Who else is [1] working an Anglican Church on 12-24 and [2] playing the Willcocks carol settings for the manyeth time?

[bloke]

It's been so many years at this particular (and particularly generous) church, that it's difficult for me to remember NOT playing (several of) them on the 24th (into the 25th).







...and (for not quite as many years), the horn player and I have been hanging out here between the two services...
c. 7 - 9:45 P.M. (midnight mass cranks up c. 10:30)...Almost NOTHING is open in Memphis after 5 P.M. on December 24th.
If not absolutely closed, restaurant doors are locked, and employees are having parties. Yang's...BAH !!! HUMBUG !!!


oh yeah...and Mr. Yang is armed to the teeth, so we feel reasonably safe.

[the elephant]

St. Andrew's Episcopal Cathedral
December 24th
5:00, 7:00, and 11:00 services (brass preludes a half hour prior)
32 years in a row

sometimes Wilcox
sometimes BCP/Hymnal
sometimes something else

Prelude usually has some of the (very) old Canadian Brass (some with organ), usually four or five of my things, almost always that dastardly arrangement of Veni, Veni, Emmanuel by Walter Blanton that ends on a pianissimo F above the staff. I am becoming neurotic about that note in that arrangement. <shudder>

We are doing the Canadian Brass (Don Gillis?) arrangement of The Holly and the Ivy with the three-octave range again, this year.

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue…"

[iiipopes]

Does singing full midnight mass in the choir count?
St. James Episcopal Church,
Springfield MO

[Three Valves]

@bloke if other Chinese and Jews are eating there Christmas Eve I’d order what thet are having.

Cheese steak?

Gyros?

[BlueRidgeTeacher]

This season: 4 different servives, all using Willcocks. And all 4 are at least doing O Come, All Ye Faithful.

BRT

[bloke]

Yes, that Fanfare is really popular.

The organist is making up his own introductions for most all the other ones, because the ones that Willcox wrote are mostly too short for the congregation to make themselves aware that it's about time to sing a carol, to find the page in the hymnal, and to stand up and sing.

[sweaty]

I'm doing Willcocks tonight, but singing. Not playing.