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Date: 30 April 2009 08:48:01
Our sparkly new Common Worship psalters have arrived. They look very easy to use - words and music in one volume - and have some interesting new canticles at the back. I know this because, in my wickedness, I spent most of the sermon reading it. The anthem, 'View me Lord' (Lloyd) went particularly well this morning. The conductor gave us plenty of guidance as to expressive singing and - for once? - we were all watching him carefully. Although we now use modern words for the psalms, the Mag. and Nunc. are still sung to Prayer Book words. It would cause too much confusion to change those, thank goodness. It was a pleasure to sing something beautifully simple for the Evensong anthem: 'Lead me Lord' (Wesley). The bass-singing reader managed to lift himself from his sick bed to rejoin us to sing evensong and the anthem: the best medicine you could wish for.