Royal Wedding - Fri 12th October 2018 St George's Chapel, Windsor

[ardcarp]

Oh dear, sorry NV. No offence intended. Put it down to confused old age.

Yes the Finzi was a bit fast...but if that's how they like it, well fine.

[MickyD]

It's VERY difficult to find on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Distant-Land-.../dp/B0002847KY

Suite for string orchestra, based on British folk tunes (1971)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm4akzjsy4U

https://www.royal.uk/sites/default/files/media/order_of_service_0.pdf

NVV

Thank you very much!

[LMcD]

ITV are making much of the fact that up to 3 million people watched this wedding. I wonder what the other 62.5 million inhabitants of the UK were up to?

[muzzer]

ITV are making much of the fact that up to 3 million people watched this wedding. I wonder what the other 62.5 million inhabitants of the UK were up to?

Jobs of work? Not all of them, of course. There was also plenty of dry paint to watch.

[LMcD]

Jobs of work? Not all of them, of course. There was also plenty of dry paint to watch.

[Pulcinella]

ITV are making much of the fact that up to 3 million people watched this wedding. I wonder what the other 62.5 million inhabitants of the UK were up to?

According to the online BBC News site, we were all holding our breath when one of the pageboys stumbled (or whatever....I wasn't watching)!

[Peanut]

ITV are making much of the fact that up to 3 million people watched this wedding. I wonder what the other 62.5 million inhabitants of the UK were up to?

I wonder what the other 66.7 million inhabitants of the UK are doing right now as I listen to the repeat of the Choral Evensong broadcast from Gloucester... but it doesn't stop me enjoying the fine music within the service.

[LMcD]

My playful comments are intended to address the attitude of certain parties to certain events rather than the events themselves or those participating in them. On this occasion it was a royal wedding, but that same attitude, with its concomitant synthetic excitement and reverence, can be said to apply equally to 'Strictly Come Dancing', Brexit, or any number of sporting events. (Manchester United's poor start to the season seems to be a matter of particular concern to some folk). The amount of guff expands to fill the airtime available!

[vinteuil]

My playful comments are intended to address the attitude of certain parties to certain events rather than the events themselves or those participating in them. On this occasion it was a royal wedding, but that same attitude, with its concomitant synthetic excitement and reverence, can be said to apply equally to 'Strictly Come Dancing', Brexit, or any number of sporting events. (Manchester United's poor start to the season seems to be a matter of particular concern to some folk). The amount of guff expands to fill the airtime available!

“What I fault newspapers for is that day after day they draw our attention to insignificant things whereas only three or four times in our lives do we read a book in which there is something really essential. Since we tear the band off the newspaper so feverishly every morning, they ought to change things and put into the paper, oh, I don’t know, perhaps…Pascal’s Pensées ! …and then, in a gilt-edged volume that we open only once in ten years…we would read that the Queen of Greece has gone to Cannes or that the Princesse de Léon has given a costume ball. This way the proper proportions would be established.”

Charles Swann, in Proust's Swann's Way

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[LMcD]

An excited Mr J Dymond has just informed listeners to 'Today' that the Duchess of Sussex's pregnancy is 'momentous news'.
I rest my case.
BREAKING EDIT....I assume that this means that Eugenie will fall to No. 10 in the Succession Charts. I recall a sketch in which Kenneth Williams (playing the character of Chou En Ginsberg in 'Round The Horne' I think) calculates that it will only take another 32 assassinations for him to become queen.
BREAKING EDIT AMENDMENT...The character's correct style was 'Chou En Ginsberg M.A. (failed)'.

[Serial_Apologist]

An excited Mr J Dymond has just informed listeners to 'Today' that the Duchess of Sussex's pregnancy is 'momentous news'.
I rest my case.
BREAKING EDIT....I assume that this means that Eugenie will fall to No. 10 in the Succession Charts. I recall a sketch in which Kenneth Williams (playing the character of Chou En Ginsberg in 'Round The Horne' I think) calculates that it will only take another 32 assassinations for him to become queen.
BREAKING EDIT AMENDMENT...The character's correct style was 'Chou En Ginsberg M.A. (failed)'.

Harry learned how not to fire blanks while on duty in Iraq.

[Richard Tarleton]

Harry learned how not to fire blanks while on duty in Iraq.

I've a feeling it was the other sandpit....

[vinteuil]

I've a feeling it was the other sandpit....

... says something about me that I read that as a double-entendre...




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[Richard Tarleton]

... says something about me that I read that as a double-entendre...




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with a couple of relations in another country's armed forces in said sandpit(s), euphemisms of this kind help emails fly about without undue scrutiny....

[Wolsey]

This is all very entertaining, but ... this is a Choir forum, and the choir of St George's Chapel, directed by James Vivian and accompanied by Luke Bond, did a perfectly beautiful job, IMO, in enriching the wedding of two people with lovely music, performed to perfection. Some hired-in tenor lowered the tone I regret to say but, that apart, musically the service was all that one might want.

Hear, hear.