Nuns on the Box

[Nick Baty]

The Poor Clares of Hawarden are on BBC1 at 11.20pm tonight, talking about their music.
More details here.

[nazard]

Would that be as in "Hawarden not your hearts..."

[Nick Baty]

Ahem! Will let that slur on our language pass!
(Please remember, the evidence is that God speaks Welsh – possibly Cornish or Gaelic, although these two are less likely.)
The pronunciation is nearer to How-ar-den – with the first two syllabes almost run together.

[nazard]

Penarlâg is easier to say.

It was an interesting programme - thank you for drawing my attention to it. It brought home the difficulty of getting a group of people selected for some other consideration than their ability to sing to sing well.

Le Barroux is on my list of places I must visit, but it was the monks that draw me to it. It sounds a wonderful place.

Tomorrow I may well go looking for the cd. I would like to get our parish choir singing Adoro te devote like that, even if our present priest insists on "Godhead here in hiding" and wonders if a guitar and a couple of tambourines would liven it up a bit.

I wonder if the poor Clares would like to move to Ffynongroew, its much more fun to say, and not far from their present hangout.

[Nick Baty]

Haven't seen it yet as I don't have TV – will watch tomorrow on iPlayer. But I know these sisters very well – I made a programme about them a few years ago when I was still with the BBC. These days, I consider them among my closest friends. In fact, I'm visiting them on Friday – to talk music.

I suspect you'd wouldn't persuade them to move. But if you're ever in their neck of the woods do call in. For an enclosed community they are incredibly welcoming.

To find out more about them, visit their website at: http://www.poorclarestmd.org

[Nick Baty]

Now available on iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... uns_Aloud/

[gwyn]

Nazard mentioned;

. . . our present priest insists on "Godhead here in hiding" and wonders if a guitar and a couple of tambourines would liven it up a bit.

I'd invite the local Iman along, he might have a bit more liturgical sensiticity than yer man there.

[Nick Baty]

Give him a copy of Sibelius or FInale and ask him to get on with it!

[gwyn]

Good thinking Nick.

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