CE Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge [L] 3.7.24

[DracoM]

CE Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge [L] 3.7.24

Order of Service:

Introit: Be still, my soul (Whitlock)
Responses: Radcliffe
Psalm 18 (Jacob, Buck, Walmisley, Ouseley, Hull)
First Lesson: Isaiah 26: 1-9
Canticles: Blair in B minor
Second Lesson: Romans 8: 12-27
Anthem: Lord, I call upon thee (Bairstow)

Voluntary: Evening Song (Bairstow)

Paul Greally (Organ Scholar)
Daniel Hyde (Director of Music)

[Pulcinella]

More Bairstow?
Must be because it's his 150th anniversary year: born 22 August 1874.

[Guest]

Noooo!

[jonfan]

Beautifully delivered service in every way topped by a deliciously gentle Bairstow voluntary.

[Choral Enthusiast]

It was terrific! A lovely service, beautifully sung. Fantastic work from the organ scholar as well.

[Guest]

Sounds like it was lovely. Sadly I was unable to listen.

[Simon Biazeck]

Sounds like it was lovely. Sadly I was unable to listen.

Are you ever free on a Wednesday at that time? When was the last time that you were able to listen "live"? (There's always a delay with a digital signal, of course.)

[Guest]

Are you ever free on a Wednesday at that time? When was the last time that you were able to listen "live"? (There's always a delay with a digital signal, of course.)

Frustratingly, I only seem to be free when there isn't a live broadcast!

[vinteuil]

When was the last time that you were able to listen "live"? (There's always a delay with a digital signal, of course.)

... I wd assume that God lives in an Eternal Present, so all Time is the same for Him : if good enough for Him, should be good enough for the rest of us (including SH Otley) - and we can happily listen whenever we like. (And as Simon Biazeck points out, nothing 'live' is really 'live'... )

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[Alain Maréchal]

I can never hear Radio Three "Live", but I am intrigued by this discussion. I am sympathetic to SH Otley's plight, since I would prefer to be part of a virtual congregation, but am grateful for small mercies. How much of a delay exists? I am ignorant of the technicalities. Is it possible that a listener on radio (FM or DAB) would hear the Dean pronounce a blessing standing at the High Altar fractionally before somebody at the West End of the Chapel? Although, as M. Vinteuil points out, the only Person (or Persons, depending on one's understanding of the Trinity, or Unity) for whom worship is intended receives it however, and whenever. ( I can see I should talk this over with my Pastor).

A quite separate but related matter - if one sees a blessing pronounced on television, has one been blessed?

[Guest]

... I wd assume that God lives in an Eternal Present, so all Time is the same for Him : if good enough for Him, should be good enough for the rest of us (including SH Otley) - and we can happily listen whenever we like. (And as Simon Biazeck points out, nothing 'live' is really 'live'... )

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A very valid point I have to say. Just my personal preference to listen live. And I don't count a few seconds' delay as not being live.

Believe me, it is HARD not listening. Where I live there is no decent liturgical music, and my skills in that regard are not wanted. A pianist struggling on the organ can't be displaced in favour of a qualified organist as they might leave the parish.

There is also the fact that a recording might not be what actually happened - something may have been re-recorded as I remember happening at Bristol Cathedral in the 1980s when someone dropped a metal glasses case during the voluntary at an evensong that was being recorded. The producer asked for a retake.

[mopsus]

There is also the fact that a recording might not be what actually happened - something may have been re-recorded as I remember happening at Bristol Cathedral in the 1980s when someone dropped a metal glasses case during the voluntary at an evensong that was being recorded. The producer asked for a retake.

There was a recent instance in a broadcast from St Pancras in London, where the voluntary was badly disrupted by external noise and was re-recorded for the repeat and for BBC Sounds. I recall also a 'revised repeat' a few years ago. I listened closely to work out what had changed and I think there was a slight abridgement, such as cutting out a verse of a hymn originally broadcast, perhaps because the live broadcast had run over the hour.

[Simon Biazeck]

The choir & organ were sublime. The beautiful introit by Percy Whitlock was new to me, as was the anthem by Bairstow. Lovely psalms too!

[Guest]

Sounds as though it was a lovely service. I'm glad people enjoyed it. I don't think I've come across the introit or the voluntary.....

[DracoM]

Q: if you had NOT known this was KCC in this CE, how would you have reacted?

Didn't sound very KCC to me.