The Office of Tenebrae for Holy Week 28th March 2018

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  • Vox Humana
    Full Member
    • Dec 2012
    • 1253

    #16
    Originally posted by Miles Coverdale View Post
    Does that mean you think an edition should preserve the spelling found in each individual partbook, even when that spelling is different in each voice (as can be the case)? That way madness lies...
    Or when there are two or more sources, each with its own spellings.

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    • DracoM
      Host
      • Mar 2007
      • 12993

      #17
      Belated reminder - today @ 3.30 p.m.
      And it's LIVE!!

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      • ardcarp
        Late member
        • Nov 2010
        • 11102

        #18
        Good to hear expressive and often full-blooded singing from WCC, especially in the Victoria. Was anyone there in person? We got the strepitus!

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        • DracoM
          Host
          • Mar 2007
          • 12993

          #19
          Yes, the choir were both leaders, and the crowd, and the preachers. No holding back, particularly the pretty powerful back row. At times, maybe a little more than necessary? But I loved the structure and pacing. Brave cantor work from back and front rows. Fine less-is-more service.

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          • Lordgeous
            Full Member
            • Dec 2012
            • 836

            #20
            Good to hear the GM passion (excuse pun) is still in evidence at Westminster. All praise to Martin Baker.

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            • jonfan
              Full Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 1450

              #21
              Wow. Thrilling, passionate singing, plus suberb unobtrusive engineering. A fitting offering for the season plus last Sunday’s Holy Week programming. Radio 3 has come up with the goods this week and can (almost) be forgiven the repeats. How does Radio Times on its cover mark the central festival of the Christian year? With a bunny! Despair.
              Last edited by jonfan; 28-03-18, 21:37. Reason: Typo

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              • ardcarp
                Late member
                • Nov 2010
                • 11102

                #22
                With a bunny!
                ...but isn't that where the eggs come from?

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                • BBMmk2
                  Late Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 20908

                  #23
                  Damn, I forgot about this! However, I’ll be catching up, nonetheless!
                  Don’t cry for me
                  I go where music was born

                  J S Bach 1685-1750

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                  • Miles Coverdale
                    Late Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 639

                    #24
                    Originally posted by jonfan View Post
                    How does Radio Times on its cover mark the central festival of the Christian year? With a bunny! Despair.
                    I'm not quite sure why the Radio Times, which is a television and radio listings magazine, should feel the need to mark religious festivals of any kind, Christian or otherwise.
                    My boxes are positively disintegrating under the sheer weight of ticks. Ed Reardon

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                    • vinteuil
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 12955

                      #25
                      Originally posted by Miles Coverdale View Post
                      I'm not quite sure why the Radio Times, which is a television and radio listings magazine, should feel the need to mark religious festivals of any kind, Christian or otherwise.
                      ... thank you

                      What percentage of the UK population are truly church-going believing Christians? And I don't mean to include those who idly put 'C of E' on forms because it's what you do.



                      .

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                      • jonfan
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 1450

                        #26
                        Originally posted by Miles Coverdale View Post
                        I'm not quite sure why the Radio Times, which is a television and radio listings magazine, should feel the need to mark religious festivals of any kind, Christian or otherwise.
                        No it doesn’t but it sort of manages it at Christmas and after all Easter is what the holiday is called so perhaps occasionally recognise that fact rather a rabbit holding some eggs, which is a bit weird. As a listings magazine it can chose to feature a programme on its cover which might be a religious one.

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                        • vinteuil
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 12955

                          #27
                          Originally posted by jonfan View Post
                          . .after all Easter is what the holiday is called so perhaps occasionally recognise that fact rather a rabbit holding some eggs, which is a bit weird.
                          ... from the link in my #25 above we learn that bunnies - or leastwise hares - were what Easter was about before the Christians came and took over the festival -

                          'In Northern Europe, Easter imagery often involves hares and rabbits. Citing folk Easter customs in Leicestershire, England where "the profits of the land called Harecrop Leys were applied to providing a meal which was thrown on the ground at the 'Hare-pie Bank'", late 19th-century scholar Charles Isaac Elton theorizes a connection between these customs and the worship of Ēostre. In his late 19th-century study of the hare in folk custom and mythology, Charles J. Billson cites numerous incidents of folk custom involving the hare around the period of Easter in Northern Europe. Billson says that "whether there was a goddess named Ēostre, or not, and whatever connection the hare may have had with the ritual of Saxon or British worship, there are good grounds for believing that the sacredness of this animal reaches back into an age still more remote, where it is probably a very important part of the great Spring Festival of the prehistoric inhabitants of this island."

                          Some scholars have linked customs and imagery involving hares to Ēostre and the Norse goddess Freyja. Writing in 1972, John Andrew Boyle cites commentary contained within an etymology dictionary by A. Ernout and A. Meillet, where the authors write that "Little else ... is known about [Ēostre], but it has been suggested that her lights, as goddess of the dawn, were carried by hares. And she certainly represented spring fecundity, and love and carnal pleasure that leads to fecundity." Boyle responds that nothing is known about Ēostre outside of Bede's single passage, that the authors had seemingly accepted the identification of Ēostre with the Norse goddess Freyja, yet that the hare is not associated with Freyja either. Boyle writes that "her carriage, we are told by Snorri, was drawn by a pair of cats — animals, it is true, which like hares were the familiars of witches, with whom Freyja seems to have much in common." However, Boyle adds that "on the other hand, when the authors speak of the hare as the 'companion of Aphrodite and of satyrs and cupids' and point out that 'in the Middle Ages it appears beside the figure of Luxuria', they are on much surer ground and can adduce the evidence of their illustrations." '

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                          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                            Gone fishin'
                            • Sep 2011
                            • 30163

                            #28
                            Originally posted by jonfan View Post
                            No it doesn’t but it sort of manages it at Christmas ...
                            Does it?

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                            • DracoM
                              Host
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 12993

                              #29
                              And for RT, a rabbit / hare would be seen as PC, and far more ideologically 'neutral' than eg a cross? I mean, think what \ strepitus THAT would cause?

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                              • jean
                                Late member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 7100

                                #30
                                Give RT some credit, though - they never call the Saturday before Easter Easter Saturday.

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