Another Sunday at St Canice's

Our cantor this morning was Catherine De Luca with a wonderful soprano voice. She sings with the Sydney Symphonia choir.

Today I went into the choir loft and managed to capture the Gloria from the Christopher Willcock’s “Missa Messina” on my little Canon G10 camera. He is a Jesuit and a prolific composer. Father Steve is 'loyal to the brand' and likes this Mass played even though some of the hymns are patchy in content and are long. (Better than the wailing Whilomena’s with the overhead projector that Anne has to contend with at the Gold Coast though.)



The Psalm “Let us Rejoice” shows Catherine's wonderful soprano voice to advantage.



It's interesting to hear the same Psalm as sung by the young tenor, Marcus Bortolotti at Mass a couple of Sundays ago too.





I photographed a solo by Catherine of “The Lord is my Shepherd” – the arrangement that is the theme of the TV series “The Vicar of Dibley” with Christine accompanying her on the piano. The children and other noises spoil what could have been very nice on this Good Shepherd Sunday. There's also some clicks in the recording. And I can’t edit these flaws out on the recently discovered Windows Movie Maker software in Microsoft Office 2007 recently installed on my computer. It takes .avi and .wav files but not .MOV format files that my camera uses.



Overall the quality of the video is not as good as last week because being up in the organ loft I am too far away to get a good focus. Also, I think the balance of sound among the organ, cantor and congregation is heavily biased in favour of the organ - my being in such close proximity.

After Mass, we are treated to a solo on the organ by Christine. Today "The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" (Handel) and "Ode to Joy" (Beethoven).