Can you spot the Redwolf in this picture?

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:29 pm

Because she's a rebel, and a happy person.

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 6:14 pm

Cranberry wrote:I have a question. Why does that one lady have a black collar?

It's an academic hood. It's traditional, for certain high services, for people who have higher degrees to wear their hoods, if they have them. You can't see it in that picture, but the bulk of her hood is blue...she's a PhD in marine biology. If you look at the two people on either end of that row (the choir master and the blonde lady at the right end), they're wearing pink hoods...they both have masters degrees in music.

I only have a lowly BA in English, so I don't bother.

Good Anglican choral music is ethereal. Our repertoire is cathedral-style music...it's the kind of thing you'd hear at, say, Westminster Abbey or St. Paul's. In fact, one high point of our trip to England this past summer, for me at least, was Evensong at St. Paul's. If you can find a church that does Evensong, that can be a great first exposure to the kind of music we do.

We ultimately hope to have some sound samples up on the site, but bandwidth constraints will prevent them from being very long, I'm afraid. Sometime in the next year or so, we also plan to release a CD.

Redwolf

flanum · Post by **flanum** » Thu May 04, 2006 12:28 pm

See if you can spot the wolf in this pic....

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Thu May 04, 2006 12:34 pm

Speaking of Anglican singing, there was an Episcopal student group
who put on an evening Taizé Chant service near my college. I kept
wanting to attend,but they stopped before I had the chance. Does
anyone still do this sort of thing? Is it a Protestant thing outside of
France, or should I look for Catholic services, too?

djm · Post by **djm** » Thu May 04, 2006 1:36 pm

flanum wrote:See if you can spot the wolf in this pic....

There are seven wolves in the picture (not counting the sheepdog).

djm

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Fri May 05, 2006 8:13 am

fearfaoin wrote:Speaking of Anglican singing, there was an Episcopal student group
who put on an evening Taizé Chant service near my college. I kept
wanting to attend,but they stopped before I had the chance. Does
anyone still do this sort of thing? Is it a Protestant thing outside of
France, or should I look for Catholic services, too?

You're actually slightly more likely to find it in Catholic churches here in the U.S., though just about any church group can and does use it. We actually use Taizé chant during communion, though I must say that I find it absolutely mind-numbingly boring...rather than conducive to meditation, I find it makes me pray for the damn song to be over SOON!

It seems to work for the majority of the congregation, though, which is the point, after all.

Redwolf

feadogin · Post by **feadogin** » Sat May 06, 2006 11:28 am

Redwolf wrote:We actually use Taizé chant during communion, though I must say that I find it absolutely mind-numbingly boring...
Redwolf

How do you pronounce that?

J.

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Sat May 06, 2006 12:59 pm

feadogin wrote:
Redwolf wrote:We actually use Taizé chant during communion, though I must say that I find it absolutely mind-numbingly boring...
Redwolf
How do you pronounce that?

J.

I don't know how it would be correctly pronounced in French...we say "tah-ZAY."

Redwolf

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Mon May 08, 2006 8:21 pm

We actually use Taizé chant during communion, though I must say that I find it absolutely mind-numbingly boring...rather than conducive to meditation,

Me too. Our church use to do some of this stuff till I started playing the organ. I think we've done it once since then. The priest never mentions it anymore since she knows I hate it and think it's completely sensless.

Oh, I want to hear Episcopalian music.

Go here

http://www.gracecathedral.org/av/

. They've got an evensong service. My favorite of them all.

edited to add- be sure to download the service leaflet to be able to read the words of the service and the hymns

Be sure to check out the Choral Eucharist service for May 7. You'll definately recognize the first congregational hymn- Old Hundred.

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Mon May 08, 2006 9:16 pm

Nice! We're really hoping to add sound samples to our page soon as well. I wish we could have had someone taping at our "GinSing!" fundraiser this weekend...the music was fabulous! (especially the Bruckner!).

We do Evensong about four times a year, and full-on choral Masses about four times a year as well.

Redwolf