Happy Easter to all who celebrate it, and happy spring to everyone! The snow is finally retreating up here, and little green shoots are pushing out of the earth, making all of us a lot more cheerful. I've been back on my bike this week, and it feels like freedom.
If any of you would like to listen to our choir sing some glorious music for Easter Evensong, featuring the Five Mystical Songs by Ralph Vaughn Williams (at about the halfway point of the hour-long broadcast), you can listen online, starting at 4:00 pm Eastern (daylight savings) Time today (that would be 9 pm in London) by following this link to Radio Ville-Marie, Montreal. It's our pleasure to sing for you, even if we can't see you!
I thought I'd been stumped. Having clicked your link I was presented with three options "pour accéder rapidement à l'écoute en direct de Radio VM depuis votre tablette ou téléphone intelligent...", none of which I had at my disposal. Chrome and Firefox I had tried and rejected because they interfered with Blogger; Safari had always remained an unopened book. And then I noticed the simple Play symbol associated with a volume control and I found myself listening to a man, speaking remarkably accessible French, summarising the events of the Resurrection.
This is still continuing after 25 minutes 36 seconds, having been interrupted twice by an unaccompanied tenor singing what sounded like plain-song liturgy lasting, in each case, not much longer than a minute. Amazingly I still cannot be sure I'm hearing a recording or a real-time broadcast since I set all this in motion at 9 pm GMT on Easter Sunday.
Ah, at approximately 32 minutes I am listening to the unaccompanied full choir singing what sounds like one of the psalms (eg, Magnificat, Te Deum, etc) that form a regular part of the Anglican services.
The man, presumably a priest, is still going at 40 minutes, is becoming hoarse and appears to be tiring; the gaps at the end of his paragraphs are lengthening. We have reached "Le tombeau est ouvert"
At 53 minutes he says "En conclusion..."
At 57 minutes he says it again and the full choir fades in to sing something ancient very much on the beat.
Now we're into trailers.
Posted by: Roderick Robinson | April 01, 2018 at 05:03 AM
Whoops, I'm over-habituated to the 24-hour clock. All the above started at 9 am.
Posted by: Roderick Robinson | April 01, 2018 at 05:24 AM
Dear Beth,
I just caught up on some of your blog posts. I really appreciate them. Also, I just purchased the book you wrote about Gene Robinson (at the ReCover Store in WRJ) and hope to read it soon -- only a decade late, right? Happy Easter and Happy Spring to you too.
Liz
Posted by: Liz Nestler | April 13, 2018 at 05:40 PM