St George's Day

[nazard]

Being english (for at least some of us), we do tend to make very little of St George's day. Apart from the obvious "Great St. George, our patron help us" and Jerusalem, what do contributors like to play, sing or hear? My favourite is to play the congregation out to the Bos'un's song from Pinafore, which is, as a certain Major General said, infernal nonsense. The cognoscenti have a good laugh, and the others don't recognise it. What do other people do?

[Nick Baty]

We very rarely have Mass on St George's Day. This year it's a Monday – if it were tomorrow, Easter 3 would take precedence. I always wear a leek to work on St David's Day and, this year, I showed my students a Max Boyce clip on YouTube – they were underwhelmed!

[JW]

Last year I went along to play 'Great St George'. This year, it's a school Mass so it's quite possible that St George & Merrie England won't get a musical mention.

[Hare]

This morning at Mass we sang "I vow to thee my country"; The Belmont Mass and "Great St George". I played them out to a short march by Fr Andrew Moore.

[FrGareth]

Too late for this year, but for future reference:

New English Hymnal No. 162: "Lord God of Hosts" by Laurence Housman (d. 1959) to Melita (88 88 88) - see http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/l/g/h/lghwwhan.htm

NEH also suggests two general soldier-martyr hymns

Martyr of God, whose strength was steeled (LM) http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/m/o/g/mogwswas.htm

O GOD, THY SOLDIERS' CROWN AND GUARD (LM) http://musicasacra.com/books/hymns/pbeh_o_god_thy.pdf


Hymns for Prayer & Praise (2011 revised edition) offers 413 Red cross upon a field of white (LM), by Harry Hagan OSB (c) 2011, which can be found in company with other Georgian comments at http://companyofvoices.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/four-office-hymns-for-saint-george.html

[gwyn]

St. George's Day; didn't it drag-on ?

I'll get my coat.

[musicus]

Fortunately for you, Gwyn, flaming is not permitted here

[JW]

Isn't it about time we dropped this medieval crusader-imported Saint for someone more appropriate to the present day?

[TimSharrock]

I have been tempted from time to time to try to write a more pro-dragon hymn...

[alan29]

I have been tempted from time to time to try to write a more pro-dragon hymn...

Make sure you use plenty of scales.

[docmattc]

I refer the house to this thread, from which we seem to have recycled all of our 'jokes'

http://www.ssg.org.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=520

There's room for more- the forum is quite Komodo-ious

[gwyn]

Behold I make all things new, jokes however, well, that's a different matter.

[musicus]

I refer the house to this thread, from which we seem to have recycled all of our 'jokes'...

Quite unconsciously on my part, I assure you (which is quite scary, actually).

[gwyn]

Here's some timely advice on how to slay modern-day dragons.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00g145f

Mwynhewch.