CE Chapel of Eton College Wed, 9th Aug 2023 @ 4 p.m.[R]

[DracoM]

CE Chapel of Eton College Wed, 9^th Aug 2023 @ 4 p.m.[R]
Members of the Rodolfus Foundation Choral Course

Order of Service:

Introit: My heart, O God (Lucy Walker)
Responses: Kerensa Briggs
Psalms 47, 48 (Peasgood, Garrett)
First Lesson: Isaiah 49: 1-7
Canticles: Collegium Magdalanae Oxoniense (Leighton)
Second Lesson: 1 John 1 vv.1-10
Anthem: God is gone up (Finzi)
Hymn: How shall I sing that majesty (Coe Fen)

Voluntary: Rhapsody No 4 (Howells)

Anna Lapwood (Conductor)
Dónal McCann (Organist)

Recorded 31 July

[DracoM]

Reminder: today @ 4 p.m.

[jonfan]

Very enjoyable with muscular, committed singing. Coe Fen - is there a better match of tune and text? (Is there a better tune?) Anna Lapwood has a skill inspiring everyone to give their all. I’m very glad the recent very upsetting experience is behind her.

[ardcarp]

Agree about Coe Fen. It is the sort of tune that one might have found in what used to be called The Public School Hymn Book, but which now has the more PC name of Hymns for Church and School.

Anna L did a great job with a choir that does not meet regularly. One of my daughters sang on an Eton Choir Couse many years ago in Ralph Allwood's days, and it was a great experience for her.

I've probably posted this before, but Eton College Chapel is a good place to sing with its faux fan vaulting. (Reinforced concrete copy of Kings!)

[mopsus]

Agree about Coe Fen. It is the sort of tune that one might have found in what used to be called The Public School Hymn Book, but which now has the more PC name of Hymns for Church and School.

And indeed the composer Ken Naylor was a schoolteacher. He wrote Coe Fen sometime in the 1950s when teaching at the Leys School in Cambridge and it made its way into the public domain via at least one school-specific collection.

Having been brought up on good old English Hymnal and Ancient and Modern Revised, I find it too gushy for my taste. It isn't even my favourite tune for 'How shall I sing that Majesty'

[jonfan]

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Having been brought up on good old English Hymnal and Ancient and Modern Revised, I find it too gushy for my taste. It isn't even my favourite tune for 'How shall I sing that Majesty'
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Fascinated to learn what your favourite tune is M. Tallis’s Third Mode Melody was a bad misfit in the New EH, surely something transcendent to fit the text is needed.

[torontonian]

Agreed ...... Coe Fenn is a fine tune. However, I'd like to share with you another tune ..... 'Hurrle" by the Canadian/Toronto organist/composer
Walter MacNutt. It was written especially for "How shall I sing that majesty" (and what a fine text it is!), and named after a former organist of St.
James' Cathedral in Torpntp. MacNutt also wrote several other fine hymn tunes, PS MacNutt was organist for many years at St. Thomas'
Anglican Church in Toronto, a position once held by Gerald Moore.

[ardcarp]

Any idea where to find Hurle, and indeed any of MacNutt's tunes?

[torontonian]

The only source of which I'm aware is the Anglican Church of Canada book "Common Praise".in which there are two
tunes of MacNutt ..... Hurrle and Panis Vitae. I've just found the following on YouTube that will give you an idea of Hurrle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RVlHzd0CN,

[ArpSchnitger]

https://youtu.be/k-kPTb5xO9Q (hymn starts at 1:27)

This is “Lo! The Pilgrim Magi” to MacNutt’s tune “Whitworth”, listed https://hymnary.org/tune/whitworth_macnutt
Set to other words, the music can be found (and downloaded) at https://hymnsforworship.org/sdah-353...r-help-people/

[Pulcinella]

Am I right in thinking that MacNutt was affectionately known as Bunny?
I'm pretty sure I came across his name (and probably his hymn tunes) when I used to sing in Fredericton Cathedral choir in Canada as a graduate student.