Mass Setting

[Contratrombone64]

yesterday was a normal high feast day at Christ Church St. Laurence, Sydney. I was up for reading the intercessions, which were harrowing in places. However the wonderful choir did a setting by Wood, in the Phrygian mode (spelling)? At the end of the service I said to a couple of them how lovely the setting was, they agreed, and refer to it as "The Fridge in the Wood".

On Sunday evening, at Christ Church, they also to the benediction (complete with the priest waving the host around wearing a white cape), which is seldom done in the Catholic Church I understand, any other places still perform this ceremony?

[Soubasse]

Benediction with host waving and flowing garments is seen on a semi-regular basis here at S. Francis Xavier's - maybe a handful of times a year (no-one really takes much notice to be honest).

Re the mass setting, I once knew it well but haven't heard it for a very long time, not since I was organ scholar at the Anglican cathedral. There, it was referred to the other way around, ie: "Wood in the Fridge" I do remember it was a nice work though - many from that era are pleasant on the ears.

Mass settings here lately have been been gravitating around Peeters, Byrd, Lloyd-Webber (daddy of course, not his Broadway son) and this Sunday we're in for a treat with a combined choir doing the Langlais Messe Solenelle (and speaking of nicknames, I'm sure some know that one as the "Messy Solenoid" ... something that has of course, brought many an organist to grief with misfiring pistons).

[Corno Dolce]

Messy Solenoid - Oh No *Groans, Moans & Sighs* @Soubasse

[Contratrombone64]

have any of you heard of the Mass setting by Peter Jewkes (Missa Breva), he's organist at Christ Church, St. Laurence, it's quite pleasant.

[Soubasse]

Messy Solenoid - Oh No

I know - wretched isn't it?!