CE St Matthew's Church, Northampton 21st Sept 2011

[DracoM]

Mirabile scriptu!

[ardcarp]

Oh that my Latin had not stopped at O-level.

[Mary Chambers]

Oh that my Latin had not stopped at O-level.

It's no harder than O-level, ardcarp

[ardcarp]

Agreed. I've got it all so far, but for the staggeringly witty rejoinder I would have liked to compose in that learned tongue, I'm au bout de mon latin

[Simon]

Not always easy, ardcarp. For difficile est quae acceperis nisi exerceas tenere. as Pliny junior said. And how true!!

Edit. No he didn't! Lol. I checked the authorship cos I wasn't 100% sure and found I'd misremembered the quote. "Tenere" should be the third word.

[Vile Consort]

I am afraid my Latin scholarship is limited to a year's study in the second form and some miserable marks in the end of year exam.

[bach736]

I am afraid my Latin scholarship is limited to a year's study in the second form and some miserable marks in the end of year exam.

Certus sum eos fuisse dies optimos meae vitae - sed non possum recordare ullos eorum!

[greenilex]

Linguam odi et amo.

Logos pros ton theon

but used as a putdown?

[Finzi4ever]

Certus sum eos fuisse dies optimos meae vitae - sed non possum recordare ullos eorum!

...that will doubtless be down to the large quantities of ale quaffed in the interim, if you are anything like the rest of us church music junkies.

[ardcarp]

Logos pros ton theon

It's all Greek to me.

[bach736]

...that will doubtless be down to the large quantities of ale quaffed in the interim, if you are anything like the rest of us church music junkies.

Vicis tua. Salve!

[bach736]

Non canis, non canis, non canis diutius!

[Miles Coverdale]

Quanti canicule ille in finestere?

[bach736]

Sorry, MC, it's not for sale. Liked the pun though.

[decantor]

There is one bit of Britten which just HAS to be sung either by a boy or by a pure, innocent and slightly vulnerable-sounding soprano; and that is the 'Oh dear white children casual as birds' from the Hymn to St Cecilia. I just want to die when I hear it done (for instance) by the BBC Singers.

I couldn't help wondering if ardcarp indulged in a little domestic self-flagellation by listening to Afternoon on 3 last Monday. The BBC National Chorus of Wales gave us Cecilia, and the above passage, taken at a cracking pace, was rendered by a feisty soprano who added liberal vibrato to some crotchets and all notes longer. The effect was rather like "O fear night's hoodies, arrogant as crows". And if ardcarp did listen, I trust he responded well to defibrillation.

(Ironically, the choristers of the Three Choirs' cathedrals were present at the concert, contributing to Adams' Transmigration - a moving piece if imv five minutes longer than it need be.)