tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8683304867866943752024-03-22T04:24:20.046+00:00Music in ChurchSt Mary Our Lady SidleshamUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger235125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-66673613740132872422024-03-10T18:40:00.002+00:002024-03-10T18:42:39.524+00:00Sunday 10th March 2024 Lent 4 Mothering Sunday<p> <b><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #646464;">John Stainer “God so loved the world” from “The Crucifixion”</span></span></b></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;">“The Crucifixion: A Mediation on the Sacred Passion of the Holy Redeemer” was composed in 1887 and first performed on 24<sup>th</sup> February of that year. It was dedicated to his friend and pupil W Hodge and the choir of Marylebone Church. It is a sacred oratorio for tenor and bass soli, SATB choir and organ. W J Sparrow Simpson wrote the libretto. The work has been dismissed in the past, even Stainer himself calling it “rubbish” but it is continued to be a staple of church music since its first performance, especially around Easter. “God so loved the world” is one of the choral pieces, but the text can be used at any time in the church calendar, as it is reflecting part of the Eucharist.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;">Sir John Stainer (1840 – 1901) was an English composer and organist. He was very popular during his life, but now little of his music is performed other than “The Crucifixion”. He was the Heather Professor of Music at Oxford, and his training of choristers and organists set standard that remain influential today.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;">He was born in Southwark, London, son of a cabinetmaker. He was a chorister at St Paul’s Cathedral at the age of ten. At sixteen he was appointed organist at St Michael’s College, Tenbury. He was later organist at Magdalen College, Oxford and the St Paul’s Cathedral. Whilst at Magdalen he was allowed to study as long as it did not interfere with his duties as organist. He chose to do so and in 1864 gained his BA with his MA coming 2 years later. Due to poor eyesight he had to retire from St Paul’s whist in his forties and returned to Oxford to take up his chair. Queen Victoria honoured him with his knighthood in 1888 for his services to British music, the same year he retired from St Paul’s. He died unexpectedly whilst holidaying in Italy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3i2rCceFu7fN4VsWGc4rpDoYSLb5PbzRVfIaA7QA0w0ExU0ZSt9GZ8DuCvw1BN0ERs_J1bh8om8f4EylD41rH4Gk3zRm8ARGeJedmKdb09hzgHlRMhCjpYAaqkUE67ekuJuDZs6t6Q14x9-bLMSBLAaKN0nCLEY_k252Wlel-doiFZfeueq1ibWslwg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="283" height="554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3i2rCceFu7fN4VsWGc4rpDoYSLb5PbzRVfIaA7QA0w0ExU0ZSt9GZ8DuCvw1BN0ERs_J1bh8om8f4EylD41rH4Gk3zRm8ARGeJedmKdb09hzgHlRMhCjpYAaqkUE67ekuJuDZs6t6Q14x9-bLMSBLAaKN0nCLEY_k252Wlel-doiFZfeueq1ibWslwg=w383-h554" width="383" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">picture from Wikipedia</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #646464; text-align: left;"><b>Andrew Carter Grannies and Grandads, a movement taken from Bless The Lord, a subset of movements from his work, Benedicite.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #646464; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #646464; text-align: left;">The junior choir sang excerpt from this long piece, picking out the verses applicable to family and "Mothering" as we heard from Fr Chris that anyone is capable of mothering, no matter what gender or age.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #646464; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">Benedicite is a composition for choir, children's choir and orchestra by Andrew Carter. He set the hymn Benedicite from the Book of Common Prayer, and additional free texts based on the model in three movements for unison children's choir. The work was published in 1991 and dedicated to Andrew Fairbairns. A subset of the music for children's choir was published as Bless the Lord.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">History</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">Benedicite was commissioned for the 1989 Singing Day in Edinburgh by the British Federation of Young Choirs. Carter, an English composer and church musician in York, was inspired by the restoration of roof bosses at the southern transept of York Minster, which had been destroyed in a fire in 1984. They depict around 60 images of creatures. The music is written to convey a child-like perspective of the wonders of Creation.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">Benedicite was published in 1991 and dedicated to Andrew Fairbairns. A subset of the music for children's choir was published as Bless the Lord.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">Structure and music</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">Carter set the hymn Benedicite from the Book of Common Prayer in six movements, and interspersed three additional movements, whose texts are free variations on the model, to be sung by a unison children's choir.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">The movements are titled:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">O all ye works of the Lord</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">Green Things</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">Sun and Moon</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">Badgers and Hedgehogs</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">Ice and Snow</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">Whales and Waters</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">Butterflies and Moths</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">Thunder and Lightning</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">Spirits and Souls</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">Grannies and Grandads</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">O let the earth bless the Lord</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">The duration is given as 35 minutes. The first movement, beginning "O all ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord", is marked Molto ritmico (Most rhythmic) and is in 2+2+2+3/8 time.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">The three movements based on added text to be sung by a children's choir were also published separately as Bless the Lord, which is concluded with the final movement. The movements are:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">Badgers and Hedgehogs (Benedicite No. 4)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">Butterflies and Moths (Benedicite No. 7)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">Grannies and Grandads (Benedicite No. 10)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">O Let The Earth Bless The Lord</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;">Taken from Wikipedia</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #646464;"><div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid edgtf-section edgtf-content-aligment-left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #606060; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px -15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="clearfix edgtf-full-section-inner" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wpb_animate_when_almost_visible wpb_fadeInLeft fadeInLeft wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6 wpb_start_animation animated" style="animation-duration: 1s; animation-fill-mode: both; animation-name: fadeInLeft; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 749px;"><div class="vc_column-inner vc_custom_1592723508301" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 20px !important; padding: 20px 15px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 749px;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 35px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Andrew Carter’s music is performed worldwide. As composer, guest conductor and workshop leader he has travelled extensively in the United States, Antipodes and Europe. A twenty-five year association with Oxford University Press has established his reputation as a writer of both choral miniatures and larger scale concert works for chorus and orchestra. Of these latter the widely performed Benedicite was followed by Te Deum, Musick’s Jubilee, Horizons, Song of Stillness, and Laudate Dominum. Of similar scale, the Magnificat (MorningStar 2004), is already proving popular. In a lighter vein, the Three Nonsensical Songs for upper voices and orchestra were premiered by Quad Cities Symphony in 2005. After conducting his Magnificat in North Carolina in April 2008, Andrew gave workshops in Toronto and attended the celebrated St Olaf’s College in Minnesota as composer-in-residence.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="wpb_animate_when_almost_visible wpb_fadeInRight fadeInRight wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-2 wpb_start_animation animated" style="animation-duration: 1s; animation-fill-mode: both; animation-name: fadeInRight; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 249.663px;"><div class="vc_column-inner vc_custom_1592723517473" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 20px !important; padding: 20px 15px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 249.663px;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background: 0px 0px; 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border: 0px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="" class="vc_single_image-img attachment-thumbnail" height="150" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" src="https://andrewcarter.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Sunset-3-150x150.jpg" srcset="https://andrewcarter.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Sunset-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https://andrewcarter.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Sunset-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https://andrewcarter.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Sunset-3-100x100.jpg 100w, https://andrewcarter.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Sunset-3-650x650.jpg 650w" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: top;" width="150" /></div></figure></div></div></div></div><div class="wpb_animate_when_almost_visible wpb_fadeInRight fadeInRight wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6 wpb_start_animation animated" style="animation-duration: 1s; animation-fill-mode: both; animation-name: fadeInRight; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 749px;"><div class="vc_column-inner vc_custom_1592723535775" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 20px !important; padding: 20px 15px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 749px;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 35px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A particular honour in the field of church music was the invitation to write Missa Sancti Pauli for the 1997 tercentenary celebrations of Wren’s St Paul’s Cathedral. Over the years several of Andrew’s carols have been included in the renowned Christmas Eve broadcast from King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, with Mary’s Magnificat featuring again in 2009. Andrew Carter’s Christmas Carols, conducted by the composer with John Scott at the organ, was named amongst the ‘ten best ever’ Christmas CDs in the BBC Music Magazine (Nov, 2007).</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-2" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 249.663px;"><div class="vc_column-inner" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 249.663px;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid edgtf-section edgtf-content-aligment-left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #606060; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px -15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="clearfix edgtf-full-section-inner" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-2" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 249.663px;"><div class="vc_column-inner" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 249.663px;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div></div><div class="wpb_animate_when_almost_visible wpb_fadeInLeft fadeInLeft wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6 wpb_start_animation animated" style="animation-duration: 1s; animation-fill-mode: both; animation-name: fadeInLeft; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 749px;"><div class="vc_column-inner vc_custom_1592723542117" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 20px !important; padding: 20px 15px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 749px;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 35px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Andrew’s lifelong love of the organ is reflected in the festive Organ Concerto (MorningStar 2008) and an album of organ pieces (Oxford) which includes the much acclaimed Toccata on Veni Emmanuel. More recently, the substantial 22-variation Passacaglia (Banks 2007), written to honour Francis Jackson’s 90th birthday, was premiered by John Scott Whiteley in York Minster.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="wpb_animate_when_almost_visible wpb_fadeInRight fadeInRight wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-2 wpb_start_animation animated" style="animation-duration: 1s; animation-fill-mode: both; animation-name: fadeInRight; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 249.663px;"><div class="vc_column-inner vc_custom_1592723558604" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 20px !important; padding: 20px 15px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 249.663px;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background: 0px 0px; 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border: 0px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="" class="vc_single_image-img attachment-thumbnail" height="150" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" src="https://andrewcarter.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/carols-ym-150x150.jpg" srcset="https://andrewcarter.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/carols-ym-150x150.jpg 150w, https://andrewcarter.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/carols-ym-300x300.jpg 300w, https://andrewcarter.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/carols-ym-768x768.jpg 768w, https://andrewcarter.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/carols-ym-650x650.jpg 650w, https://andrewcarter.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/carols-ym-600x600.jpg 600w, https://andrewcarter.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/carols-ym-100x100.jpg 100w, https://andrewcarter.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/carols-ym.jpg 900w" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: top;" width="150" /></div></figure></div></div></div></div><div class="wpb_animate_when_almost_visible wpb_fadeInRight fadeInRight wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6 wpb_start_animation animated" style="animation-duration: 1s; animation-fill-mode: both; animation-name: fadeInRight; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 749px;"><div class="vc_column-inner vc_custom_1592723571510" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 20px !important; padding: 20px 15px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 749px;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 35px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Born in Leicester in the English Midlands, Andrew Carter studied music at Leeds University before settling in York. During his time as a bass songman at York Minster, he founded the Chapter House Choir, the award winning mixed-voice concert group which he conducted for seventeen years, and for whom he penned many of his early published arrangements.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Taken from Andrew Carter's website</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div><div style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div></span></div>Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-65432170311440667532024-03-03T12:52:00.003+00:002024-03-03T12:52:39.951+00:003rd March 2024 Lent3<p> <b>O Lord, Increase Our Faith H. Loosemore</b></p><p>Henry Loosemore was born in Devon. He was a chorister and afterwards a lay clerk in one of the Cambridge colleges. At some time he was organist at King's College. In 1660 he became organist at Exeter Cathedral. He died suddenly in 1670 whilst in Exeter. </p><p>O Lord Increase Our Faith has incorrectly been attributed to Orlando Gibbons in the past, and in Gibbon's version, has the word "our" replaced by "my". However a manuscript was found of Loosemore's which allowed the correct attribution and also the correction of the text.</p><p> </p>Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-90051494514620898822024-02-25T12:32:00.006+00:002024-02-25T12:32:51.646+00:00Sunday 25th February 2024 Lent 2<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> <b style="background-color: white; color: #646464; font-size: 13px;">Lord For Thy Tender Mercy's Sake </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #646464; font-size: 13px;">Music could be by either Farrant or John Hilton. This arrangement is by Anthony Green. Words from Bull, Christian Prayers and Holy Mediaition (1568)</span></span></p><div style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Richard Farrant (c. 1525 – 30 November 1580) was an English composer, musical dramatist, theatre founder, and Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal. The first acknowledgment of him is in a list of the Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal in 1552. The year of his birth cannot be accurately determined. During his life he was able to establish himself as a successful composer, develop the English drama considerably, found the first Blackfriars Theatre, and be the first to write verse-anthems. He married Anne Bower, daughter of Richard Bower who was Master of the Chapel Royal choristers at the time. With Anne he conceived ten children, one of whom was also named Richard.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Queen Elizabeth I</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">As a member of the Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, Farrant was active in ceremonies surrounding the royal family. He began his work with the Chapel Royal around 1550 under the reign of Edward VI. Fortunately, for Farrant, this is a time that saw huge developments in Latin Church Music. Composers like William Byrd and Christopher Tye were busy expanding and elaborating on the Church Music of the day. In Farrant's twelve years with the Chapel Royal, he was able to participate in funerals for Edward VI and Mary I, and coronations for Mary I and Elizabeth I. After his work there, he took up a post as lay vicar and organist at St. George's Chapel at Windsor.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">For Farrant, the post at Windsor became a permanent one that he retained for the rest of his life. Along with this, he also acquired the position of Master of the Chapel Royal choristers in November 1569. Having the choirs of both of these institutions at his disposal gave him an outlet to showcase all of his compositions and plays. In fact, every winter he was able to produce a play for the Queen herself. These positions also allowed him to move back to London in 1576 and begin a public theater of sorts where he rehearsed some of his choir music openly. It was soon after, in 1580, that he died, having left his house to his wife.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Unlike many composers of his day that stuck to only music composition, Farrant also wrote many plays. One of his most important contributions to drama in England is of course the creation of the first Blackfriars Theatre. This eventually became one of the most important places in London for drama to develop during the Renaissance. Farrant is also one of the earliest and most well known composers that began to mix the two mediums of music and drama. It was this uncommon mixture that allowed him to begin to develop the composition style of 'verse.' This becomes prominent in a lot of his pieces including the anthems When as we sat in Babylon, Call to remembrance and Hide not thou thy face.</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">John Hilton (the elder) (1565 – 1609(?)) was an English countertenor, organist and composer of mainly sacred works.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Hilton is best known for his anthems "Lord, for Thy Tender Mercy's Sake" (which may actually be by one of the Farrants) and "Call to Remembrance".</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Hilton was born in 1565. By 1584 he was a countertenor at Lincoln Cathedral. At the start of 1594 he became organist at Trinity College, Cambridge.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">He was the father of John Hilton the younger, also a composer, which makes definitive assignation of their combined sacred works problematic; whereas his only secular work appears to have been the madrigal Fair Oriana, beauty's Queen, which he wrote for The Triumphs of Oriana.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">He died, probably in Cambridge, prior to 20 March 1609.</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Henry Bull (died 1577) was an English Protestant theological writer. He is now remembered as an ally of John Foxe in documenting the Marian exiles and recent religious history.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">A native of Warwickshire, Bull was a demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1535, and full fellow and B.A. in 1540. He was a prominent reformer in the college, in a group that included Thomas Cooper, Robert Crowley and John Foxe. He became rector of Courtenhall in early 1553.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">When Mary I of England came to the throne later in 1553, Bull, with the help of Thomas Bentham, snatched a censer from the hand of the officiating priest and was expelled from Magdalen. A visitation of the college was held and, on 23 October 1553, the visitors deprived Bull of his fellowship. Anthony Wood says that he went into exile, which cannot be documented, but Strype states that he lived quietly at home as a Protestant.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">After the accession of Elizabeth I of England, Bull held benefices, according to Wood. He collected correspondence and manuscripts, that were kept by Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and worked in parallel with Foxe's Actes and Monuments.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Bull edited the Apology of Bishop John Hooper (1562) and, in the same year, Hooper's Exposition of Psalm xxiii. Other commentaries of Hooper's on three psalms appeared in Certeine comfortable Expositions of … Master John Hooper on Psalms 23, 62, 72, 77, gathered by Mr. H. B. (1580). He was also the editor of Christian Praiers and Holy Meditacions which appeared first by 1570; an earlier work from Bull's collection was Lidley's Prayers (1566). Christian Praiers was reprinted later in the century, and by the Parker Society.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">The major martyrological collection, Certain Most Godly, Fruitful and Comfortable Letters of such True Saintes and Holy Martyrs as in the Late Bloodye Persecution Gave their Lyves, was published in 1564, as by Miles Coverdale. In effect, it was by Bull.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Bull translated from Martin Luther A Commentarie on the Fiftene Psalmes called Psalmi Graduum, printed by Thomas Vautroullier (1577), with a preface by Foxe.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Biographies from Wikipedia</span></div></div>Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-66472885480808285622024-02-18T11:54:00.000+00:002024-02-18T11:54:03.300+00:00Sunday 18th February 2024 Lent 1<div style="text-align: left;"><b>Jubilate Deo in B flat Stanford</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="color: #646464;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Taken from the Novello Copy</span></div><div style="color: #646464;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Sir Charles Villiers Stanford has a perverse relationship with posterity. Remembered today largely for his choral miniatures, this restless symphonist was the unwilling Janus of British music. A significant presence on the European scene in his own lifetime, he was an outspoken critic of Wagner, Strauss and modernism in general. Nevertheless, as a formalist with flair and skill, his influence catalysed much of the great English music of the 20th century. As fellow composer George Dyson said: "In a certain sense the very rebellion he fought was the most obvious fruit of his methods."<br /><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"></span>The Jubilate in B flat displays the composers trademark mastery of thematic structures.<br /></span></div><div style="color: #646464;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #646464;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #646464;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><div style="color: black;"><b>O Lord My God Samuel Sebastian Wesley </b></div><div style="color: black;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="color: black;">This is known as King Solomon's prayer based on 1 Kings 8.</div><div style="color: black;"><br /></div><div style="color: black;"><div>O Lord my God,</div><div>Hear thou the prayer thy servant prayeth,</div><div>Have thou respect unto his prayer?</div><div>Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place,</div><div>And when thou hearest Lord, forgive.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Samuel Sebastian Wesley (14 August 1810 – 19 April 1876) was an English organist and composer. Wesley married Mary Anne Merewether and had 6 children. He is often referred to as S.S. Wesley to avoid confusion with his father Samuel Wesley.</div><div><br /></div><div>Biography</div><div>Born in London, he was the eldest child in the composer Samuel Wesley's second family, which he formed with Sarah Suter having separated from his wife Charlotte. Samuel Sebastian was the grandson of Charles Wesley. His middle name derived from his father's lifelong admiration for the music of Bach.</div><div><br /></div><div>After singing in the choir of the Chapel Royal as a boy, Samuel Sebastian embarked on a career as a musician, and was appointed organist at Hereford Cathedral in 1832. While there he married the sister of the Dean, John Merryweather. S.S. Wesley was, like his father Samuel Wesley, a Freemason. He was initiated in Palladian Lodge No.120 in Hereford on 17 September 1833. He moved to Exeter Cathedral three years later, and joined St George's Lodge No.129 Exeter on 10 December 1835. He subsequently held appointments at Leeds Parish Church (now Leeds Minster) (from 1842), Winchester Cathedral (from 1849), Winchester College and Gloucester Cathedral (1865-1876). In 1839 he received both his Bachelor of Music degree and a Doctor of Music degree from Oxford. He became a Professor of Organ at the Royal Academy of Music in 1850. He died at his home in Gloucester on 19 April 1876 aged 65. He is buried next to his daughter in St. Bartholomew's Cemetery in Exeter by the old City Wall. There are memorial tablets to him in Exeter Cathedral and Winchester Cathedral, and his memorial at Gloucester Cathedral is in stained glass.</div><div><br /></div><div>Famous in his lifetime as one of his country's leading organists and choirmasters, he composed almost exclusively for the Church of England, which continues to cherish his memory. His better-known anthems include Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace and Wash me throughly. He also wrote several rather late examples of verse anthems, which contrast unison and contrapuntal sections with smaller, more intimate passages for solo voice or voices. Blessed be the God and Father, The Wilderness and Ascribe unto the Lord are of considerable length, as is his Service in E.</div><div><br /></div><div>The popular short anthem Lead me, Lord is an extract from Praise the Lord, O my soul. Several of his pieces for solo organ have enduring value and continue to be played in recitals now and then.</div><div><br /></div><div>Of his hymn tunes the best-known are "Aurelia" and "Hereford." "Aurelia" has been widely adopted in the United States, and is regularly heard there. Usually now sung to the words "The Church's One Foundation", Wesley composed the tune for the hymn "Jerusalem the Golden", hence the name "Aurelia".</div><div><br /></div><div>One notable feature of his career is his aversion to equal temperament, an aversion which he kept for decades after this tuning method had been accepted on the Continent and even in most of England. Such distaste did not stop him from substantial use of chromaticism in several of his published compositions.</div><div><br /></div><div>While at Winchester Cathedral Wesley was largely responsible for the Cathedral's acquisition in 1854 of the Father Willis organ which had been exhibited at The Great Exhibition, 1851. The success of the Exhibition organ led directly to the award of the contract to Willis for a 100-stop organ for St George's Hall, Liverpool built in 1855. Wesley was the consultant for this major and important project, but the organ was, arguably, impaired for some years by Wesley's insistence that it be tuned to unequal temperament.</div><div><br /></div><div>Wesley, with Father Willis, can be credited with the invention of the concave and radiating organ pedalboard, but demurred when Willis proposed that it should be known as the "Wesley-Willis" pedalboard. However, their joint conception has been largely adopted as an international standard for organs throughout the English-speaking world and those exported elsewhere.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4D7Whovhyqj2koscUrBG0f7TB53n9w9buHnLIf_N5tyKLtrS5ZbXrC_7qSORAllsJH0QvceIEFMCeJd-CmcuZCs-VhNkQI2J7wtXNY0gxlgWp0jZMI505aOujKzR3xVF9wt-Hc-AomDikV91Njr6vyIrI0TfAQLJRR4JFRMm7LaZn5l2GSrrqQ6_dIg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="330" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4D7Whovhyqj2koscUrBG0f7TB53n9w9buHnLIf_N5tyKLtrS5ZbXrC_7qSORAllsJH0QvceIEFMCeJd-CmcuZCs-VhNkQI2J7wtXNY0gxlgWp0jZMI505aOujKzR3xVF9wt-Hc-AomDikV91Njr6vyIrI0TfAQLJRR4JFRMm7LaZn5l2GSrrqQ6_dIg" width="205" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Taken from Wikipedia</div><br /></div></div></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><i><br /></i></span></div><p><br /></p></div>Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-20587539365634423442024-02-18T09:13:00.000+00:002024-02-18T09:13:01.416+00:00Wednesday 13th February 2024 Ash Wednesday<div style="text-align: left;"><p style="color: #646464; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Lord For Thy Tender Mercy's Sake </b>Music could be by either Farrant or John Hilton. This arrangement is by Anthony Green. Words from Bull, Christian Prayers and Holy Mediaition (1568)</span></span></p><div style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Richard Farrant (c. 1525 – 30 November 1580) was an English composer, musical dramatist, theatre founder, and Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal. The first acknowledgment of him is in a list of the Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal in 1552. The year of his birth cannot be accurately determined. During his life he was able to establish himself as a successful composer, develop the English drama considerably, found the first Blackfriars Theatre, and be the first to write verse-anthems. He married Anne Bower, daughter of Richard Bower who was Master of the Chapel Royal choristers at the time. With Anne he conceived ten children, one of whom was also named Richard.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Queen Elizabeth I</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">As a member of the Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, Farrant was active in ceremonies surrounding the royal family. He began his work with the Chapel Royal around 1550 under the reign of Edward VI. Fortunately, for Farrant, this is a time that saw huge developments in Latin Church Music. Composers like William Byrd and Christopher Tye were busy expanding and elaborating on the Church Music of the day. In Farrant's twelve years with the Chapel Royal, he was able to participate in funerals for Edward VI and Mary I, and coronations for Mary I and Elizabeth I. After his work there, he took up a post as lay vicar and organist at St. George's Chapel at Windsor.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">For Farrant, the post at Windsor became a permanent one that he retained for the rest of his life. Along with this, he also acquired the position of Master of the Chapel Royal choristers in November 1569. Having the choirs of both of these institutions at his disposal gave him an outlet to showcase all of his compositions and plays. In fact, every winter he was able to produce a play for the Queen herself. These positions also allowed him to move back to London in 1576 and begin a public theater of sorts where he rehearsed some of his choir music openly. It was soon after, in 1580, that he died, having left his house to his wife.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Unlike many composers of his day that stuck to only music composition, Farrant also wrote many plays. One of his most important contributions to drama in England is of course the creation of the first Blackfriars Theatre. This eventually became one of the most important places in London for drama to develop during the Renaissance. Farrant is also one of the earliest and most well known composers that began to mix the two mediums of music and drama. It was this uncommon mixture that allowed him to begin to develop the composition style of 'verse.' This becomes prominent in a lot of his pieces including the anthems When as we sat in Babylon, Call to remembrance and Hide not thou thy face.</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">John Hilton (the elder) (1565 – 1609(?)) was an English countertenor, organist and composer of mainly sacred works.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Hilton is best known for his anthems "Lord, for Thy Tender Mercy's Sake" (which may actually be by one of the Farrants) and "Call to Remembrance".</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Hilton was born in 1565. By 1584 he was a countertenor at Lincoln Cathedral. At the start of 1594 he became organist at Trinity College, Cambridge.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">He was the father of John Hilton the younger, also a composer, which makes definitive assignation of their combined sacred works problematic; whereas his only secular work appears to have been the madrigal Fair Oriana, beauty's Queen, which he wrote for The Triumphs of Oriana.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">He died, probably in Cambridge, prior to 20 March 1609.</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Henry Bull (died 1577) was an English Protestant theological writer. He is now remembered as an ally of John Foxe in documenting the Marian exiles and recent religious history.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">A native of Warwickshire, Bull was a demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1535, and full fellow and B.A. in 1540. He was a prominent reformer in the college, in a group that included Thomas Cooper, Robert Crowley and John Foxe. He became rector of Courtenhall in early 1553.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">When Mary I of England came to the throne later in 1553, Bull, with the help of Thomas Bentham, snatched a censer from the hand of the officiating priest and was expelled from Magdalen. A visitation of the college was held and, on 23 October 1553, the visitors deprived Bull of his fellowship. Anthony Wood says that he went into exile, which cannot be documented, but Strype states that he lived quietly at home as a Protestant.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">After the accession of Elizabeth I of England, Bull held benefices, according to Wood. He collected correspondence and manuscripts, that were kept by Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and worked in parallel with Foxe's Actes and Monuments.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Bull edited the Apology of Bishop John Hooper (1562) and, in the same year, Hooper's Exposition of Psalm xxiii. Other commentaries of Hooper's on three psalms appeared in Certeine comfortable Expositions of … Master John Hooper on Psalms 23, 62, 72, 77, gathered by Mr. H. B. (1580). He was also the editor of Christian Praiers and Holy Meditacions which appeared first by 1570; an earlier work from Bull's collection was Lidley's Prayers (1566). Christian Praiers was reprinted later in the century, and by the Parker Society.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">The major martyrological collection, Certain Most Godly, Fruitful and Comfortable Letters of such True Saintes and Holy Martyrs as in the Late Bloodye Persecution Gave their Lyves, was published in 1564, as by Miles Coverdale. In effect, it was by Bull.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Bull translated from Martin Luther A Commentarie on the Fiftene Psalmes called Psalmi Graduum, printed by Thomas Vautroullier (1577), with a preface by Foxe.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Biographies from Wikipedia</span></div></div></div>Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-69752818634618605572024-02-12T09:19:00.000+00:002024-02-12T09:19:27.776+00:00Sunday 11th February 2024 Sunday before Lent<p> Here, O My Lord, I See Thee Face To Face Percy Whitlock (1903-1946) Words H Bonar (1808-1889)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Percy William Whitlock (1 June 1903 in Chatham, Kent – 1 May 1946 in Bournemouth), was an English organist and post-romantic composer.<br />Percy Whitlock studied at London's Royal College of Music with Charles Villiers Stanford and Ralph Vaughan Williams. From 1921-1930, Whitlock was assistant organist at Rochester Cathedral in Kent. He served as Director of Music at St Stephen's Church, Bournemouth for the next five years, combining this from 1932 with the role of that town's borough organist, in which capacity he regularly played at the local Pavilion Theatre. After 1935 he worked for the Pavilion Theatre full-time. A tireless railway enthusiast, he wrote at length and with skill about his interest. Sometimes, for both prose and music, he used the pseudonym "Kenneth Lark." He worked closely with the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra; the orchestra's conductor from 1935-1940 was Richard Austin, whose father Frederic Austin dedicated his Organ Sonata to Whitlock.<br />Whitlock was diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1928. Near the end of his life, he lost his sight altogether, and he died in Bournemouth a few weeks before his 43rd birthday. For decades afterwards he remained largely forgotten. This neglect has eased in recent times, in particular through the activities and publications of the Percy Whitlock Trust, founded in 1983. The Percy Whitlock Trust was wound up in 2017, due to the expiry of copyright on Whitlock's compositions, and its assets and archive transferred to the Royal College of Organists.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEispgaLPTNPpOcsb6_rKa04YcYGKQceYyUasS7-D5qV4sKsK0hRcHOjoA9xc7BzT6ASAsPttWfq7qoeqmt4NoX82vfJXiBoHvlXijcH4kM4VdfSJmmcRTTQlLK7vNIJqWcDM3gCwOV4UiHz/s1600/percy+Whitlock.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="613" data-original-width="408" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEispgaLPTNPpOcsb6_rKa04YcYGKQceYyUasS7-D5qV4sKsK0hRcHOjoA9xc7BzT6ASAsPttWfq7qoeqmt4NoX82vfJXiBoHvlXijcH4kM4VdfSJmmcRTTQlLK7vNIJqWcDM3gCwOV4UiHz/s320/percy+Whitlock.PNG" width="212" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">Percy Whitlock from the Percy Whitlock Trust</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />Here O My Lord, I See Thee Face To Face is number 2 of 3 Introits, published in 1929.<br /><br />Horatius Bonar (known to his friends as Horace Bonar) was the son of James Bonar (1758-1821), Solicitor of Excise for Scotland, and his wife Marjory Pyott Maitland. The family lived in the Broughton district of Edinburgh. He was educated in Edinburgh.<br />He came from a long line of ministers who served a total of 364 years in the Church of Scotland. One of eleven children, his brothers John James and Andrew Alexander were also ministers of the Free Church of Scotland He married Jane Catherine Lundie in 1843 and five of their young children died in succession. Towards the end of their lives, one of their surviving daughters was left a widow with five small children and she returned to live with her parents.<br />In 1853, Bonar received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the University of Aberdeen.<br />He died at this home, 10 Palmerston Road in the Grange, 31 July 1889. They are buried together in the Canongate Kirkyard in the lair of Alexander Bonar (and his parents), near the bottom of the eastern extension.<br /><br />All information from Wikipedia.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Horatius_Bonar_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_13103.jpg" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.26px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Horatius Bonar - Project Gutenberg eText 13103.jpg" data-file-height="313" data-file-width="254" decoding="async" height="271" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Horatius_Bonar_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_13103.jpg" style="border: 0px none currentcolor; vertical-align: middle;" width="220" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">H Bonar from Wikipedia</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-43126490634349872382024-02-04T12:39:00.003+00:002024-02-04T12:43:29.248+00:00Sunday 4th February 2024 Candlemass<p><b>Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D Charles Wood</b></p><p>Today, the choir sang only the Nunc Dimittis, otherwise known as The Song Of Simeon as he sees Jesus being presented in the temple and knows that Jesus is the Messiah.</p><div style="text-align: left;">Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word.<br />For mine eyes have seen thy salvation;<br />Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;<br />To be a light to lighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of thy people Israel<br />(Luke 2.29-32)<br />Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost;<br />as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be world without end. Amen.</div><p style="text-align: left;">Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church </p><div><div>Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in D is a choral setting by the Irish composer Charles Wood of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis for the Anglican service of Evening Prayer. Scored for four-part choir and organ, it was written in 1898. It is also known as Evening Service in D major.</div><div><br /></div><div>Wood won an organ scholarship to the University of Cambridge where he became the organist at Caius and, later, a fellow of the college, having graduated with a doctorate in music. He set the combination of Magnificat and Nunc dimittis several times for the Evening Prayer of the Anglican Church, taking the words from the Book of Common Prayer. Evensong is a traditional daily service combining elements of vespers and compline. Wood's setting in D is his earliest, and has been regarded as his most popular version of the canticles. It has been said, together with the Evening Service in B-flat by Stanford, to mean for many "the epitome of Church of England worship".</div><div><br /></div><div>Magnificat (Song of Mary) and Nunc dimittis (Song of Simeon) are biblical canticles. Simeon sings the Nunc dimittis ("Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace") when Jesus is presented in the temple (Luke 2:29–32). Each canticle is concluded by a doxology. The canticles are part of the daily service of Evening Prayer in the Anglican church and have been set to music often.</div><div><br /></div><div>Wood set the text for a four-part choir and organ. He set each canticle as one movement. Both are concluded by the same doxology. </div><div><br /></div><div>In the Nunc dimittis, set in triple meter and marked Adagio, the basses alone sing most of the canticle text of the old Simeon. After the first line, the upper voices echo the text "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace" in homophony. After the second line, the upper voices repeat their first echo, but now in E major. After the third line, the upper voices repeat the last words, "Thy people Israel", ending in A major, and followed by the doxology.</div><div><br /></div><div>Taken from Wikipedia</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-85901155784956486462024-01-29T10:22:00.003+00:002024-01-29T10:22:54.444+00:00Sunday 28th January 2024 Epiphany 3<p> <b>Ave Verum Op 65 No 1 Faure </b></p><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Yet another Ave Verum, but this is written for Soprano and Alto voices (the tenors and basses get a rest). Although the start of the piece seems unfamiliar, the soprano and alto canon is in more familiar territory (O Jesu, Jesu dulcis - ).</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Ave verum corpus, natum de Maria Virgine,</div><div>Vere passum, immolatum in cruce pro homine,</div><div>Cujus latus perforatum vero fluxit cum sanguine;</div><div>Esto nobis praegustatum, mortis in examine.</div><div>O pie, O dulcis Jesu, Fili Mariae.</div><div>Tu nobis miserere. Amen.</div><div><br /></div><div>Hail, true body, born of Mary Virgin,</div><div>truly suffering, was sacrificed on the cross for mankind,</div><div>From whose pierced side flowed with true blood;</div><div>Be for us a foretaste In our final judgment.</div><div>O pious, O sweet Jesus, Son of Mary.</div><div>You have mercy on us. Amen.</div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div>Gabriel Urbain Fauré 12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers. Among his best-known works are his Pavane, Requiem, Sicilienne, nocturnes for piano and the songs "Après un rêve" and "Clair de lune". Although his best-known and most accessible compositions are generally his earlier ones, Fauré composed many of his most highly regarded works in his later years, in a more harmonically and melodically complex style.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fauré was born into a cultured but not especially musical family. His talent became clear when he was a small boy. At the age of nine, he was sent to the Ecole Niedermeyer music college in Paris, where he was trained to be a church organist and choirmaster. Among his teachers was Camille Saint-Saëns, who became a lifelong friend. After graduating from the college in 1865, Fauré earned a modest living as an organist and teacher, leaving him little time for composition. When he became successful in his middle age, holding the important posts of organist of the Église de la Madeleine and director of the Paris Conservatoire, he still lacked time for composing; he retreated to the countryside in the summer holidays to concentrate on composition. By his last years, Fauré was recognised in France as the leading French composer of his day. An unprecedented national musical tribute was held for him in Paris in 1922, headed by the president of the French Republic. Outside France, Fauré's music took decades to become widely accepted, except in Britain, where he had many admirers during his lifetime.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fauré's music has been described as linking the end of Romanticism with the modernism of the second quarter of the 20th century. When he was born, Chopin was still composing, and by the time of Fauré's death, jazz and the atonal music of the Second Viennese School were being heard. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, which describes him as the most advanced composer of his generation in France, notes that his harmonic and melodic innovations influenced the teaching of harmony for later generations. During the last twenty years of his life, he suffered from increasing deafness. In contrast with the charm of his earlier music, his works from this period are sometimes elusive and withdrawn in character, and at other times turbulent and impassioned.</div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Taken from Wikipedia</div>Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-41804803854146981762024-01-21T16:17:00.001+00:002024-01-21T16:17:06.770+00:00Sunday 21st February 2024 Epiphany 2<p> <b style="color: #646464;">"Turn thy face from my sins" by Thomas Attwood (1765 - 1838) based on Psalm 51 vv 9-11.</b></p><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464;">Attwood was born in London, the son of a musician in the royal band. He became a chorister in the Chapel Royal by the age of nine. He was sent abroad to study at the expense of the Prince of Wales (later George IV) who was impressed by his skill at the harpsichord. He was a favourite pupil of Mozart. He returned to London in 1787.</span><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464;"></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464;">In 1796 he was made organist of St Paul's and the same year composer of the Chapel Royal. For George IV's coronation he wrote the anthem "I was glad".</span><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /></span><p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #646464;">Much of his work is forgotten, only a few anthems regularly performed including "Turn thy face from my sins".</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-fkHYiJxDkkODR0nehNOotHtzX_9A1KMkmzp8lbpU-Vp7jH8nwKIS8JbUTdcAr1WPluJLatrNhq3Z6WH-AO8Kpyh3-eh6dZtnklVzSz83NIIb-TgnmvKpn45CYLvmqEgtsmY0Kok5FPamqVtBOa6xus8RjRS8_knLpbz9REW7NQeBXmLht1n__x6scN_r/s343/Thomas%20Attwood.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="273" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-fkHYiJxDkkODR0nehNOotHtzX_9A1KMkmzp8lbpU-Vp7jH8nwKIS8JbUTdcAr1WPluJLatrNhq3Z6WH-AO8Kpyh3-eh6dZtnklVzSz83NIIb-TgnmvKpn45CYLvmqEgtsmY0Kok5FPamqVtBOa6xus8RjRS8_knLpbz9REW7NQeBXmLht1n__x6scN_r/s320/Thomas%20Attwood.PNG" width="255" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Taken from Wikipedia<b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;"> from thy sins Thomas Attwood (1765-1838)</span></b></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: white;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;">Attwood was born in London, the son of a musician in the royal band. He became a chorister in the Chapel Royal by the age of nine. He was sent abroad to study at the expense of the Prince of Wales (later George IV) who was impressed by his skill at the harpsichord. He was a favourite pupil of Mozart. He returned to London in 1787.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;"></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;">In 1796 he was made organist of St Paul's and the same year composer of the Chapel Royal. For George IV's coronation he wrote the anthem "I was glad".</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;"></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;">Much of his work is forgotten, only a few anthems regularly performed including "Turn thy face from my sin</span></span></div>Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-55176531062838226372024-01-14T14:15:00.000+00:002024-01-14T14:15:05.758+00:00Sunday 14th January 2024 The Baptism of Christ<p> <span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464; font-size: 13px;">The Lamb Music John Tavener (1944 - 2013), Words William Blake (1757-1827)</span></p><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464; font-size: 13px;">Tavener was born in Wembley, London. He was a music scholar at Highgate School, where a fellow scholar was John Rutter. The school choir was often used by the BBC when they needed a boys' choir. He began to compose whilst at school and was also a pianist good enough to perform with the National Youth Orchestra. In 1961 he was organist and choirmaster at St John's Presbyterian church, Kensington, a post he held for 13 years. He went to the Royal Academy of Music in 1962 where he decided to concentrate on composition and gave up the piano.</span><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /></span><div style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white;">He came to prominence with his Cantata "The Whale" in 1968. In 1971 he began teaching at Trinity College of Music in London. In 1977 he converted to Russian Orthodox Church. Orthodox liturgy became a major influence on his composition. </span></div><div style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white;">"The Lamb" written in 1982 for his nephew's third birthday has become a choral classic. It was composed in a single afternoon for unaccompanied SATB choir, using William Blake's poem.</span></div><div style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white;">He was knighted in 2000 for his services to music. John Rutter describes Tavener as having the "very rare gift" of being able to "bring an audience to a deep silence."</span></div><div style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white;">William Blake was largely unrecognised during his life, he is now considered to be one of the seminal figures of poetry and art in the Romantic age. He was born in Soho and although his family were English Dissenters, he was baptised. The Bible was a profound influence on his work. In 1772 Blake was apprenticed to James Basire, an engraver, for 7 years. At the end of his term aged 21, he became a profession engraver. He had been taught an outmoded style and it is thought that this tuition held him back from greatness during his lifetime. </span></div><div style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white;">In 1779, Blake began as a student at the Royal Academy where he was somewhat rebellious against Joshua Reynolds.</span></div><div style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white;">In 1800, Blake moved to Felpham, illustrating poetry by William Hayley. He was unhappy in his work and returned to London after 3 years.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips.jpg/330px-William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #646464; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips.jpg/330px-William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips.jpg" border="0" height="200" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips.jpg/330px-William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="154" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px;"><span style="background-color: white;">William Blake<br />Wikipedia<br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table>Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-33996107156824935612023-12-25T00:00:00.001+00:002023-12-25T00:00:00.130+00:00Sunday 24th December 2023 Christmas Eve<div style="text-align: left;"> <b>Torches John Joubert (1927- 2019) From the Galacician</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div>John Pierre Herman Joubert (20 March 1927 – 7 January 2019) was a British composer of South African birth, particularly of choral works. He lived in Moseley, a suburb of Birmingham, England, for over 50 years. A music academic in the universities of Hull and Birmingham for 36 years, Joubert took early retirement in 1986 to concentrate on composing and remained active into his eighties. Though perhaps best known for his choral music, particularly the carols Torches and There is No Rose of Such Virtue and the anthem O Lorde, the Maker of Al Thing, Joubert composed over 160 works including three symphonies, four concertos and seven operas.</div><div><br /></div><div>Early life and education</div><div><br /></div><div>Strubenholm, the home of the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town, from which Joubert graduated in 1944 – photographed in June 2006.</div><div>Joubert was born on 20 March 1927 in Cape Town, South Africa. His ancestors on his father's side were Huguenots, French Protestants from Provence who settled at the Cape in 1688. His mother's ancestry was Dutch. Joubert was educated at Diocesan College in Rondebosch, South Africa, which was founded by the Anglican Church and maintained a high standard of music-making. He originally hoped to become a painter, and did a fair amount of art at school. However, at about the age of 15 years, he gradually became interested in music, though as a composer rather than a performer. "It was always going to be something creative. Oddly enough, the visual arts haven't been as great a stimulus as literature. I was also interested in writing. In fact, I was bored by everything at school except writing, art and music!" In school, he came under the guidance of the musical director Claude Brown, whose teaching he regarded as "an indispensable foundation to my subsequent musical career". According to Joubert, "through Brown, I learned all the Elgar choral works even before I heard them properly in full orchestral performance. Not only that idiom, but the idiom of Anglican church music generally. Parry and Stanford, and all the usual blokes." Through his teacher's encouragement, Joubert was able to participate in choral performances with the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra under William J. Pickerill, and subsequently to hear his works featured in performance.</div><div><br /></div><div>After graduating from the South African College of Music in 1944 he began studying musical composition privately with William Henry Bell, an Englishman well known locally as a composer of distinction. Bell exerted the greatest influence on his composition. In 1946 he was awarded a Performing Right Society Scholarship in composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Here, his principal teachers were Theodore Holland, Howard Ferguson and Alan Bush. During his four years at the Academy he won a number of prizes for composition, notably the Frederick Corder prize and the 1949 Royal Philharmonic Society prize.</div><div><br /></div><div>Professional career</div><div>In 1950 Joubert was appointed to a lectureship in music at the University of Hull, having graduated in the same year with a Bachelor of Music (B.Mus.) degree from the University of Durham. His works soon began to be performed and to attract favourable attention. His carol Torches (Op. 7a, 1951) (written for his wife Mary's pupils and based on a Galician (Eastern Europe) carol, it was published in 1961 in the first volume of Carols for Choirs) and the anthem O Lorde, the Maker of Al Thing (Op. 7b, 1952) (which won the 1952 Novello Anthem Competition), achieved almost instant popularity. Concerning Torches, Joubert recalled, "I've even had carol-singers come to the door and singing it, without knowing the composer lives inside." Together with the carol There is No Rose of Such Virtue (Op. 14, 1954), the three choral works have become classics of the Anglican repertoire. Works in other genres followed, mostly as the result of commissions from institutions such as the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Birmingham Festival Choral Society (named for the Birmingham Triennial Festival, the Royal Philharmonic Society and the BBC, and from musical festivals such as the Three Choirs Festival. By the end of his 12 years at Hull Joubert had composed, in addition to choral music, his Violin concerto (Op. 13, 1954), Symphony No. 1 (Op. 20, 1955), piano concerto (Op. 25, 1958), the full-length opera Silas Marner (Op. 31, 1961) (after the novel by George Eliot), and a body of chamber music including String quartet No. 1 in A-Flat (Op. 1, 1950), a string trio (Op. 30, 1958) and an Octet (Op. 33, 1961).</div><div><br /></div><div>Joubert moved to Moseley, Birmingham, in 1962 to take up a Senior Lectureship at the University of Birmingham; he was later made Reader in Music. In 1979 he was a visiting professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand. The number and scope of his works increased, and among those composed during the following decades were two further full-length operas, Under Western Eyes (Op. 51, 1968) and Jane Eyre (Op. 134) (based on the novels by Joseph Conrad and Charlotte Brontë respectively), Symphony No. 2 (Op. 68, 1970), various large-scale choral works with orchestras including the oratorio The Raising of Lazarus (Op. 67, 1970) and Herefordshire Canticles (Op. 93, 1979), a second and third piano sonata (Op. 71, 1972; Op. 157), a second and third string quartet (Op. 91, 1977; Op. 112, 1986), song cycles with piano and/or instrumental ensembles, and accompanied and unaccompanied smaller-scale choral music. On the wide scope of his work, Joubert has commented: "I've never really wanted to be pigeonholed as a composer. I've always wanted to write anything that I was either asked to, or wanted to write. I've never wanted to specialise, although I have to a certain extent been pigeonholed already. I'd rather not be looked upon as sort of limited in that way."</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The Aston Webb Building of the University of Birmingham. Joubert lectured at the University between 1962 and 1986, and remained an Honorary Senior Research Fellow there. In July 2007, the University conferred on him an Honorary Doctorate of Music (D.Mus.).</div><div>In 1986 Joubert took early retirement from the University to concentrate on composition, although he maintained his ties by becoming an Honorary Senior Research Fellow there in 1997. He was conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Music (D.Mus.) by the University of Durham in 1991, and received another from the University of Birmingham on 18 July 2007. He was Composer in Residence at the Peterborough Cathedral Festival in 1990 (which also commissioned his Six Short Preludes on English Hymn Tunes, for chamber organ (Op. 125, 1990), and at the Presteigne Festival in 1997, and served as the chairman of the Birmingham Chamber Music Society for 25 years.</div><div><br /></div><div>Joubert remained active as a composer. 2007 was the year of his 80th birthday, and was celebrated with a series of concerts, the "Joubertiade 2007", throughout the United Kingdom. These included world premières of the complete version of the oratorio Wings of Faith (Op. 143, 2000, 2003) which was performed by the Ex Cathedra choir, soloists and Academy of Vocal Music, and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Jeffrey Skidmore on 22 March 2007 at The Oratory, Birmingham; and a new Oboe Concerto performed by oboist Adrian Wilson and the Orchestra of the Swan conducted by David Curtis on 12 July 2007 at Lichfield Cathedral. The celebrations culminated in the world première of Five Songs of Incarnation (Op. 163, 2007) for tenor and choir which was commissioned through Joubertiade 2007 and performed on 24 November 2007 at St. Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham. In the same year, Lyrita released a celebratory CD of a recording (originally taped in 1994) of Joubert's Symphony No. 1 played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Vernon Handley.</div><div><br /></div><div>Personal life</div><div>Joubert and his wife Mary, a pianist, had a daughter Anna, who is a cellist, and a son Pierre, a violinist. He had four grandchildren: Matthew, John, Naomi and Alexander. He died on 7 January 2019, aged 91. Both Birmingham Bach Choir and Ex Cathedra sang at his funeral.</div></div><div> </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JohnJoubert.jpg" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.06px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" data-file-height="197" data-file-width="160" height="197" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/JohnJoubert.jpg" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); vertical-align: middle;" width="160" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">John Joubert text and picture from Wikipedia<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-56120382301885808492023-12-22T17:32:00.001+00:002023-12-22T17:32:08.992+00:00Sunday 17th December 2024 Advent 3<p><b style="color: #646464;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">J</span>ubilate Deo in B flat Charles Villiers Stanford</span></b></p><div style="color: #646464;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Taken from the Novello Copy</span></div><div style="color: #646464;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><i>Sir Charles Villiers Stanford has a perverse relationship with posterity. Remembered today largely for his choral miniatures, this restless symphonist was the unwilling Janus of British music. A significant presence on the European scene in his own lifetime, he was an outspoken critic of Wagner, Strauss and modernism in general. Nevertheless, as a formalist with flair and skill, his influence catalysed much of the great English music of the 20th century. As fellow composer George Dyson said: "In a certain sense the very rebellion he fought was the most obvious fruit of his methods."</i><br /><i><br /></i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"></span><i>The Jubilate in B flat displays the composers trademark mastery of thematic structures.</i><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><i><br /></i></span></div><p><br /></p><p> <b>The Angel Gabriel from heaven came. Sabine Baring-Gould Basque traditional arr. Edgar Pettman.</b></p><div><br /></div><div>This is a Basque Christmas folk carol based on the annunciation of the Virgin Mary by Archangel Gabriel. It was collected by Charles Bordes (1863 -1909) a french music teacher and composer and paraphrased into English by Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) an Anglican priest and collector of folk songs. It is commonly sung to an arrangement by Edgar Pettman (1866-1943) English organist, choral conductor and music editor.</div>Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-54911053684232201962023-12-03T12:31:00.001+00:002023-12-03T12:31:54.367+00:00Sunday 3rd December 2023 Advent 1<p> <b>In Night's Dim Shadows Lying Words Charles Coffin Music from the Katholisches Gesangbuch Arr George Guest</b></p><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div><br /></div><div>SATB Choir - accompanied or a cappella. A beautiful strophic setting of this Advent text by Charles Coffin (1676-1749). Used as an introit, an anthem, part of your Lessons and Carols service, communion music ... the possibilities abound.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>In night’s dim shadows lying,</div><div>Our limbs fast lock’d in sleep,</div><div>to thee, with faithful sighing,</div><div>Our souls their vigil keep.</div><div><br /></div><div>Desire of every nation,</div><div>Hear, Lord, our piteous cry;</div><div>Thou Word, the world’s salvation,</div><div>Uplift us where we lie.</div><div><br /></div><div>Lord, be thine Advent hasten’d,</div><div>Lest sin thy people mar;</div><div>The gates which Adam fasten’d —</div><div>The gates of heav’n, unbar.</div><div><br /></div><div>Son, to thine endless merit,</div><div>Redeemer, Saviour, Friend,</div><div>With Sire and Holy Spirit</div><div>Be praises without end. Amen.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Charles Coffin was born 4 October 1676 at Buzancy, Ardennes in the Duchy of Rheim and educated at College du Plessis. In 1701, he was appointed chief assistant to Charles Rollin, principal of the Collège de Beauvais. He succeeded Rollin as principal in 1712. That same year he was entrusted with the funeral oration for Louis, Duke of Burgundy, the father of Louis XV. In 1718. he became rector of the University of Paris, a post which he held until his death.</div><div><br /></div><div>Hymns</div><div>Coffin published in 1727 some of his Latin poems, for which he was already noted, and in 1736 the bulk of his hymns appeared in the Paris Breviary of that year, an edition of which was published in 1838 at Oxford by John Henry Newman. 1736 also saw the publication of Coffin's Hymni Sacri Auctore Carolo Coffin, and in 1755 a complete edition of his Works was issued in 2 vols.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Hymni Sacri included a poem adapted from the original chant, Jordanis oras prævia, which Rev. John Chandler later translated to the hymn On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's Cry set to the tune Winchester New for use at Matins during Advent. Chandler also translated Coffin's The Advent of Our King.</div><div><br /></div><div>Among his other works is an ode in praise of the wines of Champagne. This work is a version of a similar poem in which Bénigne Grenan, professor at Harcourt College, praised the pre-eminence of Burgundy wine, and that one of Charles Coffin's Jansenist friends, Marc-Antoine Hersan, had had fun reciting one evening at a dinner.</div><div><br /></div><div>Jansenism</div><div>While the papal bull Unigenitus condemned Jansenism, many in France interpreted it as an attack on the prerogatives of the French church. The University of Paris and the provincial Parlements were hotbeds of opposition. The University was known to harbor Jansenist sympathizers; the Parlement of Paris went so far as to threatened to confiscate the temporalities of the Archbishop. As rector of the University and clerk to the Parlement of Paris, even Coffin's hymns were viewed by some with suspicion.</div><div><br /></div><div>Death</div><div>Coffin died of pneumonia in Paris 20 June 1749. Due to his persistence in appealing against the apostolic constitution Unigenitus, under instructions from the Archbishop, who wished to make an example, the parish rector of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, refused to administer last rites to him, or give him a Christian burial Robert Darnton observed that, "To deny the final absolution of sins to Christians on their deathbed was, in the eyes of many, to send them straight to Purgatory, an unforgivable abuse of royal and ecclesiastical authority.” Four thousand Parisians joined the funeral procession. Because the crown had supported the suppression of the Jansenists, Danton notes that the religious rite took on political overtones. The Parlement of Paris subsequently issued an official and strong “remonstrance” to the king. Richard J. Janet sees the resulting popular demonstrations as contributing to the growing disenchantment with the monarchy that would later play into the coming Revolution.</div><div><br /></div><div>Coffin left a legacy to the college of Beauvais, and founded awards at the University of Paris.</div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrzWqKy-5r3vP61Jpg5-fAZi3dhK5qEuDzEQ6jf5Vph3LhpRxy9vFXfilIDS8keK6dPfpGi7dVuOka5HJ9JfezfjxlPWcFgqfDsJHUZ2V_1Oe8ihJ-6IjIqhhYxJ_p8r3zx-ZCnXhk8H18b5wLmfgdA-SwS6PnwQvoAaXu23ce-42pn6lneUH4XunitA/s850/Charles_Coffin_par_Duflos.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="607" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrzWqKy-5r3vP61Jpg5-fAZi3dhK5qEuDzEQ6jf5Vph3LhpRxy9vFXfilIDS8keK6dPfpGi7dVuOka5HJ9JfezfjxlPWcFgqfDsJHUZ2V_1Oe8ihJ-6IjIqhhYxJ_p8r3zx-ZCnXhk8H18b5wLmfgdA-SwS6PnwQvoAaXu23ce-42pn6lneUH4XunitA/s320/Charles_Coffin_par_Duflos.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Taken from Wikipedia</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div>George Guest was born in Bangor, Gwynedd. His father was an organist and Guest assisted him by acting as organ blower. He became a chorister at Bangor Cathedral and subsequently at Chester Cathedral, where he took organ lessons from the sub-organist, Dr. Roland Middleton. He passed the examinations for ARCO in 1940 and FRCO in 1942. By this time he had become the organist and choirmaster of Connah's Quay parish church, Flintshire.</div><div><br /></div><div>Being proud of his Welsh roots, from the 1970s onwards, Guest took a personal interest in the Cambridge University Welsh Society (Cymdeithas Y Mabinogi), sponsoring many of its events and providing a welcome face for Welsh students away from home.</div><div><br /></div><div>At the age of 18 he was called up for military service, and joined the Royal Air Force, being posted to India in 1945. On leaving the services in 1947 he took up the post of sub-organist at Chester Cathedral. The cathedral organist, Malcolm Boyle, encouraged him to apply for the organ scholarship at St John's College, Cambridge, for which he was successful.</div><div><br /></div><div>At Cambridge he studied under Robin Orr, who had served as organist and choirmaster at St. John's College since 1938. In Guest's final year as Organ Scholar, Robin Orr announced that he intended to retire, and the College Council offered the post to Guest, who took over the position in 1951.</div><div><br /></div><div>Within five years of Guest becoming organist and choirmaster, the whole future of the choir at St. John's College came into question, with the proposed closure of the day school which provided the choristers. Guest, with the support of his predecessor, persuaded the College to fund a Choir School.</div><div><br /></div><div>Under George Guest's direction, the choir built up a formidable reputation, challenging the supremacy of the choir of King's College, Cambridge. Guest introduced a more "continental" tone into the choir, as George Malcolm was doing at Westminster Cathedral.</div><div><br /></div><div>The choir began broadcasting on the BBC in the early 1950s and started making recordings in 1958. By the time of Guest's retirement in 1991, the choir had recorded sixty LPs or CDs under his direction.</div><div><br /></div><div>For many years from 1972 the BBC broadcast Evensong from St. John's College on every Ash Wednesday, and the Advent Carol Service each year since 1981. During George Guest's tenure, the choir undertook many overseas tours.</div><div><br /></div><div>In 1987 Guest was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours.</div><div><br /></div><div>Herbert Howells and Michael Tippett are among the many composers who wrote liturgical settings for the St. John's College choir whilst George Guest was organist and choirmaster. They also include the French composer Jean Langlais, who wrote a setting of the psalm Beatus vir for the choir: a rare occurrence of a Continental composer writing for the English cathedral tradition.</div><div><br /></div><div>Organ Scholars who studied under George Guest include:</div><div><br /></div><div>Sir David Lumsden (Southwell Minster, New College, Oxford, Principal of the Royal Academy of Music, London)</div><div>Brian Runnett (organist, Norwich Cathedral)</div><div>Jonathan Bielby (organist, Wakefield Cathedral)</div><div>Jonathan Rennert (St Michael's, Cornhill)</div><div>David Hill (choral director) (sub-organist, Durham Cathedral; organist, Westminster Cathedral; organist, Winchester Cathedral; organist and choirmaster, St John's College, Cambridge; now Chief Conductor, BBC Singers)</div><div>Robert Huw Morgan (University Organist, Stanford Memorial Church)</div><div>Adrian Lucas (organist, Worcester Cathedral)</div><div>Andrew Lumsden (Southwark Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Lichfield Cathedral, Winchester Cathedral)</div><div>Sir Stephen Cleobury (King's College, Cambridge)</div><div>John Scott (St Paul's Cathedral, London, and subsequently St Thomas Fifth Avenue, New York City)</div><div>Andrew Nethsingha (Truro Cathedral; Gloucester Cathedral; Organist and Director of Music, St John's College, Cambridge)</div><div>Preceded by</div><div>Robin Orr</div><div>Director of Music, St John's College, Cambridge</div><div>1951–1991<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Succeeded by</div><div>Christopher Robinson</div><div><br /></div><div>George Guest was a guest on Desert Island Discs in 1976 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/a5168c08#p009n0jz). He was a lifelong supporter of Chester City FC. The famous British baritone Simon Keenlyside was a chorister and subsequently a choral scholar in the choir of St John's College, Cambridge while George Guest was the choirmaster there. Actor Clive Mantle was another chorister at St. John's.</div><div><br /></div><div>Taken from Wikipedia</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjY6HLmdArf9DaOMqp_z6sNZz15wjSMfoinDhExAOV_7ABC97Epcay20w8ZQF08yLdqkMyzrA8V3TbbC2UoGAxh3ZwE5AQN9GDSf1qVMQDTRqju8ud14k_zb0mcObdcKMBDgg2Gnw9mgwRf5h0aUYed876yEXSZ1rdQQ9NvGDUixPOqzGZTOe0vJnLEKQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1110" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjY6HLmdArf9DaOMqp_z6sNZz15wjSMfoinDhExAOV_7ABC97Epcay20w8ZQF08yLdqkMyzrA8V3TbbC2UoGAxh3ZwE5AQN9GDSf1qVMQDTRqju8ud14k_zb0mcObdcKMBDgg2Gnw9mgwRf5h0aUYed876yEXSZ1rdQQ9NvGDUixPOqzGZTOe0vJnLEKQ" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">George Guest on Desert Island Discs</div></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-37055991051438683332023-11-26T11:00:00.003+00:002023-11-26T11:00:00.136+00:00Sunday 26th November 2023 Christ The King<p> <b style="background-color: white; color: #646464;">Ave Verum Corpus W A Mozart (K618)</b></p><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464;">Ave Verum Corpus (Hail, true body) is a setting of the Latin Hymn, in D major. It was written for Anton Stoll, a friend and church musician of St Stephen, Baden.</span><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464;">It was composed in 1791 whilst visiting his wife Constanze who was pregnant with their 6th child and staying at the spa Baden bei Wien. It was composed for the feast of Corpus Christi. Mozart's manuscript has only "Sotto voce" marked at the beginning with no other markings.</span><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464;">Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)</span><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464;">Mozart was a child prodigy competent on keyboard and violin. He began composing at the age of five. He performed around Europe for royalty. At the age of 17 he was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court but was restless and travelled looking for a better position. Whilst visiting Vienna he was dismissed from his position in Salzburg. He remained in Vienna, where he gained fame but no financial security.</span><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464;">He composed more than 600 works, many acknowledged as the finest in symphonies, concertante, operatic, chamber and choral music. He remains one of the best loved classical composers, whose work influenced many composers. Joseph Haydn said of Mozart "Posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years."</span><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><img alt="" class="mw-mmv-final-image jpg mw-mmv-dialog-is-open" crossorigin="anonymous" height="320" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Croce-Mozart-Detail.jpg" style="border: 0px none rgb(0, 0, 0); display: block; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px; vertical-align: middle;" width="246" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px;"><span style="background-color: white;">W A Mozart from Wikipedia<br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><p><br /></p>Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-41517529995959896812023-11-23T12:13:00.000+00:002023-11-23T12:13:01.696+00:00Sunday 19th November 2023 Second before Advent<p> <b>Benedictus in C C V Stanford</b></p><div>The Benedictus was composed in 1909 as part of Stanford's Morning and Evening Service together with the Office of Holy Communion Op 115. Stanford was given the choice to hear one of his services sung at Matins at York Minster in 1923 when he was a guest of the organist, Edward . "He chose the one in C", Bairstow recalled, "for he said he had never heard it!"</div><div><div><br style="background-color: #3bc572;" /></div></div><div><div><div><div>Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) thought to be one of our great British composers was actually Irish, born in Dublin, although educated at The University of Cambridge and then studied music in Leipzig and Berlin.</div><div><br /></div><div>Whilst an undergraduate, he was appointed organist of Trinity College, Cambridge and was one of the founding professors of the Royal College of Music, where he taught composition for the rest of his life. He was also Professor of Music at Cambridge. His pupils included Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams whose fame went on to surpass his own.</div><div><br /></div><div>He is best remembered for his sacred choral compositions for church performance in the Anglican tradition. Along with Hubert Parry and Alexander Mackenzie, he was thought responsible for the renaissance of music in the British Isles.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5srshM0C5t6MDYTyU8k4Buc-u-X5Jw4xVEvXTTCHpYKR9BQPEeLP9oj3OyUe0CRD5iJaEJcFX-eWqxEClCte0l5JDG0uSnmXG3nkCe4pNpC55Z4xDjknX3aWqqgh3BFVc8LTi9HWpscdu/" style="color: #3d74a5; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="110" data-original-width="110" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5srshM0C5t6MDYTyU8k4Buc-u-X5Jw4xVEvXTTCHpYKR9BQPEeLP9oj3OyUe0CRD5iJaEJcFX-eWqxEClCte0l5JDG0uSnmXG3nkCe4pNpC55Z4xDjknX3aWqqgh3BFVc8LTi9HWpscdu/" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="240" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Charles Villiers Stanford from Wikipedia</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br style="background-color: #3bc572; color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">God Be In My Head John Rutter<br /><br /><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #646464;">God be in my head is one of the earliest English prayers found in the Sarum Primer of 1514. It is a prayer for God's guidance. John Rutter has written a beautiful setting to these profound yet simple words</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #646464;">.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #646464;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #646464;"><div>God be in my head,</div><div>And in my understanding;</div><div>God be in mine eyes,</div><div>And in my looking;</div><div>God be in my mouth,</div><div>And in my speaking;</div><div>God be in my heart,</div><div>And in my thinking;</div><div>God be at mine end,</div><div>And at my departing.</div></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464;">John Rutter was born in London in 1945 and had his first musical training at Highgate School as a chorister. He studied music at Clare College, Cambridge where he wrote his first published music and had his first recording whilst still an undergraduate.</span></span><br /><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2996236642781728896" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; width: 970px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; padding: 4px; position: relative;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AJohn_Rutter.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #646464; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;" title="By vocalessence [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons"><img alt="John Rutter" height="200" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/John_Rutter.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="131" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px;"><span style="background-color: white;">John Rutter [<em>Wikimedia Commons</em>]</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2996236642781728896" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; width: 970px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2996236642781728896" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; width: 970px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2996236642781728896" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; width: 970px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2996236642781728896" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; width: 970px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2996236642781728896" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; width: 970px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2996236642781728896" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; width: 970px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2996236642781728896" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; width: 970px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2996236642781728896" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; width: 970px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2996236642781728896" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; width: 970px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2996236642781728896" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; width: 970px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2996236642781728896" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; width: 970px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2996236642781728896" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; width: 970px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2996236642781728896" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #646464; line-height: 1.4; width: 970px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">His compositions cover a wide variety of musical genres but he is well know by all choirs who must have some</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2996236642781728896" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #646464; line-height: 1.4; width: 970px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Rutter in their repertoire. He formed the Cambridge Singers and spends his time composing and conducting.<br /><br />He was awarded a CBE for services to music in the 2007 Queen's New Year Honours List.</span><div style="clear: both;"></div></div><div class="post-footer" style="color: #646464; line-height: 1.6; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px;"></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-28220412199972894652023-11-12T11:30:00.001+00:002023-11-12T11:30:00.139+00:00Sunday 12 th November 2023 Remembrance Sunday<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #646464; font-size: 13px;">So They Gave Their Bodies Peter Aston (1938- 2013) From Pericles' Funeral Oration (Athens 431BC) translation Alfred Zimmern</span></p><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464; font-size: 13px;">Peter Aston was born in Birmingham. He studied at The Birmingham School of Music and The University of York. In 1964 he was a lecturer in music at The University York. Ten years layter he was appointed Professor of Music at The University of East Anglia and eventually Emeritus Professor of Composition. He is best known for his liturgical works although also wrote chamber works for voice and instrument, choral and orchestral works and an opera for children. He was a lay canon in Norwich Cathedral and founded the Norwich Festival of Contemporary Church Music. He founded the Tudor Consort and English Baroque Ensembles.</span><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://themorleyconsortofvoices.weebly.com/peter-aston.html" style="background-color: white; color: #fed722; font-size: 16px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="Picture" class="galleryImageBorder wsite-image" height="320" src="https://themorleyconsortofvoices.weebly.com/uploads/8/5/3/7/8537229/5438740.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.13); margin: 5px 10px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 3px; position: relative;" width="226" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Peter Aston from The Morley Consort of Voices</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464; font-size: 13px;">Pericles' Funeral Oration was written by Thucydides for his history of the Peloponnesian war. Pericles delivers the oration to not only bury the dead, but to praise democracy.</span><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464; font-size: 13px;">"So they gave their bodies to the commonwealth and received, each for his own memory, praise that will never die, and with it the grandest of all sepulchres, not that in which their mortal bones are laid, but a home in the minds of men, where their glory remains fresh to stir to speech or action as the occasion may require."</span><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Discurso_funebre_pericles.PNG" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.06px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" data-file-height="573" data-file-width="719" decoding="async" height="239" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Discurso_funebre_pericles.PNG/450px-Discurso_funebre_pericles.PNG" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 8px; position: relative; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Pericles' Funeral Oration by Philipp Foltz</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p>Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-89652629277822454282023-11-05T13:05:00.001+00:002023-11-05T13:05:12.111+00:00Sunday 5th Noveber 2023 All Saints<p><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;">"Give us the wings of faith" by Ernest Bullock, words Isaac Watts.</span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;">This anthem was written for All Saints' Day, the words from a hymn by Isaac Watts.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;">Sir Ernest Bullock (1890-1979) was not primarily a composer, but an educationalist and organist. He was born in Wigan, where he became organist at his parish church. He was then assistant organist at Leeds Parish Church in 1907. In 1908, he received his Bachelor of Music from the University of Durham, gaining his Doctor of Music in 1914. In 1912, he was assistant organist at Manchester Cathedral. After WW1 he was organist at St Michael's College, Tenbury, almost immediately moving to Exeter as cathedral organist in 1919. In 1928 he succeeded Sir Sidney Nicholson as Master of Choristers in Westminster Abbey. He provided music for the coronation of King George VI, writing most of the fanfares for that and also the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;"> In 1941, Bullock went to Glasgow as the Gardiner Professor in Music at the university. In 1952 he became director of the Royal College of Music. He was knighted in 1951 and he retired in 1960.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;">Isaac Watts (1674-1748) was born in Southampton, the son of a committed religious nonconformist. His father, also Isaac was twice incarcerated for his beliefs. He received a classical education at the King Edward VI school, but was barred from attending Oxford or Cambridge universities as they were restricted to Anglicans. He went to the Dissenting Academy at Stoke Newington in 1690. He was pastor of a large independent chapel in London where he helped train preachers. However, his religious opinions were more ecumenical than was usual for a nonconformist. He promoted education and scholarship rather than preaching for a particular sect. He is famous for the writing of the words of hymns. He promoted hymn singing and his prolific hymn-writing helped to usher in a new era of English worship.</span></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Isaac_Watts_from_NPG.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="658" height="320" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Isaac_Watts_from_NPG.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="263" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><em>Isaac Watts</em>, by unknown artist {Wikimedia commons]</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p>Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-6978532290641253392023-10-16T09:42:00.005+01:002023-10-16T10:10:02.614+01:00Sunday 15th October 2023 Trinity 19<p> <b>Benedictus in B flat C V Stanford</b></p><br />This is the Canticle of Zechariah, father of John the Baptist, and is taken from Luke's Gospel (Luke 1:68-79) It is sung daily at Morning Prayer.<br /><br />Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) thought to be one of our great British composers was actually Irish, born in Dublin, although educated at The University of Cambridge and then studied music in Leipzig and Berlin.<br /><br />Whilst an undergraduate, he was appointed organist of Trinity College, Cambridge and was one of the founding professors of the Royal College of Music, where he taught composition for the rest of his life. He was also Professor of Music at Cambridge. His pupils included Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams whose fame went on to surpass his own.<br /><br />He is best remembered for his sacred choral compositions for church performance in the Anglican tradition. Along with Hubert Parry and Alexander Mackenzie, he was thought responsible for the renaissance of music in the British Isles.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stanford-Bassano-1921.jpg" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.06px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="head and shoulders shot of an elderly man with full head of hair, moustache and pince-nez" class="thumbimage" data-file-height="716" data-file-width="537" decoding="async" height="293" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Stanford-Bassano-1921.jpg/330px-Stanford-Bassano-1921.jpg" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); vertical-align: middle;" width="220" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">C V Stanford in 1921 from Wikipedia<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><b>Ye Servants of th'all Bounteous Lord Samuel Webbe Junior</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div>This is a two verse anthem scored for SATB suitable for all occasions. It is a joyful anthem praising God eternally. <span style="background-color: white; color: #646464;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a setting of Psalm 113, which is in regular use in Jewish, Catholic, Anglican and Protestant liturgies. It has been set to music often. </span></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Samuel Webbe the younger (1768–1843) was an English music teacher and composer.</div><div><br /></div><div>The son of Samuel Webbe (1740–1816), he was born in London, and studied the organ, piano, and vocal composition under his father and Muzio Clementi.</div><div><br /></div><div>Webbe in his active interest in glee clubs followed in the footsteps of his father, and composed many canons and glees. In 1798 he moved to Liverpool, as organist to the Paradise Street Unitarian Chapel, where John Yates (1755–1826) was minister.</div><div><br /></div><div>Around 1817 Webbe joined John Bernard Logier in London, teaching the use of the chiroplast. There Webbe became organist to the chapel of the Spanish embassy, before returning to Liverpool, where he was appointed organist to St. Nicholas and to St. Patrick's Roman Catholic chapel. He died at Hammersmith on 25 November 1843.</div><div><br /></div><div>Webbe published, with his father, A Collection of Original Psalm Tunes, 1800. He was also the author of anthems, madrigals, and glees, besides a Mass and a Sanctus, and a Chant for St Paul's Cathedral. He wrote settings for numerous songs and ballads. About 1830 he published Convito Armonico, a collection of madrigals, glees, duets, canons, and catches, by well-known composers.</div><div><br /></div><div>Webbe married Diana Smith in 1803. Their son Egerton Webbe (1810–1840) wrote on musical subjects; and their daughter Louisa married Edward Holmes.</div></div><div>Taken from Wikipedia</div>Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-45009056874970842702023-10-08T16:59:00.000+01:002023-10-08T16:59:03.646+01:00Sunday 8th October 2023 Trinity 18<p><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #646464; font-size: 13px;">Teach Me O Lord Thomas Attwood (1765-1838)</span></b></p><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464; font-size: 13px;">Thomas Attwood was an English composer and organist. Attwood was born in London, the son of a musician in the royal band. He became a chorister in the Chapel Royal by the age of nine. He was sent abroad to study at the expense of the Prince of Wales (later George IV) who was impressed by his skill at the harpsichord. He was a favourite pupil of Mozart. He returned to London in 1787.</span><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464; font-size: 13px;">In 1796 he was made organist of St Paul's and the same year composer of the Chapel Royal. For George IV's coronation he wrote the anthem "I was glad".</span><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464; font-size: 13px;">Much of his work is forgotten, only a few anthems regularly performed including "Turn thy face from my sins". See 30th October 2017.</span><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /></span><div style="color: #646464; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Today we sang "Teach Me O Lord " which is Psalm 119 v33.</span></div><div style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Attwood_(composer).jpg" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.06px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" data-file-height="944" data-file-width="766" decoding="async" height="271" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Thomas_Attwood_%28composer%29.jpg/330px-Thomas_Attwood_%28composer%29.jpg" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 8px; position: relative; vertical-align: middle;" width="220" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Thomas Atwood from Wikipedia</span></td></tr></tbody></table>Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-51655859767293587002023-10-01T16:00:00.034+01:002023-10-01T16:00:00.154+01:00Sunday 1st October 2023 Harvest Choral Evensong<div style="text-align: left;"><b>Magnificat and Nunc Dimitis in D Charles Wood</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div>Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in D is a choral setting by the Irish composer Charles Wood of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis for the Anglican service of Evening Prayer. Scored for four-part choir and organ, it was written in 1898. It is also known as Evening Service in D major.</div><div><br /></div><div>Wood won an organ scholarship to the University of Cambridge where he became the organist at Caius and, later, a fellow of the college, having graduated with a doctorate in music. He set the combination of Magnificat and Nunc dimittis several times for the Evening Prayer of the Anglican Church, taking the words from the Book of Common Prayer. Evensong is a traditional daily service combining elements of vespers and compline. Wood's setting in D is his earliest, and has been regarded as his most popular version of the canticles. It has been said, together with the Evening Service in B-flat by Stanford, to mean for many "the epitome of Church of England worship".</div><div><br /></div><div>Magnificat (Song of Mary) and Nunc dimittis (Song of Simeon) are biblical canticles. Mary sings the Magnificat ("My soul doth magnify the Lord") on the occasion of her visit to Elizabeth, as narrated in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 1:39–56). Simeon sings the Nunc dimittis ("Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace") when Jesus is presented in the temple (Luke 2:29–32). Each canticle is concluded by a doxology. The canticles are part of the daily service of Evening Prayer in the Anglican church and have been set to music often.</div><div><br /></div><div>Wood set the text for a four-part choir and organ. He set each canticle as one movement. Both are concluded by the same doxology. The Magnificat is in common time, marked Allegro. All voices begin in unison with a slow rising scale in halfnotes, beginning with D. For "and my spirit has rejoiced", they move in lively rhythm, calming to the halfnotes for "in God, my saviour". With similar attention to detail, Wood set the words, with the choir often in homophony. Polyphony is reserved for the doxology "Glory be to the father".</div><div><br /></div><div>In the Nunc dimittis, set in triple meter and marked Adagio, the basses alone sing most of the canticle text of the old Simeon. After the first line, the upper voices echo the text "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace" in homophony. After the second line, the upper voices repeat their first echo, but now in E major. After the third line, the upper voices repeat the last words, "Thy people Israel", ending in A major, and followed by the doxology.</div><div><br /></div><div>Taken from Wikipedia</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Ye Shall Dwell In The Land J Stainer</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>The words for this Harvest anthem are taken from Ezekiel 36:28,30,34,35 and Psalm 136:1</div><div><br /></div><div>And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.</div><div>And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, </div><div>And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.</div><div>And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden</div><div>O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Sir John Stainer (6 June 1840 – 31 March 1901) was an English composer and organist whose music, though seldom performed today (with the exception of The Crucifixion, still heard at Passiontide in some churches of the Anglican Communion), was very popular during his lifetime. His work as choir trainer and organist set standards for Anglican church music that are still influential. He was also active as an academic, becoming Heather Professor of Music at Oxford.</div><div><br /></div><div>Stainer was born in Southwark, London, in 1840, the son of a schoolmaster. He became a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral when aged ten and was appointed to the position of organist at St Michael's College, Tenbury at the age of sixteen. He later became organist at Magdalen College, Oxford, and subsequently organist at St Paul's Cathedral. When he retired owing to his poor eyesight and deteriorating health, he returned to Oxford to become Professor of Music at the university. He died unexpectedly while on holiday in Italy in 1901.</div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKRiLW8J6rQQgtvYHfzUbHCi66MC9SBdCOK3QN1XbAAAivP0wnlyW3al4B0PVe09iNSrnX6s4pQfZFPGnwEjJUZcKiEp29X4NMQdcqodz2AC-ubbHBKZ7VsuIIqhed07CPha8p187LW0lc3pLkd3LgzoERr-hmxANR9eKtQ2ra1fI_Mdv_--hunm0XLg68" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="330" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKRiLW8J6rQQgtvYHfzUbHCi66MC9SBdCOK3QN1XbAAAivP0wnlyW3al4B0PVe09iNSrnX6s4pQfZFPGnwEjJUZcKiEp29X4NMQdcqodz2AC-ubbHBKZ7VsuIIqhed07CPha8p187LW0lc3pLkd3LgzoERr-hmxANR9eKtQ2ra1fI_Mdv_--hunm0XLg68" width="178" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">J Stainer taken from Wikipedia</div><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-24280536646754926562023-10-01T12:35:00.007+01:002023-10-01T12:37:25.273+01:00Sunday 1st October 2023 Harvest Thanksgiving<div style="text-align: left;"><b>Bless the Lord Andrew Carter</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">This was sung by the junior choir after two new members were inducted by Fr Chris. It is a modern reworking of the Benedicite written specifically for a children's choir.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid edgtf-section edgtf-content-aligment-left" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #606060; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px -15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="clearfix edgtf-full-section-inner" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wpb_animate_when_almost_visible wpb_fadeInLeft fadeInLeft wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6 wpb_start_animation animated" style="animation-duration: 1s; animation-fill-mode: both; animation-name: fadeInLeft; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 749px;"><div class="vc_column-inner vc_custom_1592723508301" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 20px !important; padding: 20px 15px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 749px;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 35px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Andrew Carter’s music is performed worldwide. As composer, guest conductor and workshop leader he has travelled extensively in the United States, Antipodes and Europe. A twenty-five year association with Oxford University Press has established his reputation as a writer of both choral miniatures and larger scale concert works for chorus and orchestra. Of these latter the widely performed Benedicite was followed by Te Deum, Musick’s Jubilee, Horizons, Song of Stillness, and Laudate Dominum. Of similar scale, the Magnificat (MorningStar 2004), is already proving popular. In a lighter vein, the Three Nonsensical Songs for upper voices and orchestra were premiered by Quad Cities Symphony in 2005. After conducting his Magnificat in North Carolina in April 2008, Andrew gave workshops in Toronto and attended the celebrated St Olaf’s College in Minnesota as composer-in-residence.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="wpb_animate_when_almost_visible wpb_fadeInRight fadeInRight wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-2 wpb_start_animation animated" style="animation-duration: 1s; animation-fill-mode: both; animation-name: fadeInRight; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 249.663px;"><div class="vc_column-inner vc_custom_1592723517473" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 20px !important; padding: 20px 15px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 249.663px;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background: 0px 0px; 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box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 749px;"><div class="vc_column-inner vc_custom_1592723535775" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 20px !important; padding: 20px 15px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 749px;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 35px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A particular honour in the field of church music was the invitation to write Missa Sancti Pauli for the 1997 tercentenary celebrations of Wren’s St Paul’s Cathedral. Over the years several of Andrew’s carols have been included in the renowned Christmas Eve broadcast from King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, with Mary’s Magnificat featuring again in 2009. Andrew Carter’s Christmas Carols, conducted by the composer with John Scott at the organ, was named amongst the ‘ten best ever’ Christmas CDs in the BBC Music Magazine (Nov, 2007).</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-2" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 249.663px;"><div class="vc_column-inner" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 249.663px;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid edgtf-section edgtf-content-aligment-left" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #606060; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px -15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="clearfix edgtf-full-section-inner" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-2" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 249.663px;"><div class="vc_column-inner" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 249.663px;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div></div><div class="wpb_animate_when_almost_visible wpb_fadeInLeft fadeInLeft wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6 wpb_start_animation animated" style="animation-duration: 1s; animation-fill-mode: both; animation-name: fadeInLeft; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 749px;"><div class="vc_column-inner vc_custom_1592723542117" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 20px !important; padding: 20px 15px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 749px;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 35px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Andrew’s lifelong love of the organ is reflected in the festive Organ Concerto (MorningStar 2008) and an album of organ pieces (Oxford) which includes the much acclaimed Toccata on Veni Emmanuel. More recently, the substantial 22-variation Passacaglia (Banks 2007), written to honour Francis Jackson’s 90th birthday, was premiered by John Scott Whiteley in York Minster.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="wpb_animate_when_almost_visible wpb_fadeInRight fadeInRight wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-2 wpb_start_animation animated" style="animation-duration: 1s; animation-fill-mode: both; animation-name: fadeInRight; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 249.663px;"><div class="vc_column-inner vc_custom_1592723558604" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 20px !important; padding: 20px 15px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 249.663px;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background: 0px 0px; 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animation-fill-mode: both; animation-name: fadeInRight; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 749px;"><div class="vc_column-inner vc_custom_1592723571510" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 20px !important; padding: 20px 15px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 749px;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 35px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Born in Leicester in the English Midlands, Andrew Carter studied music at Leeds University before settling in York. During his time as a bass songman at York Minster, he founded the Chapter House Choir, the award winning mixed-voice concert group which he conducted for seventeen years, and for whom he penned many of his early published arrangements.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Taken from Andrew Carter's website</p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><b> "Thou Visitest The Earth" from "Thou O God Art Praised in Sion" Dr Maurice Greene (1696 - 1755)</b></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br />"Thou Visitest The Earth" is a setting of Psalm 65 for solo tenor or baritone and SATB chorus. In our case today, the solo was taken by one of our altos. It is commonly used as a Harvest anthem speaking of God's blessings on the earth.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br />Maurice Green was born in London, his father, Thomas Greene, was chaplain of the Chapel Royal and canon of Salisbury. Young Maurice began his studies under Jeremiah Clarke and Charles King at St Paul's Cathedral. In 1714 he gained his first musical post as organist at St Dunstan-in-the-West on Fleet Street. In 1717 he became organist at St Paul's Cathedral.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br />Greene was a founder member of the Castle Society, established in 1724. He also helped found the Academy of Ancient Music.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br />In 1730, Greene was admitted "Doctor in Musica" at Cambridge University and later was made a professor of music there.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br />In 1735, Greene was elected Master of the King's Music, the highest musical position in the land.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br />Originally a friend of Handel, Handel had a disagreement with another composer, Giovanni Bononcini, but when Greene continued his friendship with Bononcini, this upset Handel and a lifelong feud ensued.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-52680856807843476082023-09-24T13:12:00.003+01:002023-09-24T13:12:52.207+01:00Sunday 24th September 2023 Trinity 16<div style="text-align: left;"><b>Panis Angelicus Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Panis angelicus (Latin for "Bread of Angels" or "Angelic Bread") is the penultimate stanza of the hymn "Sacris solemniis" written by Saint Thomas Aquinas for the feast of Corpus Christi as part of a complete liturgy of the feast, including prayers for the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><br /></div><div>The strophe of "Sacris solemniis" that begins with the words Panis angelicus ("bread of angels") has often been set to music separately from the rest of the hymn. </div><div><br /></div><div><div>Panis angelicus</div><div>fit panis hominum;</div><div>Dat panis cœlicus</div><div>figuris terminum:</div><div>O res mirabilis!</div><div>Manducat Dominum</div><div>pauper, servus et humilis.</div><div><br /></div><div>Te trina Deitas</div><div>unaque poscimus:</div><div>Sic nos tu visita,</div><div>sicut te colimus;</div><div>Per tuas semitas</div><div>duc nos quo tendimus,</div><div>Ad lucem quam inhabitas.</div><div>Amen.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thus Angels' Bread is made</div><div>the Bread of man today:</div><div>the Living Bread from heaven</div><div>with figures dost away:</div><div>O wondrous gift indeed!</div><div>the poor and lowly may</div><div>upon their Lord and Master feed.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thee, therefore, we implore,</div><div>o Godhead, One in Three,</div><div>so may Thou visit us</div><div>as we now worship Thee;</div><div>and lead us on Thy way,</div><div>That we at last may see</div><div>the light wherein Thou dwellest aye.</div><div>Amen.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Second Piano Concerto (1868), the First Cello Concerto (1872), Danse macabre (1874), the opera Samson and Delilah (1877), the Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Third ("Organ") Symphony (1886) and The Carnival of the Animals (1886).</div><div><br /></div><div>Saint-Saëns was a musical prodigy; he made his concert debut at the age of ten. After studying at the Paris Conservatoire he followed a conventional career as a church organist, first at Saint-Merri, Paris and, from 1858, La Madeleine, the official church of the French Empire. After leaving the post twenty years later, he was a successful freelance pianist and composer, in demand in Europe and the Americas.</div><div><br /></div><div>As a young man, Saint-Saëns was enthusiastic for the most modern music of the day, particularly that of Schumann, Liszt and Wagner, although his own compositions were generally within a conventional classical tradition. He was a scholar of musical history, and remained committed to the structures worked out by earlier French composers. This brought him into conflict in his later years with composers of the impressionist and expressionist schools of music; although there were neoclassical elements in his music, foreshadowing works by Stravinsky and Les Six, he was often regarded as a reactionary in the decades around the time of his death.</div><div><br /></div><div>Saint-Saëns held only one teaching post, at the École de Musique Classique et Religieuse in Paris, and remained there for less than five years. It was nevertheless important in the development of French music: his students included Gabriel Fauré, among whose own later pupils was Maurice Ravel. Both of them were strongly influenced by Saint-Saëns, whom they revered as a genius.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEix5HjHzZW5Mx3ztoFaxcmi0ZsDFknc1l8D0ezbtRkGgCweqoO7ExJGvsDxcTrYnYOSeorCmisVZ1rMSR8r-ZttoiWOoNZAdlGXeuQ8WGTLqYrnaVAJUUtvforKJCGfxnpjceE5AVG3VgV7Cqy2Tcs6IcHU0LxOaUxkJWCeata8t7B-GbVnBZ41FNt6WuKb" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="842" data-original-width="500" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEix5HjHzZW5Mx3ztoFaxcmi0ZsDFknc1l8D0ezbtRkGgCweqoO7ExJGvsDxcTrYnYOSeorCmisVZ1rMSR8r-ZttoiWOoNZAdlGXeuQ8WGTLqYrnaVAJUUtvforKJCGfxnpjceE5AVG3VgV7Cqy2Tcs6IcHU0LxOaUxkJWCeata8t7B-GbVnBZ41FNt6WuKb" width="143" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Taken from Wikipedia</div><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div>Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-66526998576792988772023-09-17T18:16:00.008+01:002023-09-18T10:43:59.567+01:00Sunday 17th September 2023 Trinity 15<div><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Benedictus in C C V Stanford</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><div>The Benedictus was composed in 1909 as part of Stanford's Morning and Evening Service together with the Office of Holy Communion Op 115. Stanford was given the choice to hear one of his services sung at Matins at York Minster in 1923 when he was a guest of the organist, Edward . "He chose the one in C", Bairstow recalled, "for he said he had never heard it!"</div><div><br style="background-color: #3bc572;" /></div></div><div><div><div><div>Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) thought to be one of our great British composers was actually Irish, born in Dublin, although educated at The University of Cambridge and then studied music in Leipzig and Berlin.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Whilst an undergraduate, he was appointed organist of Trinity College, Cambridge and was one of the founding professors of the Royal College of Music, where he taught composition for the rest of his life. He was also Professor of Music at Cambridge. His pupils included Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams whose fame went on to surpass his own.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>He is best remembered for his sacred choral compositions for church performance in the Anglican tradition. Along with Hubert Parry and Alexander Mackenzie, he was thought responsible for the renaissance of music in the British Isles.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5srshM0C5t6MDYTyU8k4Buc-u-X5Jw4xVEvXTTCHpYKR9BQPEeLP9oj3OyUe0CRD5iJaEJcFX-eWqxEClCte0l5JDG0uSnmXG3nkCe4pNpC55Z4xDjknX3aWqqgh3BFVc8LTi9HWpscdu/" style="color: #3d74a5; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="110" data-original-width="110" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5srshM0C5t6MDYTyU8k4Buc-u-X5Jw4xVEvXTTCHpYKR9BQPEeLP9oj3OyUe0CRD5iJaEJcFX-eWqxEClCte0l5JDG0uSnmXG3nkCe4pNpC55Z4xDjknX3aWqqgh3BFVc8LTi9HWpscdu/" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="240" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Charles Villiers Stanford from Wikipedia</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br style="background-color: #3bc572; color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /></div></div></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #646464;"><b>"Turn thy face from my sins" by Thomas Attwood (1765 - 1838) based on Psalm 51 vv 9-11.</b></span></p><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464;">Attwood was born in London, the son of a musician in the royal band. He became a chorister in the Chapel Royal by the age of nine. He was sent abroad to study at the expense of the Prince of Wales (later George IV) who was impressed by his skill at the harpsichord. He was a favourite pupil of Mozart. He returned to London in 1787.</span><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464;"></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464;">In 1796 he was made organist of St Paul's and the same year composer of the Chapel Royal. For George IV's coronation he wrote the anthem "I was glad".</span><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464;"><br /></span></span><p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #646464;">Much of his work is forgotten, only a few anthems regularly performed including "Turn thy face from my sins".</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-fkHYiJxDkkODR0nehNOotHtzX_9A1KMkmzp8lbpU-Vp7jH8nwKIS8JbUTdcAr1WPluJLatrNhq3Z6WH-AO8Kpyh3-eh6dZtnklVzSz83NIIb-TgnmvKpn45CYLvmqEgtsmY0Kok5FPamqVtBOa6xus8RjRS8_knLpbz9REW7NQeBXmLht1n__x6scN_r/s343/Thomas%20Attwood.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="273" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-fkHYiJxDkkODR0nehNOotHtzX_9A1KMkmzp8lbpU-Vp7jH8nwKIS8JbUTdcAr1WPluJLatrNhq3Z6WH-AO8Kpyh3-eh6dZtnklVzSz83NIIb-TgnmvKpn45CYLvmqEgtsmY0Kok5FPamqVtBOa6xus8RjRS8_knLpbz9REW7NQeBXmLht1n__x6scN_r/s320/Thomas%20Attwood.PNG" width="255" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Taken from Wikipedia</div><p></p><p><b><span style="color: white;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></b></div><b><span style="color: white;"><br /><br /></span></b><p></p><p><b><span style="color: white;">e from thy sins Thomas Attwood (1765-1838)</span></b></p><div><span style="background-color: white; color: white;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;">Attwood was born in London, the son of a musician in the royal band. He became a chorister in the Chapel Royal by the age of nine. He was sent abroad to study at the expense of the Prince of Wales (later George IV) who was impressed by his skill at the harpsichord. He was a favourite pupil of Mozart. He returned to London in 1787.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;"></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;">In 1796 he was made organist of St Paul's and the same year composer of the Chapel Royal. For George IV's coronation he wrote the anthem "I was glad".</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;"></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;">Much of his work is forgotten, only a few anthems regularly performed including "Turn thy face from my sin</span></span></div>Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-47793675543047803082023-09-17T18:14:00.002+01:002023-09-17T18:14:23.957+01:00Sunday 10th September 2023 St Mary our Lady Patronal Festival<p> <b>Ave Maria Opus 67, No 2 Gabriel Fauré</b></p><div><br /></div><div>This is a setting of "Hail Mary, full of grace" by Gabriel Fauré. It is written for boys or female voices with organ or piano. It is sung in unison, with a lot of dynamic change to emphasise the words, but mostly piano or softly. It is also sung at a gentle pace reflecting that this piece is a musical prayer.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><div>Gabriel Urbain Fauré 12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers. Among his best-known works are his Pavane, Requiem, Sicilienne, nocturnes for piano and the songs "Après un rêve" and "Clair de lune". Although his best-known and most accessible compositions are generally his earlier ones, Fauré composed many of his most highly regarded works in his later years, in a more harmonically and melodically complex style.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fauré was born into a cultured but not especially musical family. His talent became clear when he was a small boy. At the age of nine, he was sent to the Ecole Niedermeyer music college in Paris, where he was trained to be a church organist and choirmaster. Among his teachers was Camille Saint-Saëns, who became a lifelong friend. After graduating from the college in 1865, Fauré earned a modest living as an organist and teacher, leaving him little time for composition. When he became successful in his middle age, holding the important posts of organist of the Église de la Madeleine and director of the Paris Conservatoire, he still lacked time for composing; he retreated to the countryside in the summer holidays to concentrate on composition. By his last years, Fauré was recognised in France as the leading French composer of his day. An unprecedented national musical tribute was held for him in Paris in 1922, headed by the president of the French Republic. Outside France, Fauré's music took decades to become widely accepted, except in Britain, where he had many admirers during his lifetime.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fauré's music has been described as linking the end of Romanticism with the modernism of the second quarter of the 20th century. When he was born, Chopin was still composing, and by the time of Fauré's death, jazz and the atonal music of the Second Viennese School were being heard. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, which describes him as the most advanced composer of his generation in France, notes that his harmonic and melodic innovations influenced the teaching of harmony for later generations. During the last twenty years of his life, he suffered from increasing deafness. In contrast with the charm of his earlier music, his works from this period are sometimes elusive and withdrawn in character, and at other times turbulent and impassioned.</div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Taken from Wikipedia</div></div>Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868330486786694375.post-17646409433316973652023-09-03T14:09:00.002+01:002023-09-03T14:11:24.284+01:00Sunday 3rd September 2023 Trinity 13<p>Welcome back to the choir who return after their summer break. The senior choir was joined by the junior choir as it is the family service today.</p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #646464;">Ave Verum Corpus W A Mozart (K618)</b></p><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464;">Ave Verum Corpus (Hail, true body) is a setting of the Latin Hymn, in D major. It was written for Anton Stoll, a friend and church musician of St Stephen, Baden.</span><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464;">It was composed in 1791 whilst visiting his wife Constanze who was pregnant with their 6th child and staying at the spa Baden bei Wien. It was composed for the feast of Corpus Christi. Mozart's manuscript has only "Sotto voce" marked at the beginning with no other markings.</span><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464;">Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)</span><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464;">Mozart was a child prodigy competent on keyboard and violin. He began composing at the age of five. He performed around Europe for royalty. At the age of 17 he was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court but was restless and travelled looking for a better position. Whilst visiting Vienna he was dismissed from his position in Salzburg. He remained in Vienna, where he gained fame but no financial security.</span><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #646464;">He composed more than 600 works, many acknowledged as the finest in symphonies, concertante, operatic, chamber and choral music. He remains one of the best loved classical composers, whose work influenced many composers. Joseph Haydn said of Mozart "Posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years."</span><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: #646464; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><img alt="" class="mw-mmv-final-image jpg mw-mmv-dialog-is-open" crossorigin="anonymous" height="320" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Croce-Mozart-Detail.jpg" style="border: 0px none rgb(0, 0, 0); display: block; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px; vertical-align: middle;" width="246" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px;"><span style="background-color: white;">W A Mozart from Wikipedia<br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div>Dr Plattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342471949776429914noreply@blogger.com0