Society of Saint Gregory

I think the Bishop mentioned by Crumhorn (He the shepherd of the eastern angles) may have felt that everyone saying Amen was preferable to just a few of us singing it. However, I am in favour of us using something like the .... Negro spiritualish aaaamen, aaaamen, a-amen,amen, amen. because I think ...

may the hair on your PP's toes never fall out! If you are as mystified as I was by that comment, it is a reference to Hobbitdom. No, I don't think that Crumhorn has gone mad, but he is getting very depressed. I am also getting very depressed since I too feel that we are being bullied and we are not ...

Further to Crumhorn report. Peace and quietness seems to have broken out all over! I sang the psalm tonight (Ash Wednesday) quietly ... tricky as there was a top E which as an alto I need a bit of umph to hit squarely. We met afterwards and the music for this Sunday reflects our rather chastened ...

As a member of the same somewhat beleagued music group mentioned by Crumhorn I think that the PP and the PPC aren't so much trying to alter the liturgy as to cut it down to the bare minimum and to reduce the musical content greatly. It is, as the current phrase has it, doing my head in ... we can ...