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Tuesday 19 August 2008

THE FIRST SUNDAY AFTER TUNING

The latest offering to the (rather meagre) music list is from Mr Skygge. Jolly well done!

Celebrating that Holy Day when Reeds and other Temperamental Ranks are actually bearable. Also known as Drought Sunday
Voluntary: Frescobaldi: Toccata Nona.
Psalm 95 (Thomas Attwood Walmisley)
Hymns: "Love Has Come Again" (Crum/Noel nouvelet); "Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee" (Beethoven/Hymn to Joy); "There's A Wideness in God's Mercy" (Calvin Hampton/St. Helena)
Anthem: "Thee, God..." (Ned Rorem--"Three Motets on Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins")Voluntary: "Voluntary in D Minor, op. 5, no. 8" (Stanley).
Of course, when the inevitable happens and the humidity explodes into rain, last-minute changes may be needed:
Hymn: "Low He Comes With Clouds Descending" (Charles Wesley)
Psalm: Psalm 65 (Walmisley)
Anthem: "Drop, Drop, Slow Tears" (Leighton).