The Artsy Honker – Page 33 – Adventures in faithful musicianship

Candlemas

Byartsyhonker February 2, 2011 0 Comments

By Window: workshop of Franz Borgias Mayer (1848–1926); Photo: Wojciech Dittwald (my own photo) , via Wikimedia CommonsWhen to the temple Mary went,And brought the Holy Child,Him did the aged Simeon see,As it had been revealed.He took up Jesus in his armsAnd blessing God he said:In peace I now depart, my Saviour having seen,The Hope of Israel, the Light of men.Help now thy servants, gracious...

Bucket Bass at London Hackspace

Byartsyhonker February 1, 2011 0 Comments

Tuesday night after teaching I wended my weary way to London Hackspace for their social night. I recently joined, since I always have a few more making-random-stuff projects than is good for me and not quite enough time and space to work on them; the idea is that if I can get there regularly enough, I might get on with some of them. I was locking up my bicycle and saw someone else arrive with...

Muse musings

Byartsyhonker January 31, 2011 0 Comments

I seem to composing better for people and occasions than for competitions. Maybe I haven't entered enough competitions to gather accurate data from which to draw such a conclusion. However, despite putting a lot of work into it, I wasn't really happy with my entry for the St Paul's competition in June. The last few weeks I've had in mind the King James Bible Composition Awards, which I scrape in...

“Go quietly to bed”

Byartsyhonker January 30, 2011 0 Comments

Sunday evening, I had the privilege of singing Compline with the choir at St Mary's Addington. I started attending services in the parish once in a while in order to visit a friend of mine who is Curate there, but the community -- and especially the choir -- has become a real resource for me. As an organist working in a C of E church but who doesn't come from an Anglican background it's been...

Organists Online birthday celebration

Byartsyhonker January 29, 2011 0 Comments

Saturday afternoon I attended the Organists Online ten-year anniversary event, an Open House at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church.It was good to meet other organists; we tend to get quite wrapped up in our own work, being all busy at around the same times on Sunday mornings, and if I didn't go out of my way to speak to some in other parishes I could easily not meet any at all.The programme...

EVENSONG AS HARDY KNEW IT

Byartsyhonker January 29, 2011 0 Comments

In the final year of my degree I decided I needed to do more singing, and one thing led to another...I am delighted that we'll be singing and playing Evensong at a church not too far from where I live! It makes carrying the serpent much easier. Playing from the gallery is a treat, too; many galleries have had so many bits of pipe organ added that we can't get into them. EVENSONG AS HARDY KNEW IT...

A multiplicity of translations

Byartsyhonker January 22, 2011 0 Comments

Over at the Liturgy blog, Rev Bosco Peters has a series of posts on the new Revised Grail Psalter. In the first post he links to the full text of the psalter, and laments the multiplicity of translations, though he does say "An English psalter for worship needs to balance accuracy on the one hand with rhythm for proclaiming, chanting, and singing on the other." I don't have the book he recommends...

New Year

Byartsyhonker January 2, 2011 0 Comments

Christmas has come (though it isn't gone yet -- not until Epiphany), the various services at church have gone well, my students are still on break, and so I am going away for a few days.I'm really, really looking forward to it. When I come back the "new" year must begin in earnest, nose back to the grindstone with teaching and rehearsals and practising and oh, some forms to fill out and send off...

First Fifteen music meme

Byartsyhonker November 13, 2010 0 Comments

I wasn't tagged by Phil Ritchie or anyone else, but thought I'd do this anyway...1) Turn on your MP3 player or music player on your computer.2) Go to SHUFFLE songs mode.3) Write down the first 15 songs that come up–song title and artist–NO editing/cheating, please.Oh, very well then. 1) Adams: Short Ride In A Fast Machine (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra)2) Gregorian chat: Mass VIII - Ite...