CE Blackburn Cathedral Oct 16th 2013

[DracoM]

CE Blackburn Cathedral



Order of Service:



Introit: Sicut cervus (Palestrina)
Responses: Sumsion
Office Hymn: Just as I am (Misericordia)
Psalm: 136 (Lloyd)
First Lesson: Jonah 1
Canticles: Rubbra in A flat
Second Lesson: Luke 5: 1-11
Anthem: They that go down to the sea in ships (Sumsion)
Hymn: Lord of beauty, thine the splendour (Regent Square)




Organ Voluntary: Toccata from Plymouth Suite (Whitlock)




Shaun Turnbull (Assistant Director of Music)
Samuel Hudson (Director of Music)

[Petrushka]

Regent Square again? Don't get me wrong, it's a great tune and easily one of my favourites but it does (along with Wolvercote and Angel Voices) appear with some frequency on CE!

All three are a terrific sing and superb tunes but there are so many fine hymns to choose from that never get a look in and I wish we heard them.

[DracoM]

BTW, sorry for posting this so early, but am not in the posting game until Monday or Tuesday.

[mercia]

Jonah, ships, Plymouth, mighty waters ebb and flow, Luke:5:1-11 - I detect a fishy theme - time to practise my scales and other bad puns

[Keraulophone]

Should be Ps 107, 'to be used at sea', though Ps 137 does include the dividing of the Red Sea and the overthrow of Pharaoh and his host into its unbriney deeps... (from whence they might bemoan Ps 130 De profundis.)

[bach736]

Regent Square again?

Yes, very uninspiring. All the best foundations do it to St Audrey.

[Vox Humana]

Yes, very uninspiring. All the best foundations do it to St Audrey.

Oh dear! Well, that's put Blackburn in its place, hasn't it?

[Wolsey]

Yes, very uninspiring. All the best foundations do it to St Audrey.

Really? Evidence, please.

[Miles Coverdale]

All the best foundations do it to St Audrey.

Do what exactly? You'd have thought the tumour would have been punishment enough without foundations having a go as well.

[ardcarp]

In case anyone's mystified by MC:

http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=6

Good job no-one's doing it to St Agatha.

[bach736]

Ha Ha - what I meant to say was 'In several quires and places where they sing, the hymn is set with good effect to the tune St Audrey.'

[ardcarp]

Whew!

[Miles Coverdale]

She seems to have spent most of her marriage rebuffing the advances of her presumably increasingly frustrated husband. She came to see the tumour which afflicted her later in life as divine retribution for the necklaces she had worn in her earlier years, though it is perhaps unlikely that these were of the pearl variety. Did you know that the word tawdry is a corruption of St Audrey?

[mangerton]

She seems to have spent most of her marriage rebuffing the advances of her presumably increasingly frustrated husband. She came to see the tumour which afflicted her later in life as divine retribution for the necklaces she had worn in her earlier years, though it is perhaps unlikely that these were of the pearl variety. Did you know that the word tawdry is a corruption of St Audrey?

Yes, I did. I also know why Catherine wheels are so-called.

I had a look at (the tune) St Audrey this morning, and I must say I think I prefer Regent Square.

[ardcarp]

Whilst listening just now (I only joined in half-way...must hear the beginning) I browsed this, which seems very informative and comprehensive:

http://www.blackburncathedral.com/levels.asp?level_id=31