CE Exeter Cathedral Wed, 29th April 2015

[DracoM]

CE Exeter Cathedral



Order of Service:



Introit: My Beloved Spake (Hadley)
Responses: Ayleward
Psalms 142, 143 (Flintoft, Keeton)
First Lesson: Exodus 33
Canticles: Collegium Regale (Howells)
Second Lesson: Luke 3:15-22
Anthem: Hear my Words (Parry)
Hymn: Ye Choirs of new Jerusalem (St. Fulbert)



Organ Voluntary: Sonata in G - first movement (Elgar)



Assistant Director of Music: David Davies
Director of Music: Andrew Millington

[bach736]

So farewell, Andrew Millington.
Thank you for everything you have done for Exeter.
With all our best wishes.

[ardcarp]

Have the D&C got round to appointing a successor yet?

[subcontrabass]

Have the D&C got round to appointing a successor yet?

Closing date for applications is 15th May.

[ardcarp]

Leaving it a bit late? Andrew expressed his wish to retire ages ago.

[Vox Humana]

This appeared on the cathedral website less than a week ago. Looks a bit too much like hard work for me. Great if you like lots of meetings though.

http://www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/_assets/recruitment/director-of-music/job%20description%20director%20of%20music%20exeter%20cathedral.pdf

[Keraulophone]

Great if you like lots of meetings though.

...thus:

'Hear my Words, ye People'.

(Though I know not whether his beloved spoke at all those meetings.)

[ardcarp]

This appeared on the cathedral website less than a week ago. Looks a bit too much like hard work for me. Great if you like lots of meetings though.

http://www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/_...0cathedral.pdf

Rather symptomatic of our times...especially the need to have 'policies' about everything. Hard to imagine Lionel Dakers (3 organists ago) knowing what a 'policy' was. The whole show ran on bonhommie and a certain competence.

I am amused by:

Undertake personal musical preparation and practice

(it's a bit sad if that has to be spelled out)

and even more by:

Take steps to establish the competence of deputy and visiting organists, as
necessary

(!)


Anyway, isn't it at all a bit last minute? Or will David Davies run the outfit during an inter-regnum?

[DracoM]

Reminder: today @ 3.30 p.m.

[DracoM]

Energetic, full-bodied singing, and, boy, those trebles had a serious work out or what!

Psalms OK-ish, but......

....the Parry is a tour de force: I particularly liked the way a decent number of the trebles had sonorous enough lower registers as well as bright tops to enrich the sound. The odd slip in tuning here and there, maybe, but they really had to sing from Coll Reg right through to that Parry, and then on to the final hymn, which took the music through a pretty close examination of every aspect of the treble range - and under pressure. Three cheers to them. Not much quiet stuff, but a real advertisement for Andrew Millington's tutoring. He will be missed.

[omega consort]

Just listening to it now on iplayer and have got as far as the Psalms which sound good to me....nice to hear the new 32' reed get an outing in the Hadley.
Is it my ears or is the alto part different to how it is normally written in the first (minor) chant, last quarter??

[ardcarp]

Only heard it in the car, but it sounded as if sung in the nave. Newly restored organ given some wellie.

http://www.harrisonorgans.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Exeter-Full.pdf

Article in the current Choir & Organ about it.

[Quintessentially]

Absolutely loved it 'wellie' and all - and more so for being from this part of the country. Here's also wishing AM an enriched and fulfilled retirement - perhaps he could offer workshops for trebles elsewhere in the land!

[Finzi4ever]

Energetic, full-bodied singing, and, boy, those trebles had a serious work out or what!

Psalms OK-ish, but......

...some lovely word painting in the accompaniment with plenty of contra-violone

[ardcarp]

...not to mention the Contra Trombone elsewhere in the service; a relatively recent toy for Exeter.