[Magdalen] VTS Chapel,

[Cantor03 at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/10/2015 3:33:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
jguthrie at pipeline.com writes:

At the  Celebrant's instruction ringing the Sanctus Bell as many times as 
it 
takes  at the offertory when the choir director has decided that today's 
anthem  
will consist of the entire Wagner Ring  Cycle.>>>>>>>>
 
On the one occasion when I attended the Easter Vigil at SMV in New  York,
it was after an afternoon performance of Gotterdammerung ("Twilight of  the
Gods"), the last in the Wagner Ring Cycle at the Met Opera.
 
The Assistant Bishop of New York seemed unusually clumsy in his
duties as chief presider that evening, and he managed to drop his
microphone on the stone floor several times during the course of the
evening Liturgy.  The resulting crashing noise which reverberated  through
that very live church was memorable.  After the last such episode,  we
decided that the Met Opera staging of the final scene of the opera  could
take some tips from SMV, at least in the auditory department.
 
 
David Strang.