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Adventures in hymn selection
In the Common Worship lectionary there are two options for Eastertide. One uses an Old Testament reading, a reading from Acts, and a Gospel reading each week. The other uses an epistle instead of the...
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Big Hymn Sing 2011
This Saturday there will be a Big Hymn Sing at 1pm at St Andrew’s Leytonstone. The congregation have sponsored about 30 hymns and I will add some more that I think are worth singing, for a total of...
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Dances, not dirges
On Saturday I had the pleasure of conducting the <a href=”http://www.lgq.org.uk”>London Gallery Quire</a>, not once but twice. We started with a service of Mattins at St John’s, Fulham,...
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How to introduce new music in churches
I wrote this as a comment elsewhere, and thought it perhaps worth reproducing: You can get congregations to sing new music, but it takes a bit of work and cooperation from your organist/music...
View ArticleSteeeeeeeeeeam
In trying to put together bits of organ fundraising yesterday I happened upon our organ technician’s website, and found the previous lot of repairs are listed as a case study. As part of this contract,...
View ArticleA call for words…
So, I wrote some words last night, rather too many in fact, about my interpretation of various Church of England stuff. That post has received over three hundred hits, more than all my posts on organ...
View ArticleSo why does a poor East London church need a pipe organ, anyway?
At St Andrew’s Leytonstone we’re hosting a hymnathon this weekend, to raise money for the repair of our pipe organ. Fundraising is going well, but there have been some questions. In this time of...
View Article#AcWriMo for a church musician
I’m not doing a PhD (yet), but over at PhD2Published it’s that time of year again. AcWriMo is a sort of motivational gimmick whereby a group of people decide that in November they’re going to get a lot...
View ArticleThose Naughty Organists
I read with some bemusement an article in the Telegraph. Beware the wrath of the church organist, it warns, and goes on to list various musical infelicities. Slipping unexpected tunes into music is...
View ArticleAdvent — Christina Rosetti
We’re well into December and there is so much going on that is very focused on Christmas; yet this is still Advent, a season of preparation. Advent is my SATB setting of Christina Rosetti’s poem by the...
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