CE St Eustachius Church, Tavistock [R] Wed, 13th Sept 2023

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  • DracoM
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    • Mar 2007
    • 12983

    CE St Eustachius Church, Tavistock [R] Wed, 13th Sept 2023

    CE St Eustachius Church, Tavistock [R]
    Exon Singers Festival, for the Eve of Holy Cross Day

    Order of Service:

    Introit: Crux fidelis (King John IV of Portugal)
    Responses: Tomkins
    Psalm 66 (Plainsong)
    First Lesson: Isaiah 52 v.13 – 53 v.12
    Office hymn: The royal banners forward go (Gonfalon Royal)
    Canticles: Evening Canticles (Sarah Rimkus)
    Second Lesson: Ephesians 2 vv.11-22
    Anthem: Praise (Dobrinka Tabakova)
    Hymn: When I survey the wondrous cross (Rockingham)
    Voluntary: Diptych (Chorale) (Dobrinka Tabakova)



    Neil Taylor (Organist)
    Joseph Judge (Conductor)

    Recorded 28 July

  • ardcarp
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 11102

    #2
    Look forward to this. Just a note: the founder of the Exon Singers, Christopher Teuten, died on 7th July this year. In his later years he had formed an informal choir, Devon Voices. I rounded them up shortly before he died, and we sang a few of his favourites to him at his home. It was a pleasure for us and he clearly enjoyed the occasion, even though he was then very weak. It is wonderful to know that his 'baby' The Exon Singers, is still flourishing.

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    • mopsus
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      • Nov 2010
      • 824

      #3
      I have happy memories of singing services in this church when on summer tour with the Exon Singers, then conducted by Christopher Tolley. In those days their broadcast evensong came at New Year, and then for many years they didn't get a broadcast at all.

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      • ardcarp
        Late member
        • Nov 2010
        • 11102

        #4
        I've sung with them too, when Mathew Owens took them over for a while. No broadcasts in my time. I think they may have broadcast from Tewkesbury Abbey once or twice.

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        • mopsus
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          • Nov 2010
          • 824

          #5
          Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
          I've sung with them too, when Mathew Owens took them over for a while. No broadcasts in my time. I think they may have broadcast from Tewkesbury Abbey once or twice.
          They used to do a broadcast from (a very cold) Tewkesbury Abbey in the week after Christmas. They've also more recently broadcast from Buckfast Abbey. The gap when they didn't broadcast in the CE slot is shorter than I thought; from 1995 to 2001.

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          • DracoM
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            • Mar 2007
            • 12983

            #6
            Reminder: today at - guess what? - USUAL time..................Hurray!...

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            • DracoM
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              • Mar 2007
              • 12983

              #7
              Good choice of material, and good, no-fuss professionalism in delivering it.

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              • Finzi4ever
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                • Nov 2010
                • 599

                #8
                Originally posted by mopsus View Post

                They used to do a broadcast from (a very cold) Tewkesbury Abbey in the week after Christmas. They've also more recently broadcast from Buckfast Abbey. The gap when they didn't broadcast in the CE slot is shorter than I thought; from 1995 to 2001.
                This was my era with them too (mid80s-early00s), from the 'good doctor' (Tolley), via Lumsden then Carwood, to Owens. "Ah, happy days!" I preferred the annual Tewkesbury gigs (despite the cold) to Dartmoor week tbh.

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                • DracoM
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                  • Mar 2007
                  • 12983

                  #9
                  Reminder: rpt today.

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                  • ardcarp
                    Late member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 11102

                    #10
                    I hate to say this about a choir I sang with in the past, and which usually sparkled. But I thought the CE rather dull. It felt somewhat Lentent! But as Draco says, professionally delivered.

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                    • jonfan
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                      • Dec 2010
                      • 1442

                      #11
                      I agree, though professionally sung as remarked. There were some intonation issues at times to my ears.

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                      • subcontrabass
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 2780

                        #12
                        Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
                        It felt somewhat Lentent! .
                        Is that not appropriate for the Feast of the Holy Cross?

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                        • ardcarp
                          Late member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 11102

                          #13
                          I’m no expert on Church Feast Days, but searching online I find ‘The Exultation of the Holy Cross’. Not much exultation I felt.

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                          • Vox Humana
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                            • Dec 2012
                            • 1252

                            #14
                            If you want to know about the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, the account from the Legenda Aurea, as published by Wynkyn de Worde in 1534, can be read here. Go to thumbnail image 564.


                            If you really are a glutton for punishment, the account from John Mirk's Liber Festivalis (William Caxton, 1483) can be read here (thumbnail 212):


                            Accounts like these make you realise why there was a reformation and I very much doubt that this is what the present 'Holy Cross Day'.is celebrating.

                            I must say that the 'Lunaversal Viewer' used for these books gives me a sinking feeling whenever I encounter it - it really is an unfriendly piece of software - but I'll put up with anything for the pleasure of being able to read books like this online.
                            Last edited by Vox Humana; 19-09-23, 02:35.

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                            • subcontrabass
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                              • Nov 2010
                              • 2780

                              #15
                              Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
                              I’m no expert on Church Feast Days, but searching online I find ‘The Exultation of the Holy Cross’. Not much exultation I felt.
                              ExAltation - "rasing up" for solemn veneration, NOT exUltation - "rejoicing.

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