Politically themed Choral Evensong

[Pulcinella]

From today's Times:

The parish church of St Bartholomew the Great, the oldest in the City of London, is holding a politically themed choral evensong on Thursday, with all the music by composers who share a surname with a former prime minister. The responses are by Sarah MacDonald, the psalm chants by Conrad Eden and William Russell, the canticles by Hugh Blair (in B minor, not J Major) and the anthem will be A New Song by James MacMillan. At least that’s one group who will be singing from the same hymnsheet on election night.

[oddoneout]

An interesting idea. Not CE,but singing songs from Les Mis last weekend seemed appropriate somehow...

[AuntDaisy]

After yesterday's manifestation, would Robert Johnson's "I give you a new commandment" be suitable?

I give you a new commandment, that ye
love one another even as I have loved you.
By this all men shall know that ye are my
disciples, if ye love one another even as
I have loved you.

[Cockney Sparrow]

............... the canticles by Hugh Blair (in B minor, not J Major) ................

Love it !

[mopsus]

It was noticed at the time that Westminster Abbey (or was it St Paul's?) had Blair in B minor on the music list for the weekend after the 1997 General Election. Actually St Bartholomew's could have had a psalm chant by Gladstone's son as well!

[french frank]

After yesterday's manifestation, would Robert Johnson's "I give you a new commandment" be suitable?

Or even contemporary and fellow lutenist John Wilson's Psalterium Carolinum, the devotions of His Sacred Majestie in his solitude and suffering,

[AuntDaisy]

Or even contemporary and fellow lutenist John Wilson's Psalterium Carolinum, the devotions of His Sacred Majestie in his solitude and suffering,

Lovely.
Serendipitously, John Wilson's "Stay, O stay" & "Beauty which all men admire" are coming up on CD2.

(BTW this RJ was Scottish & a century earlier).

[french frank]

(BTW this RJ was Scottish & a century earlier).

I did not check and assumed it was this RJ. Altgether too much Johnson :-)

[Retune]

Marcus Walker, the Rector, is quite politically engaged on social media from the traditional Tory point of view, so it's a nice gesture to give some space to MacDonald and Blair. Perhaps after Thursday he'll be scheduling a Requiem Mass at some point? Victoria's Officium Defunctorum would be a good match for the excellent choir at St Bart's.

[AuntDaisy]

I did not check and assumed it was this RJ. Altgether too much Johnson :-)

[cat]

Another option would have been Reginald Thatcher's anthem, Come ye faithful.

[Vox Humana]

Some more possibilities here.

https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/David_Cameron