{"id":5412,"date":"2020-02-08T23:29:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T23:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=5412"},"modified":"2020-02-11T00:06:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T00:06:57","slug":"a-weekend-with-mathias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2020\/02\/08\/a-weekend-with-mathias\/","title":{"rendered":"a weekend with Mathias"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a busy weekend with two extra services, both of which included anthems by William Mathias.<\/p>\n

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On Saturday I revisited St Mary Redcliffe for the first time in several years, to join a visiting choir for the first Evensong of Candlemas. Our music included Eccard (from the ambulatory), Neary responses, Wood in D and Mathias’ Let the people praise thee O God<\/i>. There was a final chance to see their Christmas decorations, including a nativity scene within the main altar and a huge suspended wreath, before the season for them ended. Kudos to the Redcliffe folk for providing us with tea, biscuits and cake before we sang.<\/p>\n

On Sunday evening we had an extra service of hymns, anthems and readings for Candlemas at church, which included Mathias’ Lift up your heads<\/i>, Ola Gjelo’s Ubi Caritas<\/i>, O Nata Lux<\/i> by Lauridsen, and the inevitable Eccard. An occupational hazard of Candlemas is dealing with lighted candles. We juggled ours carefully while singing the Nunc Dimittis from Howells’ Coll. Reg. setting; extra tricky, firstly because we do not yet have our new choir-stalls so we had to hold the copies in the non-candle hand, and secondly because this is one of those settings where you have to turn back to the Magnificat for the Gloria…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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