[Magdalen] A great sadness

[Scott Knitter]

David: You and Marion are making me yearn to find a way to sing again.
Some demon within keeps me from doing what's needed to get into a good
musical situation: "I'll never be able to commit to consistent
rehearsal attendance." "All the groups that do repertoire I'd like to
sing are several leagues more proficient than I."

I do get a thrill from chanting the Epistle to the "fancy tone" on
holy days, like the Presentation this past Tuesday night. I think it's
up to me when to do it (and some subdeacons never do, which is fine),
but I figure if we had a solemn procession, we need the fancy Epistle
tone. I think it almost upstages the Gospel tone.

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 8:49 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
<magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> I similar event occurred for me a few years ago when I retired from
> the Latin Rite plainchant schola and polyphonic choir.  For  nearly
> 20 years I similarly sang "the good stuff" with them, counted many
> of them as friends, and all in all it was the high point of my choral
> "career."




-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA