[Claud]

I hope they bring some of the great old Anglican music, 'cause some Catholic quarters need all the help they can get.

LOL..you ain't kiddin'. Recently I tuned in the BBC's web stream of Evensong...wow...quite a different beast than the insipid parish fare we usually are subjected to!

[AnAmericanMother]

We're working on the Anglican music! (As our choirmaster says, all the old boys like Byrd and Tallis WERE Catholic at the time! The Royals were afraid to mess with them for fear of losing the music.)

This was our communion anthem last Sunday: Tallis: Verily, Verily I Say Unto You

The offertory anthem was this: Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine, but hey, a little frog music never hurt anybody.

Byrd's "Bell Anthem" next Sunday . . . we sing a LOT of English music. You'd think that the ex-Episcopalians infesting the choir would have something to do with it, but the choirmaster (a cradle Catholic) LOVES English music . . . we just shout "AMEN!"

[bboop]

"Insipid parish fare" is SUCH a nice way to say it, too. "Ditties" is another name. There are worse. I have never sung such tripe.