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by Dot
Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:44 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Thomas Muir stuck in Africa?
Replies: 32
Views: 14274

Re: Thomas Muir stuck in Africa?

Well done, Gwyn - a timely warning. It was a similar message that caught out Thomas and persuaded him to submit his account details. I have sent microsoft all the info advised.

If anyone does not know what they're doing, it's me, as my username indicates:

Doughty Old Technophobe
by Dot
Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:29 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Thomas Muir stuck in Africa?
Replies: 32
Views: 14274

Re: Thomas Muir stuck in Africa?

Email received from hotmail, (see below), showing concern at abuse. They wish me to provide the following, but I do not use Hotmail (nor do I wish to). I can get the full header info from "properties - details" (that which presbyter displayed in his 1st post), but I don't know if that's wh...
by Dot
Mon Mar 30, 2009 6:50 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Thomas Muir stuck in Africa?
Replies: 32
Views: 14274

Re: Thomas Muir stuck in Africa?

Thomas has been on the phone to me. A hacker has changed his password. He is at his mother's at present. I have sent a message to report the abuse, and he is trying to get the account closed down. If anyone can offer more informed help, I can give you his current phone no. I think further speculatio...
by Dot
Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:03 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Choir guidelines
Replies: 30
Views: 13836

Re: Choir guidelines

Choirs need to sit so that their words can carry and be understood by the congregation. The choir that faces our congregation sideways-on are easily interpretable. The choir that sits facing forward with their backs to many of the people are too often undecipherable. Last night they sang the psalm i...
by Dot
Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:28 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: MacMillan's St John Passion
Replies: 7
Views: 4788

Re: MacMillan's St John Passion

21 - is that in bear years, and do bears live a really, really long time? :!:
by Dot
Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:28 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Baptism of the Lord
Replies: 61
Views: 35679

Re: Baptism of the Lord

I listened to the service in the car and had to change waveband to avoid listening to "Soul of my Saviour," feeling almost embarrassed by it even though I was travelling alone. I was appalled at the words of the Agnus Dei - I thought the word "Dei" had even been shortened to &quo...
by Dot
Sat Nov 22, 2008 5:08 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: O Magnum Mysterium
Replies: 5
Views: 3577

Re: O Magnum Mysterium

Wonderful experience: recording in different key from score. This is good practice for me, whose choirmaster keeps throwing scores at us written in funny clefs - down a 7th, down a third, whatever; or he may decide to transpose a piece on a whim. I'm beginning to get used to it ..... at least the ch...
by Dot
Sun Nov 16, 2008 9:48 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Gospel Music Workshop this Saturday at Salford Cathedral
Replies: 9
Views: 17120

Re: Gospel Music Workshop this Saturday at Salford Cathedral

You're right, doc - there's nothing wrong with the other side of the Pennines, and it rains less (she says, after a beautiful, sunny weekend), but why does it always rain by Sheffield as you go up the M1? Seriously, the more I consider it, the more feasible would have been a round trip - Salford Sat...
by Dot
Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:42 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Gospel Music Workshop this Saturday at Salford Cathedral
Replies: 9
Views: 17120

Re: Gospel Music Workshop this Saturday at Salford Cathedral

Sounds interesting, and I might have considered going but I've booked my weekend away to the wrong side of the Pennines. Both adverts for the event came to my attention today, one in M&L and this one. Why can't such events be publicised further in advance in the "what's coming up" box ...
by Dot
Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:15 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Requiem Masses & Funeral Services
Replies: 32
Views: 17328

Re: Requiem Masses & Funeral Services

I used to sing with a "scratch" group that provided music for funerals in the Anglican church. The MD of the local parish church would just ring round to see who was available for each occasion. There would normally be about eight of us and we were paid £25 a head. The musical repertoire w...
by Dot
Sat Oct 18, 2008 7:18 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Visiting Choirs at Westminster Cathedral
Replies: 2
Views: 1417

Re: Visiting Choirs at Westminster Cathedral

Even better, contact precentor (see member list of this forum) or look for a contact on the westminster cathedral website quoted by his username. BTW, is anyone else having trouble using PMs on the new format? I can't make them recognise a username any more.

Dot
by Dot
Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:05 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Going flat
Replies: 6
Views: 2347

Re: Going flat

From one who is completely spooked by choirs / parts going flat, I ask the rest of you - does it affect you, as long as the choir maintains tuning between the parts? I'm genuinely interested to know. I sang in a choir that had a tendency to sing a little sharp - that was fine . When they went flat ....
by Dot
Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:11 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Good Friday Reproaches: to accompany?
Replies: 12
Views: 7423

Re: Good Friday Reproaches: to accompany?

Accurate tuning matters to a choir or group of instruments as much as accurate reading does to a reader. If pitch slips, so does the tone. What's the point of music if you don't bother about getting the notes right? Of course accompany, subtly, keeping the tone appropriate to the day. I was at Westm...
by Dot
Sun Mar 02, 2008 10:50 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Laetare or mothering!!?
Replies: 12
Views: 5175

Re: Laetare or mothering!!?

Parish Mass with the primary children last night: an affirming experience for all involved because of the good attendance and the supportive singing of the assembly. The ministry of the person in the pew is just as important as that of the people who lead (but who are supposed to be invisible!) Than...