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posted by [identity profile] arnhem.livejournal.com at 06:45pm on 10/07/2005
Given the conditions you were operating under (particularly re practicing), I thought you played excellently.

FWIW, I really enjoyed your pre-service music and the Purcell.

I think you were not at all helped in the hymns by the fact that there was no "proper" choir; I think this is usual in weddings, and I think it makes the organist's task even more difficult.
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posted by [identity profile] megamole.livejournal.com at 08:23pm on 10/07/2005
I tried to give a lead - however, standing next to Matthew meant that I was 0.5 sec ahead of people down in the chapel, so it was quite tough.
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posted by [identity profile] arnhem.livejournal.com at 08:48pm on 10/07/2005
Argh; no criticism was intended ("proper" was, when writing that, a matter of numbers rather than quality, in my mind!). I'd have thought that "quite tough" was understating the challenge a bit.
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posted by [identity profile] meirion.livejournal.com at 11:37pm on 10/07/2005
i heard you and was following your lead ;-) unfortunately no-one else in the body of the chapel seemed to be :-(

-m-
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posted by [personal profile] rmc28 at 02:35pm on 21/07/2005
Matthew: who was rude to you? Can I kill them, or at least make certain things clear? *grr*

We wanted *you* to play, and we enjoyed it. It meant a lot that we had a friend playing, not a disinterested professional.

As for the absence of choir, we were out of Term so the Chapel choir wasn't available and would have been quite expensive anyway so I'm not sure we'd have booked them. Thus the music in the service sheets, for the musically competent among the congregation, of whom we knew there would be a lot, and who we hoped would carry things.
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posted by [identity profile] arnhem.livejournal.com at 03:05pm on 21/07/2005
I don't think I've ever been to a wedding where there was a booked choir.

[ I'm now regretting the use of the phrase "not at all helped" in my reply which sounds critical (of something, not quite sure what!); I think I was trying to convey my sense of "goodness, I'd have been scared to do that", but not using the right words ]
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