They always follow Red around. Sometimes this can become tiresome and she stuffs them under her robe, but they get wiggly and tickly and she invariably lets them out.
I was at a mostly Lebonese-Arab Eastern Othodox Church the other day for Pascha (Passover/Easter), and their music sounded, no pun intended, absolutely devine.
I was also at a Baptist Church today and their music sounded like hip hop. In fact, they had a hip hop artist perform whose name was Royalty Jackson. It was “interesting” Church music after having recently been to the Eastern Orthodox service.
But like I said, I want to hear Episcopalian music. Maybe next Sunday…
It’s an academic hood. It’s traditional, for certain high services, for people who have higher degrees to wear their hoods, if they have them. You can’t see it in that picture, but the bulk of her hood is blue…she’s a PhD in marine biology. If you look at the two people on either end of that row (the choir master and the blonde lady at the right end), they’re wearing pink hoods…they both have masters degrees in music.
I only have a lowly BA in English, so I don’t bother.
Good Anglican choral music is ethereal. Our repertoire is cathedral-style music…it’s the kind of thing you’d hear at, say, Westminster Abbey or St. Paul’s. In fact, one high point of our trip to England this past summer, for me at least, was Evensong at St. Paul’s. If you can find a church that does Evensong, that can be a great first exposure to the kind of music we do.
We ultimately hope to have some sound samples up on the site, but bandwidth constraints will prevent them from being very long, I’m afraid. Sometime in the next year or so, we also plan to release a CD.
Speaking of Anglican singing, there was an Episcopal student group
who put on an evening Taizé Chant service near my college. I kept
wanting to attend,but they stopped before I had the chance. Does
anyone still do this sort of thing? Is it a Protestant thing outside of
France, or should I look for Catholic services, too?