[Magdalen] Update (was Prayer request)

[Roger Stokes]

I am delighted it went well and agree it would be good for Kristin to be 
seen there more regularly.

I am not a musician but agree that there are hymns which are better 
suited to a more percussive accompaniment than the organ supplies. There 
is little you can do about it if that is the hymn chosen and the organ 
is the only accompaniment available.

Roger

On 06/01/2015 21:40, Kristin Rollins wrote:
> All went well.
>
> I avoided correcting the two people who called me by my old name,
> because it didn't feel like there was a good way to handle it. (In one
> case, it was called from the front of the church to where I was in the
> organ loft at the back of the church, thankfully before anybody else had
> arrived.) But my connection there is peripheral enough that it is not
> surprising that there were people who didn't know.
>
> The playing went OK, even though two of the three hymns were ones with
> arrangements better suited to piano than organ, and even with the long
> layoff. The nave held everybody, so the only company I had up near the
> organ was the rector's wife, and then the chair of the altar guild came
> up and sat beside me during the sermon.
>
> But I am definitely relieved to put that "first time" behind me. And I
> really need to get over there one of these Sunday mornings, since I'm
> not "chained" to St. John's every single Sunday now.
>
> Kristin
>