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  • NihilNominisNihilNominis
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    Here are the recordings from the combined choirs (Caecilian Choir, Latin Mass Choir, HS Schola) of St. Mary's, Sleepy Eye, at a Service of Sacred Music for Lent on Sunday afternoon. About 50-60 voices in all (I didn't take attendance). Taken on an iPad in front, so you can hear the congregation very strongly on the hymns. Highlights for me were the Adoramus Te, Christe, Allegri's Adoremus, Lift High the Cross, and Dear Lord and Father of Mankind.

    Neither of the Rheinberger pieces turned out as well as they justly should have, given how they went in rehearsal.

    Enjoy!

    https://soundcloud.com/seanconnolly/sets/lenten-service-of-sacred-music-2017-st-marys-sleepy-eye-mn
    Thanked by 3CHGiffen jefe eft94530
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,368
    Impressed.
    Nice choirs.
    Nice congregation.
    Nice organ (who is builder? How many ranks? How old? Etc.?)
    Thanked by 1NihilNominis
  • NihilNominisNihilNominis
    Posts: 986
    The organ has become my pride and joy. It's been built/rebuilt 3 times:

    1907 Bernard Schaefer of Wisconsin. Originally two divisions. Most of the flues, principals, strings &c. from that period.

    1947 Wicks redid the action (had been tubular, became electric), put all the pipes into two chambers over three divisions (wrecking a remarkable case in the process) and added the reeds (an English Horn, a Trumpet, and a Clarinet [this one is actually very, very nice], all extended -- an Oboe Gamba served the purpose of reed on the 1907 build).

    2011 restored and redone by the Moe Pipe Organ Company of Wadena, Minn. Completely redid the action on the console, did some major repair work. Don't know how much voicing was involved (wasn't here at the time).

    In short, beautifully up-to-date electronics, 150 memory levels, 12 generals, 6 divisionals (could use 8 and would kill for a Gt/Ped Combination Coupler, however), nice action, with a vintage set of ivories and a rich Romantic tonal palette that you can't beat. Wish the reeds were as old as the rest of the pipes.
    Thanked by 2M. Jackson Osborn CHGiffen
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,368
    ...an Oboe Gamba served...

    Now that must have been an interesting b-reed!
    Thanked by 2CHGiffen NihilNominis
  • NihilNominisNihilNominis
    Posts: 986
    Actually, In the spirit of "waste not, want not," it is still there, on the Swell. It does a fairly passable job. As I do not have an Oboe still, if I am in dire need it does the trick.
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
  • jefe
    Posts: 200
    Good job here. This is so spiritually authentic, showing what a good organist, organ, choir director and choir can do to enhance the season. Oh, to have that good an acoustic. By contrast, soundwise, since we use no accompaniment save an occasional hand bell, here is Renaissance Man's, Lent 3, Compline recording of last Sunday.
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/somfgfr3ahel8z3/20170319.mp3
    Seven men chanted the Office: 2 countertenors; 2 tenors, 1 baritone, 2 basses. This was our one rehearsal attempt at a very lean Lenten Office with part one of The Lamentations of Jeremiah of T. Tallis being the highlight. I might as well include the big 5 music:
    jefe
    3O Christ, you are both light and day, revised plainsong - Full Score.pdf
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    7Nunc dimittis, mode II in emin.with antiphon - Full Score.pdf
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    11Lamentations of Jeremiah Tallis ATTBB - Full Score.pdf
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    4Psalm 95 plainsong Tone II.1 - Full Score.pdf
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    Jesu dulcedo cordium3_1 - Full Score.pdf
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    Thanked by 1NihilNominis
  • NihilNominisNihilNominis
    Posts: 986
    Thanks for the share! Tight little group there-- come use our acoustic anytime!
    Thanked by 1jefe
  • jefe
    Posts: 200
    In my forward on a piece about starting and running the Office of Compline, I opined that the most important thing to get right was not the quality of the singers nor due diligence of the leader but rather the reverberant, mystical sound of the
    Space; the Venue; the Hall; the Box; the Nave, the Quire; the Cathedral; the Chapel.
    Where are you located, again? 8<)
  • NihilNominisNihilNominis
    Posts: 986
    Sleepy Eye, Minnesota. We'd love to have Compline.
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