CE Wells Cathedral 4.vii.2018 [L]

[DracoM]

CE Wells Cathedral


Order of Service:


Introit: Grant, O Lord, we beseech thee (Gary Davison)
Responses: Howard Skempton
Psalms 22, 23 (Camidge, Camidge [adapted Elvey], Walford Davies)
First Lesson: Nehemiah 13: 15-31
Canticles: The Dallas Canticles (Howells)
Second Lesson: 2 Corinthians 2: 5-17
Anthem: I thank You God for most this amazing day (Whitacre)
Hymn: Christ be the Lord of all our days (Cloth Fair)


Voluntary: Fugue sur le thème du carillon des heures de la cathèdrale de Soissons, Op 12 (Duruflé)


Jeremy Cole (Assistant Organist)
Matthew Owens (Organist and Master of the Choristers)

[terratogen]

Psalm 22 to Camidge's chant might be my favorite thing in any psalter. Looking forward to this.

[DracoM]

Reminder: today @ 3.30 p.m.

[Keraulophone]

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While attending Evensong at Wells Cathedral on Monday (which was beautifully sung by the Vicars Choral), I noticed that today's service will be sung by the Senior Choristers and Vicars Choral. This seems to be the usual arrangement for these broadcasts from Wells.

Next week's CE broadcast from Truro Cathedral will be the first to be sung jointly by all our boy and girl choristers and the back row.

The BBC team will stay in Truro overnight to broadcast the choir's evening concert live on R3 (7.30 pm, Thursday 12th July - programme to follow).

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[DracoM]

Excellent news.

[weston752]

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While attending Evensong at Wells Cathedral on Monday (which was beautifully sung by the Vicars Choral), I noticed that today's service will be sung by the Senior Choristers and Vicars Choral. This seems to be the usual arrangement for these broadcasts from Wells.

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That's interesting - because yesterday Wells Cathedral put this up on Facebook:

Once again we're delighted to welcome BBC Radio 3 tomorrow when Evensong will be broadcast live from Wells Cathedral. The service will be sung by our Girl Choristers and Vicars Choral.
Those wishing to join the service need to be seated by 3.15pm in the Nave. All welcome!

[DracoM]

So does that mean that all their 'Senior' Choristers are girls? Or............well, what?

[jean]

Does it really matter?

[DracoM]

Well, the live broadcast has cleared it up by pointing out that the service is being sung by BOTH girls AND boys with the Men.

[Keraulophone]

The service will be sung by our Girl Choristers and Vicars Choral

The editor of that facebook page couldn’t have consulted their service booklet for July from which I quoted or have witnessed, as I did on Monday afternoon, those senior girls and boys walking in crocodile from their rehearsal (presumably for today’s service - to which I am yet to listen).

[DracoM]

Got to say that in the past month or so - and I will try to do it more regularly - consulting the foundation's website has been more accurate than R3's published list.

Now, of course, changes have to be made in a cathedral / college list etc from time to time which the BBC can't be up with, I do appreciate that, but of late a number of significant details on their site have been proved 'approximate' or plain wrong!

[oddoneout]

Got to say that in the past month or so - and I will try to do it more regularly - consulting the foundation's website has been more accurate than R3's published list.

Now, of course, changes have to be made in a cathedral / college list etc from time to time which the BBC can't be up with, I do appreciate that, but of late a number of significant details on their site have been proved 'approximate' or plain wrong!

If they can't even keep up with the schedule timings it's no wonder such details as programme content go astray. A quarter of an hour after CE started Afternoon Concert was apparently still on air.
Thought the singing was impressive, but found the effect of a wandering mike rather unsettling - variable balance and volume between clergy/precentor, and choir(which at times sounded rather distant)

[DracoM]

Yes, for some reason, it all seemed a bit ad hoc sound-wise - as if they'd only just arrived and had been in a bit of a rush to get set-up.
But those choristers knew what they were about.

[Vox Humana]

I am given to understand that the service was sung in the nave.

[Nazard]

The editor of that facebook page couldn’t have consulted their service booklet for July from which I quoted or have witnessed, as I did on Monday afternoon, those senior girls and boys walking in crocodile from their rehearsal (presumably for today’s service - to which I am yet to listen).

This would not be the first time that the Wells Cathedral Facebook page has got such details wrong. I remember an occasion a few years back when a service was advertised as an Evensong when it was a Eucharist, at the wrong start time and with the wrong set of choristers.

Incidentally, it was my understanding that some sort of pattern was emerging at Wells in that they would 'rotate' the forces for each broadcast: one year would be sung by the boys, the next by the girls, and the next by the senior choristers. That way, both top lines were still featured as their own identity, and each boy and girl chorister would be part of the broadcast two years out of three. Which seems a neat solution. Whether this is actually the case, I cannot confirm, but I certainly remember hearing it discussed at one point.