CE Holy Trinity Church, Prince Consort Road, London [R]

[DracoM]

CE Holy Trinity Church, Prince Consort Road, London [R]
Wed, 17^th July 2024 @ 3 p.m.

Imperial College Chamber Choir

Order of Service:

Introit: Love bade me welcome (David Hurd)
Responses: Joanna Forbes L’Estrange
Psalm 89 (Maria Portela)
First Lesson: Isaiah 49: 8-13
Canticles: Truro Service (Gabriel Jackson)
Second Lesson: 2 Corinthians 8: 1-11
Anthem: Salve regina (Poulenc)

Voluntary: Festive March in D (Smart)

Simon Hogan, Timothy Roe (Organists)
Patrick Allies (Director of Music)

[jonfan]

A refreshing and adventurous choice of music very well performed, just the occasional tuning issue but not in the Poulenc, whose music is often a nightmare to keep in tune. The spoken element, especially the final prayers, spoke to me. Loved the jaunty voluntary!

[Guest]

Recorded!! Grr.

[vinteuil]

Recorded?

... the clue is in the [R].
CE Holy Trinity Church, Prince Consort Road, London [R]

16-07-24, 10:02
CE Holy Trinity Church, Prince Consort Road, London [R]

(I don't think God minds... )

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[Guest]

... the clue is in the [R].
CE Holy Trinity Church, Prince Consort Road, London [R]

16-07-24, 10:02
CE Holy Trinity Church, Prince Consort Road, London [R]

(I don't think God minds... )

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Typo in my original comment. Should have been an exclamation mark!

[oddoneout]

I see that the responses by Joanna Forbes L'Estrange are listed on the schedule but not on "Music Played". The name caught my eye though as A. L'Estrange appears in the line up for Sunday's morning Prom with Kings Singers and Voces8. It would seem that he is other half of Joanna Forbes of that ilk, "one of the Royal School of Church Music’s best-selling composers" apparently, although I don't think I've come across the name before.

[DracoM]

Moi? Baffled - sorry!

[mopsus]

I see that the responses by Joanna Forbes L'Estrange are listed on the schedule but not on "Music Played". The name caught my eye though as A. L'Estrange appears in the line up for Sunday's morning Prom with Kings Singers and Voces8. It would seem that he is other half of Joanna Forbes of that ilk, "one of the Royal School of Church Music’s best-selling composers" apparently, although I don't think I've come across the name before.

Alexander L'Estrange has written a couple of cantatas which I've come across. Zimbe! is a medley of African songs and is often performed - it features in a local Come and Sing event this autumn. Ahoy! uses sea shanties and the like and I felt was less successful. (Also when we did it we felt we had to censor the words because of Irish sensitivies!)

Being one of the RSCM bestsellers may not be such a big claim. The RSCM doesn't publish a huge amount of music under its own imprint, and it has certain composers it particularly likes to commission works from. Having said that I've done her Responses and one or two anthems by her and they were singable and went down well.

The family is multi-generational when it comes to composing. One of their sons wrote a piece that got performed while he was a chorister at St John's Cambridge, and Joanna's father is also a composer (including Kilvaree*, almost certainly the most difficult hymn tune ever to be printed in a standard hymn book.)

*for the curious, it's the tune to Hymn 141 in the 3rd edition (only) of the Church Hymnary.

[DracoM]