CE St John's College, Cambridge May 2nd 2012

[Finzi4ever]

It's not exactly ur-repertoire for John's, is it? Or at least, not what one usually associates with them. And Nun Danket doesn't exactly sing itself. So, as ardcarp suggests, it's going to be a revealing last half hour.

YOu had to tempt fate by mentioning that last half hour, after all we went through with Chi!

[Anna]

Second week in a row then for transmission being lost. Are they really using their mobiles to do it .....

[Keraulophone]

Aaaaaaargh!

Not 3 weeks, I hope...! and when will they fade back - wait till the Fugue has ended? Poor choice, anyway IMO - Bach, yes, but a quiet chorale prelude would have been better. Surely this was too rude a ff interruption to the foregoing dynamics?

[ardcarp]

I don't believe it. Some techie, please tell me what 'line' it is they keep losing. Sounds like carelessness to me.

[mopsus]

A sequence of short chorale preludes might have suited, so that you could return to the live broadcast at the end of any of them if the connection was restored.

[ardcarp]

Bach, yes

The authorship of the famous T & F has been questioned.

[Keraulophone]

Ok, maybe not JSB, but let's not get into that just now! (And, no, I don't like it played on the violin.)

At least they gave a reason - power cut in the area of the chapel?!?

[Anna]

At least they gave a reason - power cut in the area of the chapel?!?

Was that the same reason for the break last week? Did they ever say?

[Keraulophone]

Can't recall that they gave a reason last time; don't think they did.

At least she was careful not to say 'The line went down' - the producer sometimes used to blame BT!

And no further explanation at 4.30

[Extended Play]

At least they had organ music ready. Do you think they'd read the posts here after last week's interruption?

[LF]

I understand that today's problem was a fire in the college kitchen.

[Miles Coverdale]

The performance of the larger-scale works of Bach by cathedral choirs is not so ground-breaking. At a cathedral not a million miles away from me (Hereford) they have been singing (in even-numbered years) both the Christmas Oratorio (all six cantatas) and the St John Passion, and (in odd-numbered years) the St Matthew Passion for quite a few years now. It is, of course, much more financially viable to do a work like the Christmas Oratorio in concert than to do all six cantatas separately on the days they were originally written for, nice though that might be.

On a point of fact, St Mary at Hill was not blown up by the IRA, but badly damaged in a fire in 1988.

[Anna]

I understand that today's problem was a fire in the college kitchen.

In which case, I do hope no-one was injured

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

When they announced that we were to be played some Bach organ music to fill the void, I was delighted. Then they knocked the smile off my face by choosing a CD from the top of the Breakfast pile. Still, it became a little more imaginative after that.

[Vile Consort]

I understand that today's problem was a fire in the college kitchen.

The college's web servers are down. Presumably they are on-site and without power.

Was the service abandoned? Or did it go ahead in the gloom?