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[Roger Stokes]

Sheila,

It depends what sort of message you want to leave with them, and that 
copy of the music is certainly old. The UK adopted decimal currency in 
February 1971. If it doesn't give the decimal equivalent (25p) then it 
dates from significantly before them. Apparently as a teenager Joan 
played at a local RC church which decided to dispense with her services 
as she didn't live in the parish, though she did live in the parish 
which it had been carved out of. Apparently she decided as her final 
postlude to play the Internationale! Some say that the appropriate 
response to "Merry Christmas" is "Happy Easter". (Years ago I was 
supplying in a church for the first time at Christmas and started my 
sermon by saying "Happy Easter" before going into the theology for 
that.) So it might be appropriate to play "See the conquering hero 
comes" from Handel's Judas Maccabeus.

Roger

On 19/12/2020 20:28, Sheila Ketler wrote:
> I have noticed that there are only a few postings on Magdalen - I remember
> the days when there were a lot more people involved a lot more posts and
> the Listgive... Ah the listgive!! A couple of weeks ago searching for
> something I thought I had lost I found a very pretty cross that someone
> gave me as a Listgive... I had thought it had gone missing but there it
> was...
> Anyway I am playing a couple more services before end of year - trouble is
> I have so many favorite hymns and pieces and only 2 services to cram them
> into...Not sure if I will go through to the New Year the church has decided
> that music is non essential to worship and so cut my hours...I did notice
> when I was there that they had canned music ... The younger of the two
> priests ploayed Leonard Cohen's Come healing... not sure what that had to
> do with our sermon topic but there you have it!! of course the sermon
> always ends up talking about Covid... and I am getting tired of hearing
> about it yes it is here yes we have to cope with it.. but we have to go on
> as bet we can..
> So I am still trying to figure out what to play... so I play a prelude
> portion then I play during the beginning of the Communion itself as the
> elements are being prepared and then during the communion itself as people
> come up one at a time... then I Play them out...Not sure what they will
> hear tomorrow... quite often I have a few in mind but decide to go as the
> Spirit leads... I have keyboards here so I practice here it is a 46 k drive
> round-trip and with things so unsure with them I have decided to just go on
> the Sunday and Christmas Eve.. not doing another trek...
> I am thinking of doing Mary's Boy Child by Jester Hairston (I have an
> original copy of that music which came from Scotland back in the day it
> cost 5 shillings!! and has harp notation..) This is a priceless pirce of
> mnusic and one I guard .... and save for special occaions... Perhaps that
> is Christmas Eve appropriate??
>
> Sheila