Does anyone know this?
  • canadashcanadash
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    I found it on youtube and it is an "Anglo-Catholic" parish in Toronto. I could email them, but generally I find most of what I need here! This is quite stunning:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=H1qMGFpFEmU#at=45


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  • SkirpRSkirpR
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    Seems like the "other" Pange Lingua. Most of us are familiar with Aquinas' as sung on Holy Thursday during the Transfer of the Blessed Sacrament, but there is one attributed to Venantius Fortunatus which speaks of the Cross.

    http://www.preces-latinae.org/thesaurus/Hymni/PangeF.html
  • SkirpRSkirpR
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    Duh! you probably meant the polyphony... that I don't know.
  • canadashcanadash
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    Yes, the polyphony... :) I though it was dramatic after the chant!
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    St. Mary Magdelene's in Toronto is the parish of the composer Healey Willan, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was his music. I've found a few references to a piece by him based on or incorporating Pange Lingua, but I can't find enough detail or a score to confirm if this is it.

    You could try contacting the parish.
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  • Simon
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    Confirm Adam Wood's comment above. It does sound like Willan. Sang a lot of his masses and Mag Nuncs at a neighboring high Anglican Church (St. Thomas) back in the 1970s.
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  • ScottKChicago
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    It's Healey Willan's setting of the hymn Faithful Cross (HWC 454). From the CD notes for Healey Willan: Tenebrae Responsaries and Missae Breves:

    Willan's setting of the hymn is used during the veneration of the Cross on Good Friday. He employs the ancient technique of alternatim, which may have developed from the antiphonal and responsorial singing of the psalms in the early Western Church. The schola (Ritual Choir) sings the chant of Fortunatus's Pange, lingua, gloriosi proelium certaminis, and the polyphonic choir (Gallery Choir) alternates after every stanza with all or part of Willan's setting of the stanza Crux fidelis (Faithful Cross) in a responsorial manner.

    Faithful Cross
    with the hymn Pange, lingua, gloriosi proelium certaminis, Mechlin melody
    Latin, Bishop Venantius Fortunatus, 530-609; tr. Percy Dearmer, 1867-1936, and John Mason Neale, 1818-1866

    CD: Virgin Classics 7243 5 45260 2 2
    The Choirs of the Church of St Mary Magdalene, Toronto
    Robert Hunter Bell, director
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  • canadashcanadash
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    Thanks. I was blessed to hear their choirs last spring. The church has wonderful acoustics and choirs. I may just contact the church.
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  • canadashcanadash
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    Well, I did contact the parish and this was the response....



    Thank your or your inquiry.

    Unfortunately, this piece of music has not been published and exists as only a tattered, faded scrap.

    Regards

    mhg
    (Marian Horne Greenwood)
    SMM Parish Administrator


    :( Too bad.
  • chonakchonak
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    Hey, tattered, faded scraps are our speciality!
  • canadashcanadash
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    Would you like to contact the church? They are in a bit of flux since their choir director of many years has left. I don't know who they have there now. Notice the dm didn't write back,it was a church administrator.
  • Paul_D
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    Andrew Adair has just been appointed Director of Music of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto, effective 1 July 2013. You might try addressing your inquiry to him directly. Seems like a nice gent.

    Willian's musical estate was legally entrusted to the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius in Chicago, Illinois. Father Scott Haynes might be able to help you concerning unpublished material. More info here: http://www.canons-regular.org/go/healeywillansociety/
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  • canadashcanadash
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    Thanks Paul. I may do that. It will be an adventure for me!
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