CE Canterbury Cathedral on Easter Day 2024

[DracoM]

CE Canterbury Cathedral on Easter Day 2024

Order of Service:

Introit: Jesus Christ is risen today (C.V. Stanford)
Responses: Smith
Office hymn: All praise to Christ, our Lord and king divine (Engelberg)
Psalm: 66 vv.1-11 (C.V. Stanford)
First Lesson: Ezekiel 37:1-14
Canticles: Stanford in A
Second Lesson: Luke 24:13-35
Anthem: Ye choirs of New Jerusalem (C.V. Stanford)
Hymn: Thine be the glory (Maccabaeus)
Voluntary: Postlude in D minor, op. 105, no. 6 (C.V. Stanford)

Jamie Rogers (Assistant Director of Music)
David Newsholme (Director of Music)

[cat]

This will be the third live broadcast of the day for the choir, who are also doing a Eucharist service at 8:10am on Radio 4 and another Eucharist at 10am televised on BBC 1.

[DracoM]

Ridiculous over-exploitation or.............necessary? Hmm.

[Finzi4ever]

This will be the third live broadcast of the day for the choir, who are also doing a Eucharist service at 8:10am on Radio 4 and another Eucharist at 10am televised on BBC 1.

It was in fact just two: the 8.10am R4 and 10am BBCTV were the same service (Live on R4). Can anyone explain the waving of Vatican colours throughout the televised broadcast? Nearly as baffling as the Lanquetuit D major Toccata being announced as Tournemire Improv. on VP ('shurely shom mishtak', 'as any fule kno')

[mopsus]

Can anyone explain the waving of Vatican colours throughout the televised broadcast?

Maybe just that white/gold is the liturgical palette for major feasts. Especially welcome after the dull purple in Lent and then maybe undyed textiles in Passiontide. At the church I attended there was a mechanism which whisked away the purple veils from statues that were too high to reach, as the Gloria sounded at the Easter Vigil.

[Finzi4ever]

It's not the colours I'm puzzled by (clearly Eastertide appropriate), but rather the ribbon flapping!

[cat]

It was in fact just two: the 8.10am R4 and 10am BBCTV were the same service (Live on R4).

No, the R4 and the TV broadcasts had the same order of service but were both broadcast live. If you listen back to them you will notice the differences, for example different people giving the readings.

[mopsus]

It's not the colours I'm puzzled by (clearly Eastertide appropriate), but rather the ribbon flapping!

I haven't seen the programme but I wonder whether someone thought just pointing some cameras at a church service, even one for Easter Day, was a bit static and decided it needed more visual interest in terms of movement.