CE RSCM Millennium Youth Choir Wed, 16th Aug 2017

[DracoM]

CE RSCM Millennium Youth Choir
In Lincoln Cathedral


Order of Service:


Introit: O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit (Tallis)
Responses: Richard Shephard
Psalms 23, 24 (Martin, Barnby)
First Lesson: 1 Samuel 20: 18-42
Canticles: Jesus College Service (Mathias)
Second Lesson: Acts 2: 1-13
Anthem: Der Geist hilft (Bach)
Hymn: Father, Lord of all creation (Abbot's Leigh)

Organ Voluntary: Final (Symphonie VI) (Vierne)

Organist: Daniel Cook
Director of Music: Adrian Lucas

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b090vc1h

[DracoM]

Reminder: today @ 3.30 p.m.

[DracoM]

Well, erm.................
Tallis sounded under-rehearsed and even a bit feeble.

Mathias FAR better disciplined, sung with more oomph and commitment, and a true measure of the choir's enthusiasm. Sounded fun and joyous.

The Bach didn't. Now, I truly do appreciate you have to give such a choir a real challenge, otherwise why gather for one of the courses, and indeed the Bach was such a challenge, but it sounded a bit of a scramble and uncomfortable, so much so that I seriously began to wonder if it was a good choice for the service.

[FunJohnny]

Agreed in full with this review. Nothing special really - but the organ vol at the end was superb!

[UmTheMagnificat]

Nothing special??

Agreed in full with this review. Nothing special really - but the organ vol at the end was superb!

Nothing special except an evensong better than many I've heard from professionals over the years, sung by an SATB choir of young people, mostly under 18?

The organist and Director were professional musicians, but to hear that quality from students is most encouraging in spite of disparaging comments on their every effort, from anonymous online users.

[DracoM]

<< Mathias FAR better disciplined, sung with more oomph and commitment, and a true measure of the choir's enthusiasm. Sounded fun and joyous. >>

Erm.................disparaging?

[UmTheMagnificat]

I'll direct your attention to the rest of that comment then. And who judges a serious piece of liturgical music making by its "oomph"?

[DracoM]

I do.

Energy, impact, call to prayer through joy, enlivening the Word.............all that is done via many things including 'oomph'.

[mfordy]

Only an uninformed amateur would use the word "oomph." Mr. Lucas and Mr. Cook need do little more than chortle at such nonsense.

[edashtav]

Only an uninformed amateur would use the word "oomph." Mr. Lucas and Mr. Cook need do little more than chortle at such nonsense.

Move on mfordy; most 21st century folk don't starch their collars.

[Vox Humana]

Nothing special except an evensong better than many I've heard from professionals over the years, sung by an SATB choir of young people, mostly under 18?

The organist and Director were professional musicians, but to hear that quality from students is most encouraging in spite of disparaging comments on their every effort, from anonymous online users.

I agree. For a choir of obviously relatively inexperienced youngsters on a course I thought they did well. So what if some of the voices were a little "raw" and the tuning a bit wayward? What else would you expect? I can assure you I have heard more tentative performances of the Tallis from experienced choirs and I thought they did very well with a piece that (judging on past hearings) is oddly tricky to pull off completely successfully. Goodness knows why: it looks easy enough. I was also profoundly thankful that the Bach was sung at a sensible speed. I enjoyed the service and, in the circumstances, didn't mind the rough edges.

https://www.rscm.com/myc/

[jonfan]

I thoroughly enjoyed this service. The singing was well shaped and beautifully responsive. The psalms sung to classic chants were well expressed. The Bach was superbly sung. The upper voices were confidently blended, but the young tenors and basses also sang with great presence. I have several cds of the MYC and today's service shows the standard is being maintained and enhanced, especially so if this service was prepared in a short space of time. Beautifully read lesson one as well as exciting organ playing from DC.

[mfordy]

Move on mfordy; most 21st century folk don't starch their collars.

I see that my reply to this irrelevant puerility has been removed. The photo remains though. Interesting.

[french frank]

I see that my reply to this irrelevant puerility has been removed. The photo remains though. Interesting.

It was removed because it was felt that your second contribution was just disrupting the discussion (I say nothing of the first). You would have received an email reesponse but the address you gave didn't check out with the verifier. If you write to me at friendsofradio3@for3.org we could discuss it further, but joining the forum just to pick a fight is generally not approved of.

[mfordy]

It was removed because it was felt that your second contribution was just disrupting the discussion (I say nothing of the first). You would have received an email reesponse but the address you gave didn't check out with the verifier. If you write to me at friendsofradio3@for3.org we could discuss it further, but joining the forum just to pick a fight is generally not approved of.

I was not picking a fight, merely correcting the view of someone who was uninformed. I have received emails from the forum already - the address I gave is correct.