CE St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh Wed, 14th Aug 2019 [L]

[DracoM]

CE St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh

Order of Service:

Introit: Lift up your heads, O ye gates (Leighton)
Responses: Leighton
Office hymn: All praise to thee, for thou, O king divine (Engelberg)
Psalm 73, 74 (Smart, Garrett, Woodward)
First Lesson: Acts 21: 5-26
Canticles: Stainer in B flat
Second Lesson: Mark 10: 17-31
Anthem: For lo, I raise up (Stanford)
Hymn: Angel voices ever singing (Monk)

Voluntary: Flourish for an Occasion (Harris)

Joseph Beech (Assistant Master of the Music)
Duncan Ferguson (Organist and Master of the Music)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007kwl

[DracoM]

Reminder: today @ 3.30 pm.

[underthecountertenor]

Probably Joseph Beech's last act as AMOM at St Mary's: he starts duties as Sub-Organist at Durham Cathedral next month: https://www.durhamcathedral.co.uk/ne...rham-cathedral

[mw963]

I don't think I've ever heard the Stainer Canticles before - that top Bb near the end of the Mag came as a shock (in a nice way). What fun!

[mw963]

Oh dear, I wonder what happened to the Harris. Quick dive for the volume control to extinguish an otherwise enjoyable evensong.

[underthecountertenor]

Oh dear, I wonder what happened to the Harris. Quick dive for the volume control to extinguish an otherwise enjoyable evensong.

Change of personnel - I understand that Duncan Ferguson is unwell, so Joseph Beech was promoted to conducting duties and James Orford to the organ (as back-announced), hence the change of voluntary. The Leighton proved an appropriate bookend to the introit, I thought, and sounded great.

[DracoM]

Hmm. Well........interestingly, I thought the vol the best bit of the service. Choir tenors in good fettle.

[mw963]

.... but it's not really your "fare" is it DracoM.....

Laters - I should add that although I was personally disappointed with the change to the advertised voluntary, I say <<hats off>> to James Orford for stepping into the breach today so admirably.

[DracoM]

'My fare'?? Erm...........??

[mw963]

I would have said that your musical preferences are pretty plain to see to those of us who have been around for a while - just as mine are....

[DracoM]

I still have no clue what you mean!

[Nazard]

Many congratulations to both Joseph and James - both superb musicians, as evidenced in this broadcast.

[mopsus]

Somehow it didn't feel like Evensong to me without an Old Testament lesson. Is this an Episcopal Church of Scotland peculiarity?