Who and Where? - Local Choral Workshops This Summer -
  • M. Jackson Osborn
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    We all know of the great convergence of national and international music in Houston this summer, what with the American Guild of Organists and the National Pastoral Musicians having their conventions here in June and July.

    There must, though, be a number of more local and less well known and endowed opportunities at the local level.

    Sharing them here should be encouraging and enlightening to all.
    A variant on the 'Great Situations' thread.

    I have just returned from the first evening of a four day workshop being held at Walsingham, which will climax with solemn evensong this Sunday at 4.00pm. This workshop is sponsored by Chorus Angelorum, Walsingham's resident semi-professional choir which offers evensong at various times throughout the year. It is distinct from Walsingham's Parish Choir - though our parish choirmaster and organist, Edmund Murray, is also the director of Chorus Anglelorum.
    The clinician is Dr Simon Carrington, of England, who is an internationally renowned choral clinician who grew up in the English cathedral choir culture. This evening there were about fifty participants. The theme of the workshop is '500 Years of English Cathedral Music'.

    Repertory for the workshop is -

    Introit - Emendemus in melius - - - William Byrd

    Preces and Responses - - - Richard Ayleward

    Office Hymn - Phos Hilaron - - - Plainchant, Mode III

    Psalm 34 - - - Chant, Sir David Willcocks

    Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: Collegium Regale - - - Herbert Howells

    The Suffrages - - - Richard Ayleward

    Anthems -
    'Blessed be the God and Father' - - - S.S. Wesley
    'Blessed City, Heavenly Salem' - - - Edward Bairstow
    Jehova quam multi sunt hostes mei - - - Henry Purcell
    Salvator Mundi - - - Thomas Tallis
    'My Beloved Spake' - - - Patrick Hadley
    The Strathclyde Motets: - - - James MacMillan
    1. Data est mihi
    2. Dominus dabit benignitatem

    Marian Antiphon - Salve Regina (a 5) - - - William Byrd

    We had our first session this evening and will continue Friday and Saturday all day and evening, and Sunday afternoon.

    Solemn evensong is at 4.00pm Sunday.

    All are welcome.

    If you live in the area, come and visit us.
    Reception following in the parish hall.
    Thanked by 3chonak CHGiffen Ally
  • BruceL
    Posts: 1,072
    Emendemus is one of my favorite pieces. It has to be some of Byrd's greatest text-painting and deployment of choral texture. It's become one of those "it wouldn't be Ash Wednesday" without it things!

    Anthems/motets are lovely, too. I'm glad the voice of the turtle is being heard in your land, although anywhere but Houston it would be too dry!
    Thanked by 2M. Jackson Osborn CHGiffen
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,415
    Next Sunday, the 19th, there will be another evensong at Walsingham. 4.00pm. All are welcome. This is an official pre-convention event for the AGO's convention the following week. Any of you who will be here for that may not want to miss this beautiful offering to the Most High. Too, if you are here early enough you can come to high mass at 11.15am.

    As for today's evensong     - it was glorious, in spite of a very grumpy thunderstorm we had the church roughly 3/4 full. During the pre-evensong rehearsal the lights went out, no organ. After about five minutes we all breathed easily when the electricity came back on - but, we were without air-conditioning, which in Houston is a not to be desired event, especially in choir habit inside a church. The workshop itself was an inspiring success. If any are ever wanting for a superb choral clinician, contact Dr Simon Carrington, who will be a professor at the University of Birmingham next fall. He carries both British and US citizenship.
  • matthewjmatthewj
    Posts: 2,700
    August 27, Diocese of Lincoln NE - Bartlett and Meloche
    http://www.lincolndiocese.org/news/diocesan-news/5335-diocese-to-host-clinic-on-sacred-music-aug-27
  • canadashcanadash
    Posts: 1,501
    http://www.gregorian.ca/wp/index.php/colloquium-2016/
    Thanked by 1Casavant Organist
  • BruceL
    Posts: 1,072
    There's also the wonderful Southeastern Sacred Music workshop on July 22-23 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you've never been, it's beautiful country: the Southern beginnings of the ridge-and-valley Appalachians, so it reminds me of my roots in West Virginia! The faculty will be very good, with some of us regional folks here as well as Dr. Jenny Donelson of CMAA/St. Joseph Seminary, Dunwoodie.

    As they say in these here parts, "Y'all come on".

    http://southeasternsacredmusic.com/
    Thanked by 2M. Jackson Osborn CCooze
  • JesJes
    Posts: 576
    Out of curiosity, what's going on after the colloquium? Anybody willing to take on a dinky die Aussie?
  • janetgorbitzjanetgorbitz
    Posts: 968
    Are you planning to stay in the St. Louis area long after the Colloquium, Jes?
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