[Magdalen] Announcement!

[cady soukup]

Wow - what a gift to "come home" to musical glory!

Congratulations and a small liturgically-correct happy dance for you.

hugs - Cady

On 3/28/16, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Congratulations on having come full circle.  May you be blessed in your
> new position.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
> On 3/27/2016 4:26 PM, Lesley de Voil wrote:
>> It is with much pleasure that I can announce to all my friends that I
>> have accepted the position of Director of Music at All Saints' Church,
>> Wickham Terrace, Brisbane. I feel particularly blessed by this event,
>> as ASWT is where I started my 60-year long journey in Christian
>> service through music.
>> ASWT was once a bastion of Anglo-Catholicism in a sea of relatively
>> low-church liturgical practice, although that is no longer so obvious
>> (and no, ASWT has not changed - the Diocese has.) Here I was
>> introduced to plainsong. here the sermon would contain reference to
>> the visual and dramatic arts, here the conversation was intellectually
>> stimulating to this rather sheltered teenager. It was not until quite
>> some years later that I  realised how fortunate I had been!
>> I will now have responsibility for a professional quartet, with
>> "satellite singers" for special occasions, as well as opportunity to
>> involve other instrumentalists  regularly.
>> As well, I was fortunate enough to be working for the organbuilder
>> when the ASWT Lewis organ was rebuilt a few years ago, so I know the
>> instrument quite well (It will certainly contain my DNA from my sweat,
>> if not my blood  and tears!)
>> I will be sad to leave the parish where I have been very happy for the
>> past five years, in fact I would have been content to retire from
>> musical practice altogether from that place, but the present
>> opportunity is one I could not pass by.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Lesley de Voil
>>
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