Technology, church music, bicycles, and life in Ireland
The latest advice from the Irish government is that choirs can resume singing together in about a week’s time, at the beginning of Phase 3 of the easing of COVID-19 restrictions. After months of silence – or solo singing from home as part of virtual choirs – singers will be able to rehearse and perform […]
Being stuck at home instead of singing in church on Good Friday, I’ve turned to my trusted Passiontide playlist on Spotify:
It was back in 1998 that I set up and launched the Anglican Church Music web site, as a place to record all the website links to cathedral and church choirs that I had amassed. Today, some 15 years later, the site is still active, but under the control of John Watkins. He very graciously […]
This afternoon at Christ Church, we celebrated the ordination of 3 deacons within the diocese. This is the first of two ordination services taking place in the cathedral; the second of which being the ordination of priests next Sunday. Both the services are quite special in their own way. However, for me the ordination of […]
The funeral service of the Very Reverend Desmond Harman took place at 11.00am today in Christ Church Cathedral Dublin. At the request of his family the service was a Eucharist of Thanksgiving and Celebration, and it was celebrated by the Most Reverend Dr. John Neill, Archbishop of Dublin. The sermon was given by the Venerable […]
Ended evensong in a very good mood today, principally because we had just sung a load of Purcell music. I don’t know about you, but I can’t get enough of the stuff. My current director of music seems to be a fan of early music and modern 20th/21st century music, and very little in-between. As […]
