CE Chapel of Merton College, Oxford [L] Wed.7th July 2021

[DracoM]

CE Chapel of Merton College, Oxford [L] Wed.7th July 2021


Order of Service:


Introit: To thee, O Lord (Rachmaninov)
Responses: Smith
Psalm 119 vv.129-152 (Thalben-Ball, West, Jones)
First Lesson: Isaiah 26: 1-9
Canticles: Chichester Service (Berkeley)
Second Lesson: Romans 8: 12-17
Anthem: The House of the Mind (Howells)
Hymn: All my hope on God is founded (Michael)

Voluntary: Sonata No 1 in C minor, Op 2 (Allegro moderato e nobilmente) (Howells)


Kentaro Machida (Organ Scholar)
Simon Hogan (Organist)
Benjamin Nicholas (Director of Music)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000xlz5

[DracoM]

Early posting - bit busy early next week, so thought I'd get ahead with duties!

[mopsus]

Early posting - bit busy early next week, so thought I'd get ahead with duties!

Merton tell me this is off - too much COVID in Oxford. I don't know what will replace it.

It's a shame to lose the Berkeley service - his music has rather fallen out of the repertoire since his death, as he no longer ticks the 'living composer' box. He studied at Merton and retained a lifelong affection for the college.

[DracoM]

Aha!
And no sub?
Wonder what BBC have in mind?

On my records - could well be wrong - cannot see the last time Merton sang for us - anyone have better info?
So is / was this actually their first?

[subcontrabass]

Aha!
And no sub?
Wonder what BBC have in mind?

On my records - could well be wrong - cannot see the last time Merton sang for us - anyone have better info?
So is / was this actually their first?

Last live broadcast seems to be 28th October 2020 (repeated 1st November). Recording broadcast 13th & 17th January 2021. Previous broadcasts in 2018.

[DracoM]

Told you my records were a mess.......................

[mopsus]

Last live broadcast seems to be 28th October 2020 (repeated 1st November). Recording broadcast 13th & 17th January 2021. Previous broadcasts in 2018.

Merton first broadcast Choral Evensong in autumn 2011. (Though that was not the first CE broadcast from Merton College Chapel; the Arcadian Singers of Oxford, including a number of Mertonians, had broadcast one a few years earlier.)
I attended the 2011 service and a couple of other more recent broadcasts. They broadcast at least every other year and sometimes have recorded an evensong alongside the live one; they were to have done that this week. I'm a former member of the College and its chapel choir (in the pre-choral foundation days) and a Friend of Merton chapel choir, so I get informed - not always with much notice - about choir events.

[DracoM]

"Told you my records were a mess......................."

.................the again, if you also contrive to look in the WRONG section of your own docs, and then proclaim a truth, it's likely you will be doubly wrong...
- as I have just been / done in my previous very stupid assertion about Merton's appearances.........

btw - good webcasts on their site too.

[subcontrabass]

I see the BBC have found a suitable archive recording from Chester Cathedral.

[DracoM]

Thx for update.

[ocarina]

Told you my records were a mess.......................

You can probably forgive yourself this heinous misdemeanour! I’m sure we are collectively grateful for the generally accurate info shared usually

[DracoM]

Thx - appreciated.

[subcontrabass]

No information yet on the BBC CE webpage concerning the planned recording from Merton scheduled for broadcast on 25th August.