Choral Evensong Live from Queen's on Friday 24 May 2024

PRELUDE Karg-Elert Melodia monastica
RESPONSES Rose
PSALM 145
LESSONS Isaiah 51:1-8 & John 8:48-end
CANTICLES Howells Collegium regale
ANTHEM Howells A Hymn for St Cecilia
VOLUNTARY Karg-Elert Harmonies du Soir

[danmoran]

Thank you so much for providing these Liturgies to the world. The camera persons didn't want viewers to watch the organist play the Organ Voluntary in its entirety? Is that why they took the camera away from the organist -- I was intently watching him -- after a bit to show another part of the Chapel? The same for when they started showing windows rather than the priest who was chanting? I would think that would be considered disrespectful to the priest, no? And the same thing when they took the camera off the choristers and started showing a painting rather than the superb Choir singing the Magnificat of the Howells. I wanted to watch the choristers. The Choir was not in camera view until the Gloria. They had been made "background music" by production. A Choir of this high caliber deserves better. It seems to me that they should not be relegated to being "background music." After all, the name of this channel is *Choir* of The Queen's College, Oxford.