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Ronnie Hughes's avatar

Well! I’ve just listened to Dvorak’s Mass and that’s going to sound fantastic in your Cathedral. A fitting setting for the collective care you’re all putting into its preparation.

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Samantha Clark's avatar

It's a wonderful piece - deceptively simple to begin with, and then he takes you off on some ear-bending, slip-sliding key changes that are quite a challenge to get right! Somewhere in there we found the famously discordant "Tristan" chord last week, apparently first used by Wagner to open Tristan and Isolde.

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Ronnie Hughes's avatar

Maybe I wasn’t listening loud enough to hear that. I’ll turn it up next time!

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Samantha Clark's avatar

I wouldn't spot it - better ears than mine did!

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Roberta Mason's avatar

Wonderful! So true. The piece in progress on the table immediately felt like hard rain on the sea...I could hear and feel it... remembering what it's like to be below the surface ...thanks for sharing.

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Samantha Clark's avatar

Well, I must be on the right track then! Thank you Roberta!

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Linda G's avatar

The work in progress appears to me as a small water fall ledge in a stream during a spring shower. The stream, the falls, and the falling rain all voices in a fugue

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