St Thomas Fifth Avenue NYC

[chrisjstanley]

Thursday 15th March evensong.

15th Evening (albeit just a cut down version of Psalm 78)

Sung by: The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys
Prelude: Voluntary in C and Verse in F, Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Introit: Hear my prayer, Henry Purcell
Responses: Richard Shephard (b. 1949)
Psalm: 78:1-4; 41-73, Anglican Chant (Mann, Cooper, Goss, Gauntlett)
Service: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in G minor, Henry Purcell
Anthem: Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei, Henry Purcell
Voluntary: Voluntary in G, Henry Purcell



Doesn't get much better for me!!!!!!

bws
Chris S

[DracoM]

Yes, but beware, if you are hoping for a live webcast, NYC is now on daylight saving time - i.e. their 5.30 is our 9.30 p.m.!! It changes back to 10.30 when we change to BST.

Hope you're following all this................??!!

[chrisjstanley]

Thanks for that Draco

Suitable language for the Ides of March.
Qui percussisti omnes inimicos meos maxilliam, dentes improborum confregisti......etc

not forgetting that most vengeful of verses in Psalm 78
50. He cast upon them the furiousness of his wrath, anger, displeasure and trouble : and sent evil angels among them.

bws
Chris S

[mopsus]

One other thing in Thursday's service: the final hymn is sung to Jeremiah Clarke's beautiful tune Uffingham.

[chrisjstanley]

Is it me or do the first few chords of Uffingham bear a resemblance to the Purcell song "Under this stone"? Are they in any way related?

bws
Chris S

[ardcarp]

Probably via a bit of post-Restoration plagiarism...

[mopsus]

Uffingham is derived from Clarke's Evening Hymn 'Sleep downy sleep, come close mine eyes'. St. Thomas' harmonisation is (as often) not quite what I'm used to. It is a beautiful tune but a dark one with all those downward-turning phrases. Perhaps penned by Clarke in one of his depressive moods.

[Magnificat]

Often sung by the boys at St Albans as an anthem at weekday evensong. Beautiful tune as you say. I love it especially when a solo boy does the ornamentations in the last verse.

VCC

[ardcarp]

...and talking of treble solos, a movment from Brahms' German Requiem (Ich habt nun Traurigkeit) was sung as the anthem from St Thomas Fifth Avenue at CE on Sunday 25th March. If you want to navigate straight to it, it is quite near the end, as St T does anthems after sermons and other chat. The soloist has an extraordinary voice along with mature musiciaship.

http://www.saintthomaschurch.org/webcasts

[chrisjstanley]

Extraordinary indeed ardcarp!! For those wanting to miss an extremely boring sermon, it can be found at 01.04.05 into the webcast.

Chris S

[DracoM]

The Nystedt and Praulins mass / Eucharistic service settings are well worth investigating as well, and a wonderful performance of Byrd's sublime Civitas Sancti - all over this last five or so days.

[chrisjstanley]

Also, an interesting comparison between the St T wave upon wave of wailing chromaticity in Purcell's 'Hear my prayer" (introit week beginning 12th March, check out the 15th) with the Salisbury version on Sunday night TV. I did enjoy the Salisbury documentary which i fortuitously discovered while channel-hopping.

bws Chris S

[ardcarp]

For those wanting to miss an extremely boring sermon, it can be found at 01.04.05 into the webcast.

Those kids, not to mention the men, do have to sit through a lot of verbiage...and indeed Eucharists that unfold their mysteries at snails' pace. I wonder if they have clandestine Gameboys secreted under the stalls?

[DracoM]

On the St Thomas HYC website you can hear today [July 8th 2012] Choral Eucharist sung by The Choir of the College of St. Hild and St. Bede, Durham University. Iain Quinn, Director, Zac Clark, Organ Scholar.

[Gabriel Jackson]

The Nystedt and Praulins mass / Eucharistic service settings are well worth investigating as well, and a wonderful performance of Byrd's sublime Civitas Sancti - all over this last five or so days.

Ugis is a very good composer and it's great to see his "Missa Rigensis" getting around a bit. The original (hard-to-find) recording by the Riga Dom Boys' Choir is very fine indeed as is, in its different way, Stephen Layton's more recent one on Hyperion.