Taizé on Classic FM

[Nick Baty]

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Hi, Nick,

I noticed that, too, and found it quite cheering! Do we have a secret weapon for luring the unchurched into Sunday mass...?

[Crumhorn]

Hi, Nick,

Apart from the fact that I love Taize (especially when I get the chance to play some scrummy instrumental descants) we find a good practical spot for this kind of music is during the communion procession. The repetitive chant is ideal because people don't need their books to sing it. It also helps in another way. We've now adopted the official line (which Paul Inwood promoted in a recent M & L) and start our music as soon as the priest has taken communion. We finish in time to go up to receive at the end of the queue. A chant that can easily be stopped at almost any convenient moment is handy -- it avoids either overrunning (with the risk that musicians don't get to communion) or under-running by an embarrassing amount (though this is less of a problem -- after all, silence after communion is probably desirable!)

Regards from many at summer school -- and of course from us and from all at Stowmarket.