CE Gloucester Cathedral Wed, July 31st [L]

[DracoM]

CE Gloucester Cathedral [L]
The Three Choirs Festival


Order of Service:


Introit: The Strathclyde Motets (Benedicimus Deum Caeli) (James MacMillan)
Responses: Hunt
Psalms 149, 150 (Stanford, Sanders)
First Lesson: Isaiah: 2-10
Canticles: MacMillan
Second Lesson: Philippians: 1 1-11
Anthem: O give thanks unto the Lord (James MacMillan)
Hymn: King of Glory, King of Peace (Redland)


Voluntary: Meditation (James MacMillan)


Jonathan Hope (Assistant Director of Music)
Adrian Partington (Director of Music)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007684

[DracoM]

Those Macmillan canticles AGAIN - 2nd time in the last three CEs?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Those Macmillan canticles AGAIN - 2nd time in the last three CEs?

I presume that DoMs want to commemorate the composer's 60th birthday this month?

[Pulcinella]

And he is a special guest there:

https://3choirs.org/whats-on/james-macmillan-in-conversation/

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

£12 to hear him chatting???!!!

Den of thieves!

[DracoM]

£12 to hear him chatting???!!!

Den of thieves!

And his fee?

The BBC has - as usual - killed an event by ludicrously over-playing it.
The moon landing was different even though it got a bit wearisome.
But Macmillan............???

[Pulcinella]

And his fee?

The BBC has - as usual - killed an event by ludicrously over-playing it.
The moon landing was different even though it got a bit wearisome.
But Macmillan............???

I don't usually spring to the BBC's defence, but I think in this case you're being a little unfair, Draco.
Given that there is traditionally a broadcast from the Three Choirs, it's not the BBC's fault if this year that service happens to celebrate MacMillan.
And York gave the first broadcast performance very close to his birthday, which again seemed appropriate, especially as they had given the first performance too.

[Gabriel Jackson]

Those Macmillan canticles AGAIN - 2nd time in the last three CEs?

Is it, though? There is another MacMillan Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis...

[Nazard]

Is it, though? There is another MacMillan Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis...

I can confirm that it is, indeed, the setting of the Canticles composed in 2000 that is being performed at the Festival. Quite an epic...!

[Pulcinella]

Is it, though? There is another MacMillan Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis...

I wondered that too, especially as the new service we heard at York was specifically called Short Service.

PS: And Nazard has kindly answered for us!

[Miles Coverdale]

And his fee?

Is none of your business.

[DracoM]

It was NOT a serious question - the merest thinking aloud. £12 a head just for a pre-concert talk is a lot.

[oddoneout]

It was NOT a serious question - the merest thinking aloud. £12 a head just for a pre-concert talk is a lot.

If it had been a pre-concert talk it would have been free(included in the ticket price), but evensong isn't a concert so presumably the talk itself becomes the chargeable event?

[DracoM]

A peripheral for the Three Choirs? Or.............?

[Gabriel Jackson]

£12 a head just for a pre-concert talk is a lot.

It isn't a pre-concert talk. It's at 11 in the morning. Its one of a number of talks in the festival, the price of admission for each of them being £12