Christian, music-lover, Classicist, retired Academic Support Librarian @Warwickuni. Encephalitis has hurt my family.
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Thanks to everyone for your kind responses to my posts, this week especially but at other times too. This is such a supportive community, and you’re much appreciated.
Good morning to Tom McKinney and @BBCRadio3 Breakfasters on a calm autumnal morning. Wishing everyone a good weekend. My husband’s cold is going, and mine was in full flow yesterday but may be improving, so not much planned here.
Lovely tribute to Esther Rantzen on @BBCRadio3 #InTune this evening, ending with the very appropriate Schindler’s List theme, one of her #DesertIslandDiscs choices. Thanks, @PetrocTrelawny.
Just wondering if anyone’s suggested Solomon as a name for Baby (even though not born on Monday). #The Archers
Greetings to @PetrocTrelawny and @BBCRadio3 #InTuners. Great start today from Grieg & Joby Talbot. Now enjoying Bach and very much looking forward to hearing from Ben Goldscheider and @Richard_Uttley , bringing back good memories of Leamington Music concerts.
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BBC Radio 3's Choral Evensong programme will celebrate its 100th anniversary with a special broadcast live from the Abbey on Wednesday 7 October.
The service will be sung by @WAbbeyChoir, conducted by Organist & Master of the Choristers Andrew Nethsingha. It will include music by Howells and Parry, whose repertoire has featured prominently over the last 100 years, together with the world premier of an introit composed especially for the occasion by Kerensa Briggs.
Apart from a short break in 1970, Choral Evensong has been broadcast every week since its very first transmission. That service was live on the National Programme from Westminster Abbey on Thursday 7 October 1926.
Even during the war years Choral Evensong maintained its position in the schedules - although for two years from 1940 to 1942 the venues were not revealed by Radio Times and the programme was listed simply as coming from 'a Public School Chapel' or 'a Western or Northern Cathedral'. Over 80 different cathedrals, churches and chapels have since been visited.
Listeners in the UK can hear Wednesday's service live on Radio 3 or on demand for 30 days on BBC Sounds. It will also be repeated on Radio 3 at 6pm (BST) on Sunday 11 October. Find out more: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m003215…
ALT An elevated, wide-angle shot captures Evensong at Westminster Abbey, focusing on the choir stalls lining the central aisle. The aisle features a prominent black-and-white checkered floor leading to the distant, ornate golden altar. On both sides, members of the choir, dressed in traditional red and white vestments, sit in wooden pews beneath high, intricately carved golden screens. Small, glowing red lamps are spaced along the pews in front of the singers. Congregants fill the remaining seats and stand in the background, facing inward. Tall Gothic stone pillars and pointed arches rise toward the vaulted ceiling, with natural light streaming in from stained glass windows on the right, illuminating the historic stone architecture.
Lovely tribute from Tom McKinney to Esther Rantzen on @BBCRadio3 Breakfast, and good to hear one of her favourite pieces of music, the Brahms Double Concerto. It brings to mind her positivity and determination.
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Good morning! We will be open 0720 - 1830 today. Prayer will be said at 0740 and 1745, with Holy Communion at 0800. Morning Prayer will also be available online: youtube.com/live/XbWycx-wPgg…
Good morning to Tom McKinney and @BBCRadio3 Breakfasters. Good start with Copland, Bach and now Borodin.
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Optimistic October - Day 1: Write down three things you can look forward to this month actionforhappiness.org/optim… #OptimisticOctober
RIP Dame Esther Rantzen, and condolences to all those who knew and will miss her. Gratitude for all she achieved - someone who really did make a difference.
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Life is better when we find something to look forward to. Join us for Optimistic October and discover ways to stay hopeful, even in uncertain times 🌈 actionforhappiness.org/optim… #OptimisticOctober
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Join us for the Choral Eucharist on this Sunday at 1100 in the cathedral and online as we celebrate and give thanks to Cathedral Music Trust for their generous grant to fund the position of Assistant Director of Music over the next two years.
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September has flown by and it's the final day to get your walking boots on and take part in the #MilesForTheMorrab community walking challenge. No time for a walk today (or is the weather deterring you)? You can still donate to our #Crowdfunder campaign:
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Greetings. Sunny, blue-sky day, we’ve been out to lunch, done some shopping and are now enjoying @PetrocTrelawny’s music choices and conversations on @BBCRadio3 #InTune.
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We will be open 0720 - 1830 today. Prayer will be said at 0740, with Holy Communion at 0800, and Holy Communion in Traditional Language at 1310 and Shorter Choral Evensong at 1745. Morning Prayer will also be available online: youtube.com/live/sccD612n_5c…
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Self Care September - Day 30: Remind yourself that you are enough, just as you are actionforhappiness.org/self-… #SelfCareSeptember
Good morning to Tom McKinney and @BBCRadio3 Breakfasters. Not much sign of dawn here yet but it’s very mild again. Enjoying Swedish composer Dag Wiren’s Romantic Suite and thinking his music deserves to be heard more often.
Tears at the sheer beauty and awe at the power of Brahms’ German Requiem on @BBCRadio3 this evening, and good memories of singing in it. Thanks to @ForrestMark for his presentation.