Society of Saint Gregory

Indeed, Q: I will be submitting an account of the meeting (including this discussion) for inclusion in the next issue of Music and Liturgy (early 2016). That'll be well into the "year", Alan - any chance of a preview of the relvant part of the account on the forum here? Q Yes, I'll post a draft on ...

...Incidentally, congratulations to Paul Inwood whose hymn setting has been chosen as the official anthem (if that's the right word) and to the Composers' Forum for planning to discuss its use. I hope you'll be sharing your ideas with us all. Q Indeed, Q: I will be submitting an account of the ...

Keith is correct, but I have now managed to find a venue for 10 October at St Joseph's Church, Bunhill Row, London. Later today I will send an email to the Composers' Forum mailing list, giving full details. Anyone is welcome to be on this mailing list and to attend our meetings: just email me at ...

At Holy Redeemer, Pershore: Palm Sunday 10am Entrance antiphon: Hosanna Son of David (Peter Jones) Procession: All glory, laud and honour / Ride on! Ride on in majesty / Sing Hosanna Psalm: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me (Alan Smith) Gospel acclamation: Meditation on the Passion ...

... I do feel slightly frustrated with what I am currently gaining from the SSG, although not as frustrated as the rest of the SSG are perhaps currently feeling with me! I suggest you have a conversation with your SSG regional rep about your first point; as to your second, well, I was a member for ...

Now would be a good time to think about submitting pieces for consideration at the meeting on 14 September. All Composers' Forum members should have received full information about this meeting some time ago; if not, or if you'd like to join the Forum, please email me at alanpsmith AT mac.com ...

JW, I have just PMd one of my settings to you, along with this note: Here's one of mine, based on my festal tone setting of Psalm 66 in Psalm Songs volume 2, page78. I have added verse 8 of the psalm to avoid the very awkward three-line stanza at the end. My congregation doesn't have a problem with ...

I have just sent out invitations to and full details of the next meeting to everyone on the SSG Composers' Forum email list. If you would like to be added to (or removed from) the list, please email me. Please note that the date has been changed to Saturday 14 September Alan Smith Convenor, SSG ...

contrabordun wrote:...and our very own Alan Smith/Like the Murmur of the Dove's Song).

Very kind - but, alas, not me but my more prolific namesake. I have taken to putting 'Alan P Smith' in the copyright line.

I'm sure you're right, Dunstan.

I noticed that Pope Francis didn't sing anything this evening. This was probably more to do with him having only one lung, but I thought it actually contributed to the impressive simplicity of his first public appearance.

Decani have now published a separate edition of my Pershore Mass which, I am happy to say, corrects the typesetting errors that crept into the Laudate Supplement and the revised edition of Laudate. I expect it will take a while for the Decani website to catch up, but the copies are available now ...

I have bought copies of the new edition of Laudate (though we have no plans to update the congregational copies). In many ways it is a handsome and useful production, and it would still be my first choice. However, by no means all of the first edition's typos have been eliminated, nor is all of the ...

As an across-the-water friend of SSG, the feasibility of myself and probably many others attending the Composers' Forum meetings is very unlikely. Would there be any way the SSG could expand the Composers' Forum digitally? Submission of scores (anonymously, perhaps, on the website) for feedback etc ...

I agree too. My first setting of the new texts - the Pershore Mass - was not as varied as it might have been in its use of thematic material, and a mix and match approach would be both understandable and effective. (In fact, while the new Laudate prints the entire setting, the new Celebration for ...

Peter Jones wrote:... We're going to sing the Missal Chant of Credo III.

In English, in case anyone is wondering.