Advent Service from St John's: 2 December, 4pm

[paul duggan2]

Nothing in Whitehead's arrangement of the Joys of Mary that is either trendy or likely to frighten the horses. Straightforward new arangement of trad. melody - very 'safe' & very good.

Martin Magnificat a little more challenging perhaps?

[subcontrabass]

Wikipedia is indeed a splendid resource.

I do not need to use Wikipedia for this sort of basic liturgics.

[orbis factor]

I do not need to use Wikipedia for this sort of basic liturgics.

Me thinks that the..
Never mind.

[W.Kearns]

At risk of taking off at a tangent, am I the only person to be irritated by the current Radio Three trail for this service? It is the woolly reference to 'Saint John's, Cambridge' that galls. Why are the BBC so coy about naming 'St John's College Chapel, Cambridge' -? Are they afraid it might be taken for advertising?

[DracoM]

And using the same voice as is used for R2 trails.

Never known a thread to have nearly 50 responses before the service actually starts!

[Alison]

That's just it - it's already finished !

[DracoM]

And from the schedules it appears not be repeated on R3 after its Sunday tx, so will only available to listen to after Sunday on iPLayer.

[jean]

This year the College will hold two Advent Carol Services on the 24 November 2012 at 6.00pm and 25 November 2012 at 4.00pm (a week before Advent owing to the way the University Term is this year).

I was at Christ Church Oxford's Advent carol service this year, which was also last Sunday.

[DracoM]

................and? Come on, jean............give us a flavour!

[jean]

I only mentioned it on this thread because it, too, was on the wrong Sunday!

A shame we had so many hymns; I can get those at home. There were no 'O' antiphons, except squeezed into O come, O come, Emmanuel. The Byrd Rorate coeli was ravishing. After that we had The Lord, He is Good (Mendelssohn, the Apple Tree (Elizabeth Poston), A Spotless Rose (Howells), Tomorrow shall be my dancing day, and Malcolm Williamson's Dawn Carol.

The opening and closing choral pieces were by Gabriel Jackson - settings of I look from afar... and the Vesper responsory Judah and Jerusalem, fear not, nor be dismayed...

[Gabriel Jackson]

The opening and closing choral pieces were by Gabriel Jackson - settings of I look from afar... and the Vesper responsory Judah and Jerusalem, fear not, nor be dismayed...

That's interesting - the first of those was commissioned by Stephen Darlington and Christ Church 21 years ago - I didn't know it was still in the repertoire!

[Simon]

Well there you are then Gabriel - a deserved reward for you for having written what is obviously a good piece! Good pieces stay in the repertoire.

[Anna]

I am listening, I just wish I had bought some Christmas Cards to write and therefore feel infused with warm glow, (I fear I've missed the last postal dates for US)

[subcontrabass]

I am listening, I just wish I had bought some Christmas Cards to write and therefore feel infused with warm glow, (I fear I've missed the last postal dates for US)

Not if you use air mail: http://www.royalmail.com/greetings

[VodkaDilc]

Most enjoyable. A shame though that someone decided to build a college chapel on a road with such noisy traffic!