CE Chapel of The Queen's College, Oxford Wed, 15th Feb 2017

[DracoM]

It's not often that any inadequacies at all are noted in respect of a precentor (as opposed to a precentrix!)

Actually, it is not entirely true. Comments about both genders of 'cantors' [ yes, I know the term is more usually associated with synagogues and pretty well exclusively male, so go on, give me an alternative to ANY of those terms that is not gender-specific?] are not all that uncommon.

Or am I mis-reading the gently joking tone of a posting?

[Finzi4ever]

Great as the little Frobenius is, it won't cope terribly well with smiting 'their cattle also with hail-stones: and their flocks with hot thunderbolts'!

Choir worked superbly to deliver a convincing Ps 78, helped with an excellent/unusual choice of chants for that psalm. Werkprincip did what it could thanks to Maestro Bednall who has done so much already to continue and develop the best of the English tradition for the 21st Century.

[ardcarp]

An excellent CE. Most enjoyable.

Great as the little Frobenius is, it won't cope terribly well with smiting 'their cattle also with hail-stones: and their flocks with hot thunderbolts'!

OTOH, we were never in danger of swamping the choir with theatrical gestures. It was less successful IMHO at doing T.T. Noble which really needs a discreet snarl from a Willis-type reed here and there, not to mention a quiet 8' mush at others. But as you say, in DB's excellent hands, it did its best.