We did actually get to sing our Advent and Christmas carol services in person, though the usual scramble (they happen 2 weeks apart) got even more compressed with our limited rehearsal time. So we didn’t try to learn anything new. There was one piece I had not sung for many years (possibly the others sang it a recent year when I didn’t do the carol service): H. C. Stewart’s On this day Earth Shall Ring<\/i>. I now found out that the words are a translation of my school carol, Personent Hodie<\/i>; each year at school as I progressed with Latin I understood rather more of them. <\/p>\n
Some relatively recent pieces included Andrew Lumsden’s arrangement of Come Thou redeemer of the earth<\/i> and Malcolm Archer’s settting of Creator of the stars of night<\/i>, performed in the presence of the composer. I sang one of the O Antiphons, and am gradually working my way round them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We did actually get to sing our Advent and Christmas carol services in person, though the usual scramble (they happen 2 weeks apart) got even more compressed with our limited rehearsal time. So we didn’t try to learn anything new. … Continue reading