Music at a....certain event

[greenilex]

Nice bit of cello, though.

[Ein Heldenleben]

Good Hymn choice , thought the Gospel choir were outstanding ...

[jean]

Loved the Handel, and the Tallis, and the Boyce.

Gosepl choirs not really my thing. But what a sermon!

[Ein Heldenleben]

Yep. Great Sermon . I wonder if C of E sermons were a bit more Bishop Curry and a little less Rev Ascoyne they might bump up the congregation numbers . Loved the Balm of Gilead reference - but wondered whether the audience might take this as name checking A Handmaid's Tale..

[Constantbee]

Flowers by Philippa Craddock, who I've never heard of but have now. LOTS of foliage - all locally sourced and somewhere in the arrangement some hornbeam. You don't see that very often. Sermon a bit ott for me , but music well worth staying tuned in for. The specially commissioned trumpet fanfare was good.

[Bryn]

Flowers by Philippa Craddock, who I've never heard of but have now. LOTS of foliage - all locally sourced and somewhere in the arrangement some hornbeam. You don't see that very often. Sermon a bit ott for me , but music well worth staying tuned in for. The specially commissioned trumpet fanfare was good.

There are fastigiate hornbeam along the Eton College (as against Windsor) Long Walk. Perhaps that was the rationale.

[Nick Armstrong]

But what a sermon!

Terrific. ("With this, I'll sit down - we gotta get y'all married" ! )

Just catching up (in order, as with R3, Young Musician etc, to avoid all the TV presentational guff) .... That preacher was The Real Thing. What a breath of fresh air.

And I'll take "Stand By Me" over the Rutter any day of the week!

..... oh and yes, great to hear Handel before (David Blackadder nailed his trumpet obligato nervelessly even better than Elin MT sang, I thought), Tallis during and Boyce after. Perfect.

[LMcD]

I shall be eternally grateful to whoever (whomever?) decided to include in yesterday's 6.00 p.m.news on Radio 4 the fact that the cellist was black. I must have another look at the Young Musician final in order to reassess his performance of the movement from the Elgar cello concerto.

[Finzi4ever]

Terrific. ("With this, I'll sit down - we gotta get y'all married" ! )

Just catching up (in order, as with R3, Young Musician etc, to avoid all the TV presentational guff) .... That preacher was The Real Thing. What a breath of fresh air.

And I'll take "Stand By Me" over the Rutter any day of the week!

..... oh and yes, great to hear Handel before (David Blackadder nailed his trumpet obligato nervelessly even better than Elin MT sang, I thought), Tallis during and Boyce after. Perfect.

At the time, until I saw her, I didn't believe it was Elin MT singing...(just me?)

[BBMmk2]

Terrific. ("With this, I'll sit down - we gotta get y'all married" ! )

Just catching up (in order, as with R3, Young Musician etc, to avoid all the TV presentational guff) .... That preacher was The Real Thing. What a breath of fresh air.

And I'll take "Stand By Me" over the Rutter any day of the week!

..... oh and yes, great to hear Handel before (David Blackadder nailed his trumpet obligato nervelessly even better than Elin MT sang, I thought), Tallis during and Boyce after. Perfect.

First time I heard the Boyce. Quite enjoyed that. All the music was lovely!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I shall be eternally grateful to whoever (whomever?) decided to include in yesterday's 6.00 p.m.news on Radio 4 the fact that the cellist was black. I must have another look at the Young Musician final in order to reassess his performance of the movement from the Elgar cello concerto.

whomever

As for the black reference, I agree that this is irrelevant, and a kind of inverted racism. Many of the BBC commentators merely regurgitate the first think that entered their tiny brains.

[Bryn]

whomever

As for the black reference, I agree that this is irrelevant, and a kind of inverted racism. Many of the BBC commentators merely regurgitate the first think that entered their tiny brains.

Do you really think that Sheku's skin tone was not a consideration when it came to choosing a cellist for the job? What I have more trouble with is the Duchess of Sussex's reference to herself as being "biracial". As any geneticist worth their salt will advise, there are no races within the species Homo sapiens. "Bi-ethnic", maybe, but "biracial"? It's just not possible.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

whomever

Really?

"Who decided this?" "S/he did."

"Whom decided this?" "Her/Him did."

[BBMmk2]

HRH The Duchess of Sussexphoned him up herself!

[MrGongGong]

whomever

As for the black reference, I agree that this is irrelevant, and a kind of inverted racism. Many of the BBC commentators merely regurgitate the first think that entered their tiny brains.

Here we go again

It's NOT irrelevant if you were young and black and wanting to play an instrument.
It's not "inverted racism" or anything of the sort