Service: 9 of 9 Time: 0:30 Total: 4:00 Grand total: 17:22 Crew: Altar: Fr T and two acolytes (the young man who has now served All The Services, and my godson’s brother). Choir: SSSSSAAT, so I asked Ukrainian Soprano to sing the alto part because she can, though it doesn’t really suit her voice. Congregation:
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Christ is risen!
Service: 8 of 9 Time: 3:30 Total: 3:30 Grand total: 16:52 Crew: Altar: Fr T, Hypodiakon and five acolytes (two young men, an older man, two boys aged about 12). Choir: SSSSAATB (Baritone had volunteered to help out the Serbians in his hometown who appeared to otherwise have no singers at all, but we had
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Service: 7 of 9 Time: 2:45 Total: 4:35 Grand total: 13:22 Crew: Altar: Fr T and three acolytes. One, a teenage boy, only got into a sticharion after he’d read his Old Testament reading. Choir: SSSAAT. Young Soprano directed the glorification when I was reading from the Book of Daniel. Readers: young and older people from the
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Service: 6 of 9 Time: 1:55 Total: 1:55 Grand total: 10:42 Crew: Altar: Fr T, hypodiakon and two acolytes; one the young man who has been in all the services and the other a young man who used to be in our parish as a boy (my godson’s elder brother, in fact) and still comes
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Service: 5 of 9 Time: 1:15 Total: 5:34 Grand total: 8:47 Crew: Altar: Fr T, hypodiakon, 2 acolytes. Choir: SSSAABB (started with only Baritone, later Bass came in ON HIS 50TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY). Congregation: looked like about 30 near the end of the service (people kept trickling in) but there were more than twice that
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Service: 4 of 9 Time: 1:45 Total: 4:19 Grand total: 7:32 Crew: Altar: Fr T + acolyte (mostly outside the altar though). Choir: SSAB, that is to say, a reader for every hour. Ukrainian Soprano read the Sixth Hour in Slavonic with great speed and accuracy, and I could understand just enough to read along
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Service: 3 of 9 Time: 2:34 Total: 2:34 Grand total: 5:47 Crew: Altar: Fr T, Deacon V and acolyte (the same acolyte who has been serving the previous services, he’s assiduous!) Choir: SSAATB, meaning that the person who can’t keep themself from singing (I symphatise) and tends to fill in missing parts (I dislike) couldn’t
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Service: 2 of 9 Time: 1:45 (estimated) Total: 3:13 Crew: Altar: Fr T, hypodiakon, acolyte. Choir: AAB, so I sang the melody part almost throughout. It’s a mezzo part, and I really pushed the upper limits of my voice. Now I’m tired but not exhausted, a good sign. B is a baritone so we couldn’t
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Service: 1 of 9 Time: 1:28, which seems astonishingly fast, but all of us (well, both of us) who were doing readings are fast readers. I had to keep a tight rein on the stichera because we tended to go too fast on those too, and that is bad for understandability. Total: 1:28 Crew: Altar:
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I wrote a post in 2018. Everything I wrote in it still stands. Now it’s time for another one. This time around I was the choirmistress myself so couldn’t cry off, much as I’d have liked. Emerita Choirmistress is (we hope temporarily) out of action anyway so whether as her deputy as in previous years
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