[Magdalen] Catching up a bit

[P. Dan Brittain]

On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 4:42 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ​
> So after Church today I felt I would have a clear afternoon in which to
> attend a local meeting of Shape Note singers.  (Port Hope is a terrific
> place!)  Our Elizabeth Barlow who is entrenched in the community as a
> teacher, choral director, organist, and all sorts of stuff leads this and
> another group down the road.  She mentioned being at a convention in
> Chicago and I asked if she knows our Dan Brittain.  Oh, yes. ( I think he
> enjoys rather exalted status in this.)   Such a small world, isn't it?
> Anyway, it was good fun and not a great stretch for one who sight-reads and
> is familiar with the style and sound even if new to trying it.
>

​Glad you had a good time with it. Say hello to Elizabeth for me.​

​I have met a number of the Toronto and Kingston) area singers​. Several of
them come to Camp Fasola in Alabama each June.

>
> We sang from two books,  The Shenandoa Book and one with a red cover --
> Sacred Harp?
>

​The one with the red cover is the 1991 revision of The Sacred Harp.​ I
have 4 songs in that book. The Shenandoah Harmony is a relatively new
collection, being 6-7 years old; I have several songs in that book too (One
- named Cowling for a Toronto area organist - the late Doug Cowling a
long-time member of the Anglican Music List). The Shenandoah is mostly
songs of Annanias Davision and his contemporaries who lived in the
Shenandoah Valley; his main fame is as compiler of The Kentucky Harmony and
the Supplement to The Kentucky Harmony. The compilers did include songs
from a number of living composers too).

Dan



>
> And Holy Week is on the horizon.  Woo-hoo!
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
>


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Harrison, Arkansas

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