Edington Festival August 2013

[DracoM]

Corrected.

[Matthew Martin]

Corrected.

Full marks Draco!

[Matthew Martin]

Somewhat tangential, I realise, but some may be interested in the rep for our Sunday morning slot on the 25th:


R4 Sunday Worship 8.10am Nave BBC broadcast, doors close 8.00am

Deep river No 5 of FIVE NEGRO SPIRITUALS
Sir Michael Tippett

from Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
Booker Taliaferro Washington

Magnificat in G - Francis Jackson

from The March on Washington Speech - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Agnus Dei (Missa O quam gloriosum) - Tomás Luis de Victoria

The Musician - Ronald Stuart Thomas

In paradisum - plainsong

A Prayer of St Teresa - Matthew Martin

Amazing Grace - NEW BRITAIN attributed James Carrell

Praeludium in D BuxWV139 - Dietrich Buxtehude

[underthecountertenor]

This is such a quantum leap removed from standard R4 Sunday Worship fare that I imagine many listeners will think their steam radios have re-tuned themselves. Or turned into a Tardis. Or something. And a good thing too.

[underthecountertenor]

[Though I confess to being puzzled as to how Francis Jackson's fine Magnificat fits in the context. Is it word association from Jesse J?]

[Matthew Martin]

[Though I confess to being puzzled as to how Francis Jackson's fine Magnificat fits in the context. Is it word association from Jesse J?]

Obvs.

[underthecountertenor]

What?

[DracoM]

Every so often on the CE threads, we get this kind of 'service'.
On paper, and this is entirely my own opinion, this looks to all intents and purposes like a concert pure and simple.
No doubt it will be very well sung, but nevertheless, a concert.

[underthecountertenor]

Well, to me, and on paper, and this is entirely my own opinion, it looks to all intents and purposes like a meditation on slavery and the abolition thereof, with music which is more or less obviously appropriate to the meditation (and, where less obviously, I would be prepared to hazard that the appropriateness will become clear on listening). And a good deal more edifying than the dreary stuff normally churned out at that hour on the Home Service.
Still, quotitty totitty, eh?

[DracoM]

OK, fair enough if it's not a service, then fine. In the context described above, one can see the structure. Certainly agree about what normally is served for the Sunday a.m. on R4.

[Matthew Martin]

OK, fair enough if it's not a service, then fine. In the context described above, one can see the structure. Certainly agree about what normally is served for the Sunday a.m. on R4.

I am sure that it will fulfil the brief of R4 Sunday Worship quite satisfactorily.

[Chris Watson]

Presumably you also dislike the Advent Concert from St John's and the Christmas one from King's.

Every so often on the CE threads, we get this kind of 'service'.
On paper, and this is entirely my own opinion, this looks to all intents and purposes like a concert pure and simple.
No doubt it will be very well sung, but nevertheless, a concert.

[DracoM]

I wish you had read the exchange of postings that followed that entry before posting.

[Chris Watson]

I wish you had read the exchange of postings that followed that entry before posting.

I did. You say 'fair enough if it's not a service' - which it clearly is. Just not a BCP one!

[Daniel Hyde]

Mystified that my post of last evening has been removed. As I said yesterday, I thought the psalms were especially fine. And lovely to hear Bill Ives' wonderful chants.