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posted by [personal profile] emperor at 11:13pm on 18/03/2005
Stress, that is. Canon Sweet is applying the thumscrews-of-doom. Longstowe is a parish Selwyn is slightly responsible for, and all of their organists are elsewhere on Easter Sunday, so they want me to play. I've not been very near an organ in ages, and I'm away for a fair chunk of the time between now and then. I wonder if pleading to Girton's priest will mean they'll let me practice...

Canon Sweet does know I was never very good, and that I've not played in years, so they must be pretty desperate...

They apparantly will take any hymns I like, from A+M (NS). Presumably that would be 79 (Jesus Christ is Risen Today), 428 (Thine be the glory), 75 (The Day of Resurrection) and maybe 78 (The strife is o'er). I quite like 82 (Jesus lives! Thy terrors now) as well, but they presumably don't want that many hymns...

Presumably they'll also want a voluntary (I'm not sure I have any suitably festive ones). What else are they likely to spring on me, I wonder?
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posted by [identity profile] mtbc100.livejournal.com at 02:25am on 19/03/2005
Um, think of it as an opportunity? It's indeed an excuse to get what time you can to practice, and maybe it's not too bad to keep a finger in the organ-playing pie.

Okay, yes, maybe it's doom on a stick. A big stick, in this case.
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posted by [identity profile] marnanel.livejournal.com at 02:26am on 19/03/2005
So what's 82?
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posted by [personal profile] emperor at 09:07am on 19/03/2005
Jesus lives! Thy terrors now...

(I've edited the post to this effect).
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posted by [identity profile] sashajwolf.livejournal.com at 07:58am on 19/03/2005
John Sweet got made a Canon? He was my supervisor for textual criticism in my third year. Lovely man. His lectures were punctuated by moments of apparent reverie, after which he would continue his sentence where he left off. We used to speculate that he was having angelic visions.
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posted by [personal profile] emperor at 09:07am on 19/03/2005
Yes; I don't recall when, though.
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posted by [identity profile] meirion.livejournal.com at 08:33am on 19/03/2005
i shall never be able to sing "The strife is o'er" again (or indeed even think about it) without bursting into fits of giggles and being reminded of [livejournal.com profile] del2's retirement party ....

-m-
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posted by [identity profile] sheffers.livejournal.com at 01:23pm on 19/03/2005
The idea of Jon Sweet aplying thumbscrews is so hideously incongruous I don't even want to consider it.
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posted by [identity profile] teleute.livejournal.com at 04:24pm on 19/03/2005
NO!!! No more 79!! No!! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

I'm singing with choir again today. We get trumpets with that, which is actually kind of cool, but if I never sing it again in my life, it still might be too soon.

OK, I was actually going to post about voluntaries: our organist has a really cool variations on Now the Green Blade Riseth which seems pretty easy to play, but each time you change the stops so it sounds really funky (I guess a lot of organ variations do this). And the nice thing about a theme and variations is that you can just practice up some of them and skip the ones that are too hard :-)

Or, find someone that wants to sing solo, and play some other Eastery hymns with them singing solo - I've heard that done at our cathedral (not for Easter, admittedly, but it's been done). Then the pressure is off you, because you just become an accomapanist.

*hugs* have fun
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posted by [identity profile] teleute.livejournal.com at 04:25pm on 19/03/2005
I meant this Easter. Not specifically today. Although I might practice my psalms for the vigil. Did you know I cant occasionally now?
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posted by [identity profile] senji.livejournal.com at 10:40pm on 20/03/2005
It's a good thing I don't believe in not saying the A-word, since it comes straight to mind when I read the first line of 79...
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