CE Peterborough Cathedral Wed, 8th Jan 2014

[Miles Coverdale]

Lento

I'm afraid the Peterborough girls were not really up to it.

Yet again a new DOM does his first CE broadcast with the girls rather than the boys. He's been in post for seven months for goodness sake has he no confidence in his abiliities?

I suppose we'll be told that it was the girls' turn. What a useful cop - out.

VCC

Why on earth does broadcasting with the girls betray a lack of confidence in his abilities? What nonsense.

[Magnificat]

MC

In my opinion any newly appointed DoM worth his salt would want his first broadcast CE to be with a first class choir of boys and men.

The Peterborough site states that the upper voices service each week is sung by boys and girls together. Frankly I think that speaks volumes. Very sad.

VCC

[RAC]

Yes, the 8-part Mag. is Bevan, and thank you for using the correct terminology! I wonder if this is the first time we have heard a troped Mag. on the Choral Evensong broadcast - perhaps! What was even more surprising was how well the Dancing Day arr. (Willcocks?) and Wishart's Alleluia: A New Work fitted; so apt and festive.

It certainly wasn't the Willcocks arrangement from Carols for Choirs 2, and the other carol was Walton's All this time (no.5 in C for C 2) not the Wishart.

RAC

[Mr Stoat]

MC

In my opinion any newly appointed DoM worth his salt would want his first broadcast CE to be with a first class choir of boys and men.

The Peterborough site states that the upper voices service each week is sung by boys and girls together. Frankly I think that speaks volumes. Very sad.

VCC

In my opinion, any DOM worth his/her salt would want any service, broadcast or not, to be of the best possible calibre with the given forces.......

[MrGongGong]

Why on earth does broadcasting with the girls betray a lack of confidence in his abilities? What nonsense.

And as another year begins the same old, same old riff comes round again

[Simon Biazeck]

It certainly wasn't the Willcocks arrangement from Carols for Choirs 2, and the other carol was Walton's All this time (no.5 in C for C 2) not the Wishart.

RAC

Thank you for the correction! You are quite right. I was evidently falling asleep, but why so snippy and tart in your tone? That's not very friendly, is it? Perhaps you enjoy speaking down to people, anonymously of course. No thank you, to that!

I've certainly sung that arr. of Dancing Day, and was struggling to remember whose it was.

[Simon Biazeck]

And as another year begins the same old, same old riff comes round again

It's like a broken record, isn't it. I have a vision of a cat grooming itself over and over and over, and then staring blankly into space, like him (I assume!) repeating the same information ad nauseam in every post without comprehension, reason or modification. SO dull!

[DracoM]

Can we try to keep ad hominem postings out of the Forum? VCC is entirely free to express an opinion even if it one not shared by all posters.

[Simon Biazeck]

Can we try to keep ad hominem postings out of the Forum? VCC is entirely free to express an opinion even if it one not shared by all posters.

Oh, do lighten up dearie!

[ardcarp]

Oh, do lighten up dearie!

...you mean, as in #21 ?

[ardcarp]

Not sure about opening with Illuminare: rather less slick than Kings Cambridge IMHO.

KCC always sing it with a certain sang froid and indeed most choirs copy that way of doing it. I thought RQ's more expressive account shed a new light [pun intended] on the piece.

[Chris Watson]

Can we try to keep ad hominem postings out of the Forum? VCC is entirely free to express an opinion even if it one not shared by all posters.

Shouldn't it be ad cattus or something? Yorks Bass will know.

[jean]

Ad felem.

[DracoM]

.......or ad cattum, to be colloquial?

[jean]

Cattus is so late it's not in Lewis & Short at all.

Wiktionary says:

From Afro-Asiatic (compare Nubian kadís, Berber kaddîska 'wildcat'), from Late Egyptian čaute, feminine of caus (“jungle cat, African wildcat”), from earlier Egyptian tešau (“female cat”). Borrowed into Germanic and Slavic languages along with the introduction of domesticated cats: Dutch kat, German Katze, Swedish katt, Russian кот (kot).