[Magdalen] Brightest and Best - The Epiphany, January 6, 2016.

[Grace Cangialosi]

I just did a little research, and it said the first sing at the Weavers
Church was in 1903, and it has been held every year since.  The same
article, which focused on the history of Singer's Glen, VA and the Harmonia
Sacra itself, also said that the Harmonia Sacra is the oldest hymnbook
still in use in the USA today.

One distinctive characteristic of all the sings here is that they have to
give two page numbers for all the hymns--one for the Legacy edition which
is in standard hymnal format, but with the shapes place on a regular staff,
and the other for the "Long Book," as they call it.  It's a larger book
printed on the short end (landscape style) and is more traditional.

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 7:23 PM, P. Dan Brittain <pdan.brittain at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I love the Star in the East tune.  It's one of my favorite hymns.
> > Grace and I did go to the New Years Day Harmonia Sacra sing at
> > Weaver's Mennonite church.  It was the 114th consecutive year for this
> > singing here in the Valley
> >
>
> Maybe then the oldest continuous Harmonia Sacra singing in the country. The
> Chattahoochee Sacred Harp convention dates from 1850 - it did get
> interrupted by the Civil War but resumed shortly after. I attended the
> 150th in 2001 or 2002.
>
> A Sacred Harp friend was the editor of the recent Harmonia Sacra edition.
>
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> Harrison, Arkansas
>
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-- 
Grace Cangialosi
Ruckersville, VA

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