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  • It is disappointing that they did not use the Sir David Willcocks settings on verse 3 of this hymn for "Sing Choirs of Angels" as well as for the organ accompaniment on the last stanza. You would expect an Episcopal Cathedral of any caliber to follow in this tradition! I am the Director of Music at a smaller program-size church and we always use the traditional Willcocks setting.

  • @Daniel21384 I am not a musician, just a music lover but I do know about the Willcocks descant and I agree with you. Love when the sopranos rise above the hymn. Sorry for my lack of adroitness in explaining but like i said, i'm not a musician.. But u probably know what i mean. I grew up listening to that descant in my church our organist was so good!! Didnt Willcocks also arrange descants for The 1st Nowell & Hark the Herald angels sing? Search "sing choirs of angels" here for that descant

  • @Daniel21384 Unfortunately, "anything goes" at an Episcopal church. As long as it is pretty and glitzy, it is fine.

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  • Is it normal for the man holding the thurible to swing it like that? (at 3:29)

  • @96organist... Normal is a relative word... There is a manual for acolytes that discourages what they call "theatrical" swings of the thurible. I actually serve as thurifer on some Sundays at my parish. I do not do full circles with the thurible... but I have been known to swing it with "feeling." This gentleman seems to like the "wheelie" as we call it while the 2nd thurifer is a lot more understated with his swings. I guess its personal preference and parish preference.

  • @96organist Hi, I have been a thurifer on NUMEROUS occasions and at my first parish the entire congregation loved it when I would swing in 360's and Chirstmas & Easter I would do what is call "Queen Anne's" were you swing it up one sode of your body and down the other side. One lady just watch me and tell me later it gave her chills and she said that was the Holy Spirit! So it just depnds on your parish and your priest.

  • @Operaman41

    I think I've seen that style of swinging...

    Didn't know it was called the Queen Anne...

    If you have video of that, please post

    I'd like to watch

  • @njn3 THey are also called figure 8's because of the criss crossing.

  • @Operaman41 thanks for that.. i searched for it and saw an example... We wouldn't do the Queen Anne or the figure 8 at my church... someone might get killed

  • My dear friend Mark, I think this was the temp electronic organ, because Mike Quimby was not nearly done with the Org at this time?? Do you know? Your Friend, David L.

  • No, this is the restored Aeolian-Skinner Op. 150A - Mike Quimby had just finished installing the restored organ a month before Christmas 2008....The new Quimby console is visible in this video - the temporary Allen organ console was always positioned on the Crossing floor, near the North Choir steps.

  • Thank you for reply, Time Flys! I knew the organ sounded greater than even a good digital. Mike lives twenty miles from me in the small town of Warrensburg, MO -- I was delighted when he was chosen to re-build the org. You you have heard it before and now --What do you think of the re-build? David

  • I have been associated with the Cathedral since 1976, and I have NEVER heard this organ sound better. Besides the organ rebuild, the organ chambers have been properly waterproofed and acoustically sealed/soundproofed, and the Choir ceiling and 1st Nave bays have been acoustically sealed to allow clearer sound propogation throughout the interior - the organ and choral music sound much clearer than before the 2001 fire. So small changes make a HUGE difference!

  • @livzdave I've seen your videos.. Well done.. we've been at some of the same services.. Just sitting in different areas.. The organ does sound great.. Easily one of my favorite reasons for going. I hope to be at the Cathedral this year for Midnight Mass but I don't know if it will happen because my uncle is no longer a deacon there. Also I'm working late that night and will have to get there late so seating might be a problem. If my uncle were still there I'd have a seat saved for me. Oh well

  • Good but the procession is moving far too fast...

  • Man o man!!  Thanks sooo much for posting this and the other two. Most enjoyable indeed.

  • I liked it, I thought the fanfare was a little confusing though. The man in the pew probably wouldn't be totally sure of when to come in.

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