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Date: 15 February 2005 17:25:55
A quiet and gentle service in the morning - such as is suitable for Lenten reflection. The anthem was sung to match the mood: 'Lord for thy tender mercies sake' by Farrant. A lighter moment was the not-so-subtle notification that it was the curate's birthday during the organ interlude. Only two bars were played but no more was needed.
At evensong, the sole tenor who attended timed both the anthem and the sermon. The 9 1/2 minute sermon won - just - by half a minute. We sang 'The Wilderness' by John Goss. At first I was very cross that it wasn't 'The Wilderness' by Wesley, but surprisingly the Goss version grew on me. Before that, my opinion was the same as the webmaster on "The Church Music Site" who said, 'The Wilderness, all nine minutes of it, is sort of overblown, melodramatic piece that gives Victorian music a bad name'. Ah well, at least we knew we sang it at the right speed.....