We relearnt a half-forgotten childhood hymn today, especially for the little girl who was to be baptised: ‘Daisies are our silver, buttercups our gold’. The simple anthem, ‘A new commandment’ (Aston) was also appreciated and commented upon.
We pulled out all the stops for our Festival Evensong (part of the Tavistock Sings Festival) and enjoyed listening to our guest speaker, Lord Harries. The chance for a ‘jolly good sing’ is always appreciated, and provided for with the Millington responses, Brewer in D, 150th psalm (confusingly with modern words) and Millington’s ‘Sing we Merrily’.
Those of us still with voices left on Monday continued the festival with a workshop and performance of ‘The Armed Man’ (Jenkins). Our own vicar sang the solos (some in counter tenor, others in baritone) and we enjoyed listening to the young trumpeter playing the Last Post.
An enjoyable ending to a thoroughly musical week.
Oh my goodness… I remember that hymn… or at least I remember that line. Where can I find the rest of it (and the tune)? We used to sing it a lot at primary school….How amazing the memory is when you’re young….you just soak it all up….
whereas now….
Found the words (on the internet, of course!) and discovered that the lyricist also wrote the words to “When a knight won his spurs in the stories of old” – another primary school classic. Glorious, glorious morning assemblies…
yes i remember it too as a sunday school regular sung alongside ‘Jesus’ hands were kind hands’
& ‘Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so’
….also last saturday went to the ‘Armed Man’ in Winchester Cathedral – well perfomed by local choral societies who come together annually to present a concert, included a military trumpeter & an Imam for the ‘call to prayer’, the other work at the concert was Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem ….hadnt heard it before, the words were printed in the programme & parts are very moving