where Gelineau is talking about the current farce over translation of the liturgi...
by Benevenio
Tue Jun 29, 2004 7:35 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Late arrivals at the Liturgists' Ball
Replies: 91
Views: 44951

Just flown in from Texas, Mr and Mrs Drawl, and their daughter, Cathy...
by Benevenio
Mon Jun 28, 2004 8:39 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Late arrivals at the Liturgists' Ball
Replies: 91
Views: 44951

Don't they sing with the choir of that terribly sneaky red-hatted priest? Cardinal Rat's Singers?
by Benevenio
Sun Jun 27, 2004 12:10 pm
Forum: Sounds Off
Topic: Sibelius software & instant responsorial psalms. . .
Replies: 23
Views: 55724

Finale is rather less intuitive and needs to be grappled with, meandering around menu and sub-menu to find the means to achieve what you desire. I will very quietly disagree with you. Things I have observed about computer users: 1. Only Mac users insist that they are right and the other 98% of the ...
by Benevenio
Sun Jun 27, 2004 11:23 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: SSG Summer School
Replies: 61
Views: 33932

Perhaps, then, it should be better this year to have invitees to the Papal Awards' ball...

Anyway, what's wrong with inviting Mr and Mrs Tas and their ever-so-charitable daughter, U.B. Cari ?
by Benevenio
Thu May 20, 2004 6:13 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Hymn to our Lady
Replies: 11
Views: 9027

Can I just be the party-pooper here? Personally, I can't begin to understand the Marian cult. Not even after reading Lumen Gentium again - Chapter 8 The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God in the mystery of Christ and the Church , section iv The Cult of the Blessed Virgin in the Church in particular....
by Benevenio
Thu May 13, 2004 12:13 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: What do you do with a PP who.....
Replies: 21
Views: 14109

Hmm... My aunt - a nun - is regularly called 'Sister' by her family. It is an affectionate in-joke, and one she reciprocates when with her two sisters who she also addresses as 'Sister'. So perhaps the thing with his brother is as much a family jest as anything else. Still, sounds like your man is i...
by Benevenio
Tue May 11, 2004 7:17 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Doing it right?
Replies: 26
Views: 20693

Back on topic...

Is there anyone else for whom "doing it right" sometimes means going against current wisdom? Do you know what I mean? Define "Current wisdom"... are we talking about the letter of the liturgical books, the current instructions from Rome, or the spirit of Vatican II? I suspect that by "doing it righ...
by Benevenio
Mon May 10, 2004 8:36 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: What do you do with a PP who.....
Replies: 21
Views: 14109

When Chris Walker was asked what to do about a trouble some priest, he turned and asked the questioner "How long have you worked in the parish with this priest?" To the answer "5 long years", he replied "The Israelites were in the wilderness for 40, so you have some way to go!"
by Benevenio
Mon May 10, 2004 5:51 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Organs and instruments
Replies: 8
Views: 7333

OK! There are many fine organists - some even consider me a friend! We agree - No-one, no group, is the be-all-and-end-all; one person does have far more chance of keeping things in line than a nebulus group without leadership... But then again, we read elsewhere in this forum how, when the one pers...
by Benevenio
Mon May 10, 2004 1:07 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Organs and instruments
Replies: 8
Views: 7333

To answer the points Andrew originally raised (elsewhere and here): Any instrumental group or choir has a director of some form - to give tempo, initial pitch. A few choirs can do this almost undirected; these groups tend to be the elite, and I dare to suggest that this is not where most of our volu...