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In Touch

April – May 2018

Registered Charity No. SC014203

St Mary’s

Church,

Dalmahoy

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In Touch St Mary’s Church – Dalmahoy

Who’s Who

Bishop

The Rt Revd Dr John Armes Diocesan Office 21a Grosvenor Crescent Edinburgh EH12 5EL Tel: 0131 538 7033

Ministry Team

Revd Christine Downey Rector

Tel: 0131 335 0185

Email: [email protected]

Geoff Angell Administration/Planning/Communication

Ella Henderson Outreach

Claire Starr Pastoral Care

Mandy Smart Spiritual Nurture / Education & Growth

Rosie Mann Worship

Liturgical Assistants

Revd Janet Dyer

Rona Finlayson

Steve Haigh

Denis King

Claire Starr

Administrator Paula McCall 0131 333 1683 [email protected]

Sunday Circle Claire Starr 0131 449 3045 [email protected]

Wedding Co-ordinator Carole MacBride 07909 582760 [email protected]

Rector’s Warden Alan Coupe 0131 449 4196 [email protected]

People’s Warden Caroline Gunn 0131 443 4059 [email protected]

Organist & Choirmaster Alan Phillips 07950 276995 [email protected]

Patron The Earl of Morton [email protected]

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St Mary’s Church – Dalmahoy In Touch

In this issue Page

Who’s Who 2 & 33

Pastoral Letter from Christine 4

From the Editor 6

From the Registers 7

The Easter Garden 8

Future Dates for Your Diary 9

Bill Rutherford 10

Gunhild Anna Clara Newton 11

Breadmaking and Blethering –Lent Activity Day 14

Mission to Seafarers 15

Dalmations 15

On Weddings in Spring 16

Seen on Facebook 17

Sunday Readings 18

Faith Lunch in Pictures 20

How Passion Flowers got their Name 21

Organist’s Corner 22

Organ Music in April and May 25

Diary of Events 27

Provincial Welcome Day 30

Sunday Humour 31

Children’s Section 32

Holy Week and Easter at St Mary’s – 2018 Back cover

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Pastoral Letter from Christine+

Dear Friends,

As I look out at the slowly changing condition of the garden – daffodils and snowdrops beginning to bloom – I see clearly a metaphor for who we are as Christians. We are a changeable and inconsistent people in love with an unchanging, magnificent and impossibly patient God.

The one thing we can never do for ourselves is redeem ourselves and for that Jesus was born and Jesus died and rose again in awesome mystery.

Just as we had begun to wonder if spring would ever conquer the dark winter, we can also feel during the season of Lent that the darkness on our own souls will never be healed. But as I have said many times; we stand in darkness but with our faces turned to the ever-brightening dawn where all things are revealed in the light, which chases away our fears and cleanses us of our sin.

Lent is the season of giving of oneself – of sacrificial giving; this is reflected in the special services that are offered for you. Please plan to attend one or two you have never experienced before. Our Episcopal heritage is found in our rich liturgy; I invite you to attend and engage in creating this wonderful community.

Jesus invites us to walk with Him into our full person-hood as God has made us – don’t hold back,

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give all to Jesus as he has given to us even unto death.

Joy immeasurable has broken upon the world and our response can only be joy, gratitude and praise. I urge you to invite others to one of our services to share this message of love to the world. Maybe find the person who used to sit in the pew in front or behind you and reconnect with them, ask if they need a ride to one of the services, a visit from me, or if they would like a visit from one of our Pastoral Team.

Easter is the season of rebirth and renewal, giving and growth, and in the sacrifice of giving we are assured that life is eternal and love is immortal and we need never again be alone.

May the Joy and Love of this season of Easter fill you with the knowledge that God has always and will always love you.

Happy Easter.

Christine+ [Editor: The photographs were taken around the Rectory]

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From the Editor

Thank you to all our contributors for this edition. I was quite worried about this edition as by mid-day on the deadline date I had only received one half-page article! With relief, we now have a fairly full magazine. Please do write and share any type of information with other members of the congregation.

Copy for the June-July issue of ‘In Touch’ will be welcomed at any time from now until the deadline of Sunday, 13th May 2018.

John Blaber

A reminder that, as usual from the beginning of April, our Wednesday Said Eucharist returns to the Church.

More information and up-to-date details can be found on our website

www.stmarysdalmahoy.org.uk

Cover photo: Quilt by Georgina Chapman,

hanging behind St Mary’s pulpit.

The editor reserves the right to omit or edit contributions. Items may have to be reserved for future issues.

The views expressed in this magazine are personal, and not necessarily those of the editor or congregation.

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From the Registers

Baptisms

February 11th Peggy Frances Hutchison

March 3rd Ailsa Wilson

Weddings

March 23rd Mary Boyle and Andrew Turner

Funerals

February 7th Anna Newton

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Please submit articles to: [email protected]

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The Easter Garden

Why an Easter Garden?

The rationale behind the creation of an Easter Garden is simple. We use flowers to say thank-you, to say sorry, to show love and to say many other things as well – all of which would be relevant here. In creating the garden, we don't need to use words to express these feelings which is just as well because what words would be adequate or could express sufficiently what we feel about what happened on Good Friday? All ages can work together and everybody is free to do whatever they like in the way of bringing flowers, planting or embellishing. One year, Jamie used a small pink, plastic pig to make the scene more interesting, a feature which many enjoyed.

When?

At any time on Good Friday or Holy Saturday. A group of whoever wants to be there starts at 10:00 am on Good Friday morning, preparing the soil and doing some basic structuring and initial planting. Somebody will make a small, rough cross from two sticks which we place behind the Calvary rock. When we have finished, we simply offer the garden as a small gesture of gratitude. Tea etc. is available in the hall to refresh the workers afterwards. The work does not end here. We close the tomb at three o’clock, but the planting carries on through that day and the next. I will leave a small trowel and a watering can behind the tomb for people to use to put in any plants just where they would like to see them – something from your own garden perhaps? Just come when you can. Any time is the right time. If for any reason you find it difficult to put in plants yourself, just leave them next to the trowel behind the tomb and someone will put them in for you. Hopefully, the bulbs which the children put in at Harvest should be up and flowering too, although the names on the labels have faded.

Very often visitors stroll round the grounds when the church is closed and the Easter Garden provides a small focal point at which they can stop and pray. It also provokes curiosity as to what exactly it is. Somebody once thought it was a pets' graveyard. A nice thought!

Ella Henderson

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A previous Easter Garden at St Mary’s

Future Dates for Your Diary

Saturday, 28th April 2018

All congregations of churches in the Diocese are invited to meet in St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, for a great celebration of our life together. More details will be given soon, but the event will include creative worship, food, workshops, all-age activities and a marketplace

of resources. It is an opportunity to get together, learn from each other and celebrate the next stage of ‘Growing Together’. It is sure to be a joyful occasion for all ages.

Friday, 7th September 2018, at 7:30 pm

Dr Carol Williams from the USA will give a very welcome return Organ Concert in St Mary’s.

Further details will follow closer to the date.

Please keep an eye on our website for updates on both of these and other events.

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Bill Rutherford

75 years, is a very long time! But William “Bill” Rutherford has this past month received his 75-year pin from the Royal Air Force.

From Wartime service to invaluable service in the community after the war, Bill has always been a talented leader. Whether setting up a movie theatre in Singapore during the war, or founding the Rotary Club of Edinburgh after the war, many over his 90+ years have recognized his generous leadership. We thank you for your dedication to community building and to the church.

Bless you Bill!

Christine+

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Gunhild Anna Clara Newton, 1933-2018

Gunhild Anna Clara O’Reilly was born just before Christmas 1933 in Acton, the eldest of the three children of Walter O’Reilly and Gudrun Stavenhagen. As Anna’s mother was from Hamburg she was brought up speaking a mixture of German and English, however as the war approached both the German language and her Germanic first name were dropped. As war approached, Gudrun refused to allow her children to be evacuated so the family moved to the relative safety of Staines to the west of London, although Anna had memories of watching the glow in the sky from London burning. Despite the near miss of a V2 landing at the end of the street, she lived there with her brothers, Robert and Tony, for the rest of her childhood. She attended Ashford County Grammar School until she was 16 and she then paid for herself to go to secretarial college. Thereafter she briefly worked as a clerical assistant in a factory before landing a secretarial post for a firm of stockbrokers in the City. During this time, she met Roy Grainge through the church that they both attended and in 1953 they married. On her 21st birthday she was told that she was expecting twins and about six weeks later Deborah and Janice arrived. Roy was commissioned into the RAF shortly after and had to go off to do his basic training, leaving Anna living in a caravan with no electricity, washing machine or fridge and two tiny babies. It is a testament to her character that she just carried on as if this was nothing unusual.

Life in the RAF resulted in a constant stream of moves, living in married quarters and hirings across Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Middlesex. The family were joined by three more children, Nigel,

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Sarah and Jessica. In 1967 the family embarked on a great adventure as Roy was sent on an officer exchange to Washington DC where the family lived for three years. This must have been a huge upheaval to pack up a family of five children, aged between 3 and 12, and take them off on the RMS Queen Mary – at a time when most people didn’t even go to Europe! All of Anna’s children look back on this time in America with a rosy glow. There was a constant round of entertaining, attending Embassy functions, Anna sewing most of the clothes for the girls and herself, and long camping trips during which they visited twenty-six states and Canada and travelled as far west as the Rocky Mountains and Grand Canyon.

The 1970s were a period of upheaval for Anna. Roy left the RAF and they ultimately moved to Edinburgh. She returned to work in a series of secretarial posts and as the elder children left home, the marriage began to dissolve. By 1979 she had moved to Livingston and was beginning a new phase of her life.

She met Bill Newton when they both worked at Napier College Students Association. He was a widower with four children, Heather, Graham, Andrew and Alasdair, and it wasn’t long before Anna took on a mothering role for them. Anna and Bill married in 1985 in St Mary’s Dalmahoy and were devoted to each other until Bill’s sudden death just before Christmas 2016. They travelled extensively throughout their time together, taking their beloved caravan all across Europe as far south as Naples. There were frequent trips into England, up to the Highlands and visiting cousins in Germany. They took Bill’s boys to Norway and visited Nigel in America. Between

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them they had seventeen grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Despite this huge family, Anna still found time to indulge her passion for music. She sang in choirs and musical societies throughout her life and loved to perform in operas such as The Bartered Bride, Die Fledermaus, numerous Gilbert and Sullivan operettas and oratorios such as Carmina Burana, The Messiah, Verdi’s Requiem and Fauré’s Requiem as well as with the church choir. As she grew older and found less energy to sing herself, she and Bill enjoyed attending concerts and especially loved André Rieu concerts, travelling to Maastricht to watch his orchestra.

Anna was a great cook. She baked endlessly throughout her children’s childhoods and even baked Jessica’s wedding cake. She was always willing to experiment with new foods and flavours long before they became fashionable. All of her children learned cooking skills from working alongside her in the kitchen and they all carry fond memories of their own favourite dishes.

In typical Anna fashion she stoically carried on despite the blows of Bill’s death which was followed all too quickly by a cancer diagnosis. She used the time to organise herself, go to concerts, take care of her beloved cat, spend time with family and even to buy a new car. Her highlight of the last year was undoubtedly the week she spent in the Black Isle when Nigel took her up to stay with his son and daughter-in-law. Her only regret will be that she didn’t live long enough to see the birth of their baby.

Jessica Bryce

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Breadmaking and Blethering – Lent Activity Day

On Saturday, 10th March, the day before Mothering Sunday, some of us met in the morning in the Douglas Hall to bake bread and share the fellowship of work and laughter.

Claire had found some interesting recipes for us to bake so we set to with flour and yeast, oil and salt, mixing and kneading.

When the dough was proving, we made up posies of flowers and herbs for the Mothering Sunday service the next day.

We went back to knead the bread and bake the loaves and rolls.

While they were baking, we had soup and homemade bread for lunch, with some lovely cake made by Claire.

As can be seen from the photographs, the bread and rolls came out of the oven brown and

beautifully golden.

A good time was had by all!

Rosie Mann

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Mission to Seafarers

Revd Timothy Tunley’s Experience.

You may remember that Timothy Tunley (Chaplain for the Mission in Scotland), was to be with us in the Autumn, but found himself during October and November, on a 40-metre yacht off the coast of Bangladesh, taking supplies to the Rohingya

refugees in the camp at Chittagong.

The converted yacht – Phoenix – now a rescue vessel, was taking grain, oil and sugar to aid the rescue effort of 600,000 displaced persons in the camp. He had joined the crew in Sri Lanka, and the yacht had taken 5 days to reach their destination. During that time he got to know the crew, who went out of their way to welcome him aboard, and learnt of the harrowing experiences they had previously had picking up refugees (dead and alive) from the waters of the Mediterranean. He then stayed on and helped in the camp.

He concludes by saying “it is one thing to be told about someone’s experiences of being at sea, but it is another to see and experience life at sea itself, something that we should all be mindful of”.

(Extracted from the March/April edition of “The Sea”, the Mission to Seafarers bi-monthly magazine).

Geoff Angell

Dalmations

Only one more meeting this season!

Please do come along and join in the fun. We meet for the 11:00 am Said Eucharist, followed by coffee in the Douglas Hall.

Wednesday 25th April. ‘Feather Finesse’ will demonstrate their unusual and original paintings on feathers.

This will be followed by a lunch of soup and a pudding.

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On Weddings in Spring The Rectory St. James the Least of All My dear Nephew Darren,

Just as undertakers rub their hands in glee at the coming of Winter frosts, so hoteliers with banqueting suites become animated at the first signs of Spring. We have arrived at the first phase of the marriage season. As the days begin to lengthen and trees start to bud, young men find it irresistible not to propose to potential brides. Some people wait to hear the first cuckoo to let them know Spring is on its way; I wait to hear the first knock on the Rectory door from couples wanting to book their wedding.

Naturally, my first job is to try to put them off; it would save them a great deal of money and give me many more free Saturdays. But I always fail, and so the big day is booked. Nowadays, there is such a time lag between booking a marriage service and it taking place, I sometimes think it would be easier to book the service first and then look for someone to marry at a later, more convenient, time.

Last year, it was somewhat different with one couple. They were both in their late eighties (a good time to contemplate a first marriage, in my opinion) and asked if they could arrange to get married as soon as possible. The usual reason for a hurried marriage seemed unlikely at their age and so I asked why. Their answer was charming: “At our age, we might not still be here if the great day is much delayed.”

Of course, booking a marriage is the simplest part of the whole procedure. There are florists to negotiate with - made even more complex should there be more than one marriage that day. One bride wants all white, the other red, and so one set of priceless flowers is trundled out of church by one set of florists while a competitor barrows in the next confection.

Photographers are inclined to think aisles are racetracks, pews for standing on and that all church furniture is moveable – generally once the service has started! I place all photographers in the west gallery before the service and lock them in – apologising for my fit of absentmindedness afterwards.

Courses should be offered at theological colleges on placating irate bell-ringers when the bride is half-an-hour late, cooling down organists when the happy couple ask to come in to an organ arrangement of a Led Zepplin number, and re-assuring the choir that the guests meant no disrespect as they made mobile phone calls in church while the choir sang Ave Maria, once we had disappeared to sign the registers.

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However, nothing will ever calm down a verger who has been left to sweep up several hundredweights of confetti once everyone else has gone home. Personally, I find a restorative sherry back at the rectory works wonders.

Your loving uncle,

Eustace

Seen on Facebook

"Where are we going Piglet?" asked Pooh.

"We need to get supplies," said Piglet. "For the snow."

"Ah," said Pooh, nodding in understanding. "Things like bread, and milk, and snow shovels, and cat litter even though we don't have a cat, because it's meant to be good in Icy Conditions."

Piglet did a little laugh, and a sort of leap, and caught a few snowflakes on the tip of his tongue. "No," said Piglet. "No, those aren't the sort of snow supplies we need at all. What we need are family sized bags of chocolate buttons, and chips with dips, and a freezer full of stuffed crust pizzas, and all of the red wine that we can possibly carry, so that when we get snowed in we won't mind it even slightly. THOSE are snow supplies."

All of a sudden, Pooh thought that the snow didn't seem quite so wet, nor the air so cold, and actually, getting snowed in with Piglet and their snow supplies really didn't sound such a terrible thing after all. "Oh Piglet," said Pooh. "I really do think you are a Very Wise Animal."

Credit: IKINTST. Spotted by Ted Tracey-Bower

Can anyone remind me which page of the Bible explains how to turn water into wine – I need it for a party tonight!

Requested by Facebooker Alan Watson. Spotted by Margaret Scott

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Sunday Readings:

For the latest information see our website www.stmarysdalmahoy.org.uk

Year B Eucharist

(Year B2 for Morning Prayer)

First Reading

1 April Easter Sunday Day of Resurrection

Isaiah 25: 6-9 Psalm 114

8 April 2nd of Easter Acts 4: 32-35

15 April 3rd of Easter Acts 3: 12-19

22 April 4th of Easter The Good Shepherd

Acts 4: 5-12 Psalm 23

29 April 5th of Easter Acts 8: 26-40

6 May 6th of Easter Acts 10: 44-48

13 May 7th of Easter Acts 1: 15-17, 21-26

20 May Day of Pentecost Acts 2: 1-21

27 May Trinity Sunday Isaiah 6: 1-8

3 June Pentecost 2 1 Samuel 3: 1-10, (11-20)

10 June Pentecost 3 1 Samuel 8: 4-20, (11: 14-15)

17 June Pentecost 4 1 Samuel 15: 34 – 16: 13

24 June Pentecost 5 1 Samuel 17: 57 – 18:5, 10-16

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April - June


Second Reading Gospel

1 Corinthians 5: 6b-8 Luke 24: 13-49

1 John 1: 1 – 2: 2 John 20: 19-31

1 John 3: 1-7 Luke 24: 36b-48

1 John 3: 16-24 John 10: 11-18

1 John 4: 7-21 John 15: 1-8

1 John 5: 1-6 John 15: 9-17

1 John 5: 9-13 John 17: 6-19

Romans 8: 22-27 John 15: 26-27, 16: 4b-15

Romans 8: 12-17 John 3: 1-17

2 Corinthians 4: 5-12 Mark 2: 23 – 3: 6

2 Corinthians 4: 13 – 5:1 Mark 3: 20-35

2 Corinthians 5: 6-10, (11-13) 14-17 Mark 4: 26-34

2 Corinthians 6: 1-13 Mark 4: 35-41

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Faith Lunch in Pictures – Sunday 28th January

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How Passion Flowers got their Name

Why is the passion flower known as the passion flower? This beautiful climbing plant that grows in many of our gardens is not native to the UK but comes from South America. It was first discovered by Spanish missionaries working there, centuries ago. Drawings were sent back to Europe, and in 1609 an Italian priest interpreted the flower to represent The Passion of Christ.

He decided that the five petals and five sepals could represent the ten disciples who remained steadfast (Judas Iscariot and Peter both abandoned Jesus). The corona, which can number more than a

hundred radial filaments could be seen as Jesus’ crown of thorns. The tendrils represent the whips used in the flagellation of Christ. The three stigmas or styles represent the three nails, the pointed tips of the leaves represent the lance

and the five stamens could be seen as the number of wounds Jesus received (four by the nails and one by the lance).

With acknowledgements to Parish Pump and Wikipedia.

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♫ Organist's Corner ♫

by Alan John Phillips

Pitch Inspection

'For else the theme too high doth seem for mortal tongue'

Before the nineteenth century there was no effort made to standardise musical pitch. Even after the invention of the tuning fork ca.1711, the frequency of middle A could vary dramatically. For example, a tuning fork associated with Handel, dating from 1751, is pitched at A = 422.5 Hz (Hertz, or cycles per second), while a later one from 1780 is pitched at A=409 Hz, about a quarter-tone lower. Towards the end of the 18th century the frequency of middle A varied within the general range of 400 to 450 Hz.

However, the pitch of instrumental music became higher and higher, and at at least two periods in history became so high that reform was necessary.

The first was at the beginning of the 17th century, when Michael Praetorius reported in his treatise 'Syntagma musicum' (1614-20) that pitch levels had become so high that singers were experiencing severe throat strain and lutenists and viol players were complaining of snapped strings. Evidence shows that the pitch was about a minor third higher than modern concert pitch. When instruments and singers performed together, the music had to be written in different keys, that for the choir and organ being called 'Chorton' and that for the instrumentalists 'Kammerton' (ca. A=570.7Hz). This custom lasted for about 200 years. 'Father' Bernard Smith's organ at Durham Cathedral was tuned to a pitch of A=474.1 in 1683, and so was his Chapel Royal organ of 1708.

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The advent of the orchestra as an independent (as opposed to accompanying) ensemble at the beginning of the 19th century brought pitch inflation to the fore for a second time. The rise in pitch during this time can be seen reflected in contemporary tuning forks. An 1815 tuning fork from the Dresden opera house gives A=423.2 Hz, while an 1826 fork from the same opera house gives A=435 Hz. Sir George Smart introduced a pitch of A=433 for the London Philharmonic Society in 1820, and the organ of St. Paul's Cathedral in London had a pitch of A=444.6Hz in 1877. At La Scala in Milan, middle A rose as high as 451Hz.

Unsurprisingly, the strongest opponents of the upward tendency in pitch were singers, who complained that it was putting a strain on their voices. Largely due to their protests, the French government passed a law on 16 February 1859, which set the A above middle C at 435 Hz. This was the first attempt to standardize pitch on such a scale, and was known as the 'diapason normal'.

British attempts at standardisation in the 19th century gave rise to the high Old Philharmonic pitch standard of about A=452.5 Hz / C=540Hz (different sources quote slightly different values), first mentioned in 1846, which was replaced in 1896 by the considerably 'deflated' New Philharmonic pitch at A=439 Hz. The high pitch was maintained by Sir Michael Costa for the Crystal Palace Handel Festivals, causing the withdrawal of the principal tenor Sims Reeves in 1877, though at singers' insistence the Birmingham Festival pitch was lowered (and the organ re-tuned) at that time. At the Queen's Hall in London, the establishment of the French diapason normal for the Promenade Concerts in 1895 (and re-tuning of the organ to A=435.5 at 15 °C (59 °F), to be in tune with A=439 in a heated hall) caused the Royal Philharmonic Society and others to adopt the lower pitch thereafter.

The Stuttgart Conference of 1834 recommended C=264 (A=440) as the standard pitch based on Scheibler's studies with his Tonometer. For this reason, A=440 has been referred to as Stuttgart pitch or Scheibler pitch. In 1939, an international conference recommended that the Scheibler pitch be adopted as the international standard, and this is now known internationally as 'concert pitch'. As a technical standard this was taken up by the International Organization for Standardization in 1955 and reaffirmed by them in 1975 as ISO 16.

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Our organ at St. Mary's, by David Hamilton ca.1840, was built at the time when the high 'Old Philharmonic' pitch was the norm, and the pitch of the instrument has never been changed. Therefore, the organ continues to sound about one semitone higher than modern concert pitch. For example, if the middle C key is depressed, the sound which comes out is actually C sharp.

In common with their predecessors of the 17th and 19th centuries, people singing to our organ notice a strain in their voices if hymns are played in their usual printed keys. So transposition is the only way to bring the pitch down to a more comfortable level. Thankfully, not all books print hymn tunes in the same key, so a search for lower versions is possible. Hymns Ancient and Modern published a Transposed Tune Book with their Revised Edition in 1950, printing the tunes at least a tone lower than in the main book. We have one under the organ bench, and is a great help in coping with the high pitch of the instrument. More modern hymn books now print tunes in lower keys, so are another source for a comfort zone.

Ralph Vaughan Williams, in his Musical Preface to the 1906 'English Hymnal', comments: 'The pitch of all the tunes has been fixed as low as possible for the sake of mixed congregations. Except in the case of tunes with an extended compass the highest note is not above D or E. Some choirmasters may object to this on the ground that it places the hymns in the worst part of the boy-chorister's voice, and that it takes the basses and altos rather low. The obvious answer is that hymns are essentially for the congregation; the choir have their opportunity elsewhere, but in the hymn they must give way to the congregation, and it is a great mistake to suppose that the result will be inartistic.'

D or E on our organ corresponds to written D flat or E flat, so Vaughan Williams gives us a good practical guideline to choosing a written

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version to play from, and in many cases his own 'English Hymnal' itself provides the lowest option.

Organ Music in April and May Sunday 8 April – Easter 2

Prelude: Fugue no.1 - Thomas Roseingrave (1688-1766) Communion: Pavana – Thomas Morley (ca.1557-1602)

Postlude: Fancy (July 8, 1647) – Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656)

Sunday 15 April – Easter 3 Prelude: Master Tallis's Testament – Herbert Howells (1892-1983)

Communion: Lantana ('Plymouth Suite') – Percy Whitlock (1903-46) Postlude: Paean – Herbert Howells

Sunday 22 April – Easter 4 Prelude: Préambule (Psalm 23:2) – Percy Whitlock

Communion: Pastorale (Psalm 23:1) – Percy Whitlock Postlude: Psalm-Prelude Set 1 no.3 (Psalm 23:4) – Herbert Howells

Sunday 29 April – Easter 5 Prelude: Lobe den Herren – Max Reger (1873-1916)

Communion: Pastorale – Max Reger Postlude: Toccata and Fugue in D minor – Max Reger

Sunday 6 May – Easter 6 Three Preludes founded on Welsh Hymn Tunes (1920) Prelude: Hyfrydol – Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Communion: Rhosymedre – Ralph Vaughan Williams Postlude: Bryn Calfaria – Ralph Vaughan Williams

Sunday 13 May – Easter 7 Prelude: Prière du Christ montant vers son Père ('L'Ascension') –

Olivier Messiaen (1908-92) Communion: Berceuse – Louis Vierne (1870-1937)

Postlude: March on a theme of Handel – Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)

Sunday 20 May - Pentecost Veni Creator – Nicolas de Grigny (1672-1703) Preludes: 1. En taille à 5; 2. Fugue à 5; 3. Duo

Communion: 4. Récit de cromorne Postlude: 5. Dialogue sur les grands jeux

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Sunday 27 May – Trinity Sunday Prelude: Prelude in E flat (BWV 552) – Johann Sebastian Bach

(1685-1750) Communion: Gloria tibi Trinitas – John Blitheman (ca.1525-1591)

Postlude: Fugue in E flat ('St. Anne' BWV 552) – J S Bach

♪All God's critters got a place in the choir♪

Choir practice at St. Mary's every Sunday morning at 8.55 a.m. (yes, that early!) from the first Sunday in August to Easter, with performances at Harvest, Christmas Carol Service and Easter.

Altos, tenors and basses especially welcome. Plenty of room in the nest!

PRACTICES START UP AGAIN ON SUNDAY, 5TH AUGUST

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Diary of Events: Easter Sunday – End May 2018

Date Times Venue Event

Please see the back cover for details of all Holy Week Services

Sun 1 April

6:30 am

8:55 am

10:00 am

10:30 am

At coffee

At coffee

Church

Church

Church

Church

Hall

Hall

Dawn Eucharist

Choir Practice

Morning Prayer

Sung Eucharist

Collection of groceries/toiletries for St Salvador’s Food Bank

Fair Trade Stall

Mon 2 April 7:30 pm Hall Vestry Meeting

Wed 4 April 11:00 am Church Said Eucharist

Sat 7 April 1:00 pm Church Wedding of Caroline Gibson and Mark Carruthers

Sun 8 April 2nd of Easter

10:00 am

10:30 am

Church

Church

Morning Prayer

Sung Eucharist


Sun 15 April 3rd of Easter

10:00 am

10:30 am

At coffee

2:00 pm

Church

Church

Hall

Church

Said Eucharist

Sung Eucharist

Fair Trade Stall

Wedding of Jackie Campbell and Joseph O’Neill

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Diary of Events (continued)



Sun 22 April

10:00 am

10:30 am

Church

Church

Good Shepherd Sunday

Morning Prayer

Sung Eucharist

Wed 25 April

11:00 am

12 noon

Church

Hall

Said Eucharist

Dalmations – ‘Feather Finesse’ Demonstration of Feather Art

Fri 27 April TBA Church Wedding of Tamara Hepperger and Fraser McKay

Sat 28 April 10:00 am

to 2:30 pm

Edinbrg Cath’drl

“The Big Day”

For full info see the Diary Page on St Mary’s website

Sun 29 April 5th of Easter

10:00 am

10:30 am

Church

Church

Morning Prayer

Sung Eucharist

Wed 2 May 11:00 am Church Said Eucharist

Sat 5 May 1:30 pm Church Wedding of Adele Crowther and Michael Willoughby

Sun 6 May 6th of Easter

10:00 am

10:30 am

At coffee

At coffee

Church

Church

Hall

Hall

Morning Prayer

Sung Eucharist

Collection of groceries/toiletries for St Salvador’s Food Bank

Fair Trade Stall

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Mon 7 May 7:30 pm Hall Vestry Meeting

Wed 9 May 11:00 am Hall Said Eucharist

Sat 12 May TBA Church Wedding of Mairi Benson and Colin Fleming

Sun 13 May 7th of Easter

10:00 am

10:30 am

Church

Church

Morning Prayer

Sung Eucharist

Deadline for ‘In Touch’ articles


Fri 18 May TBA Church Wedding of Julie Edgeworth and Craig Fisher

Sun 20 May

10:00 am

10:30 am

At coffee

TBA

Church

Church

Hall

Church

Morning Prayer

Sung Eucharist

Fair Trade Stall

Wedding of Hanna Little and David Fettes


Sat 26 May TBA Church Wedding of Fiona Tevendale and Lewis Gray

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Provincial Welcome Day

On Tuesday, 27th February, Christine attended a Provincial Welcome Day for new clergy with our Primus, the Most Revd Mark Strange [on the left].


Sun 27 May Trinity Sunday

10:00 am

10:30 am

TBA

Church

Church

Church

Morning Prayer

Sung Eucharist

Wedding of Jane Pearson and Andrew Browning


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Sunday Humour

It was a posh parish. Over drinks in the church hall, the church warden informed the visiting archdeacon: “My family can trace its ancestry back to William the Conqueror.”

“Well,” ventured the archdeacon with a smile, “my ancestors were in the Ark with Noah.”

“Well, mine weren't,” came the quick reply. “My people had a boat of their own.” ..........

Sidesman to newcomer at church door: “Good morning. How far down do you wish to sit?”

Baffled newcomer: “Well, all the way, of course.” ……….

“The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they are genuine.” - St Paul. ……….

Today, I was in the bathroom at a popular coffee chain. Someone had written “What Would Jesus Do?” on the wall. Another person had added, directly underneath: “Wash His hands.”

Then a third person wrote: “And your feet.” ……….

Some people are scared of church like they are scared of helicopters – they are frightened of being sucked into the rotas. ……….

English easy? Read on:

1) The bandage was wound around the wound. 2) The farm was used to produce produce. 3) We must polish the Polish furniture. 4) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert. 5) Since there is no time like the present, he decided it was time to present the present to his wife. 6) A sea bass was painted on the head of the bass drum. 7) The insurance was invalid for the invalid. 8) They were too close to the door to close it. 9) After having done some sewing, a sewer fell into a sewer. 10) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear. 11) The horse wasn’t used to be used to pull a cart.

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Children’s Section Colour-in your own Easter Garden.

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Who’s Who (continued from Page 2)

Vestry

Secretary Rosie Fyfe 07951 126684 [email protected]

Treasurer Gavin Craig 01506 891538 [email protected]

Rector’s Warden Alan Coupe 0131 449 4196

People’s Warden Caroline Gunn 0131 443 4059

Lay Representative Ted Tracey-Bower 0131 449 5312

Alt. Lay Representative Rosie Mann 0131 442 1340

Geoff Angell 0131 315 2639

Rona Finlayson 07955 922000

Carole MacBride 07909 582760

Jane Russell 0131 441 2346

Douglas Walker 07854 105407

Altar Guild

Co-ordinator Denis King 01506 873061

Mavis Blackwell 0131 449 4711


Val Lawrie 0131 333 1718

Child Protection & Caroline Gunn 0131 443 4059

Vulnerable Adults [email protected]

Co-ordinator

Covenants Secretary Geoff Angell 0131 315 2639

Fabric Co-ordinator Rosemary Procter 0131 333 1756

Head Server Denis King 01506 873061

Hall Bookings Paula McCall 0131 333 1683 [email protected]

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Pastoral Visitors

Lois May Donaldson 0131 449 4279

Janice Goodfellow 01506 495082

Irina Grigolava 07796 305789

Derek & Ella Henderson 0131 449 2262

Margaret Hunter 01506 410761

Denis King 01506 873061

Margaret King 01506 442549

Carole MacBride 07909 582760

Olive Metcalfe 01506 204185

Rosemary Procter 0131 3331756

Jane Russell 0131 441 2346

Claire Starr 0131 449 3045

Sunday Stewards

First Sunday Richmond Davies 01506 652343

Second Sunday Wilma Brown 01506 440292

Third Sunday Irina Grigolava 07796 305789

Fourth Sunday Jane Russell 0131 441 2346

Fifth Sunday Alan Coupe 0131 449 4196

Transport

If you need transport to or from church on Sunday, please contact the steward for that Sunday.

Postal Address

Church Office, St Mary’s Church Hall,

Dalmahoy, Kirknewton, EH27 8EB

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Prayer Chain

Myrtle Burnett 0131 449 2760

Margaret Donaldson 01506 466522

Janet Dyer 0131 449 3767


John & Claire Starr 0131 449 3045

‘In Touch’ Editor

John Blaber [email protected]

01555 663910

Website Administration

John Blaber [email protected]

Service Times

Sunday Morning Prayer 10:00 am

Sung Eucharist 10:30 am

Last Sunday of month Evening Prayer 6:30 pm

Wednesday Said Eucharist 11:00 am

Church Open Times

Monday & Friday – 9:30 am to 10:00 am for quiet reflection and prayer.

Wednesdays – 11:30 am to 12:30 pm following the 11:00 am service.

Saturdays – 10:00 am to 3:00 pm from beginning of May to the end of September except during Wedding ceremonies.

Copy date for the June - July

Issue is Sunday 13th May

mailto:[email protected]

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Holy Week and Easter Services – 2018

Palm 10:00 am Morning Prayer

Sunday 10:30 am Sung Eucharist with Blessing

25th March and Procession of Palms

Monday 07:30 pm Compline

Tuesday 07:30 pm Compline

Wednesday 11:00 am Said Eucharist

07:30 pm Compline

Maundy 07:30 pm Sung Eucharist with

Thursday Foot Washing

Good 10:00 am Re-Making our Easter

Friday Garden

02:00 pm Stations of the Cross

with hymns (about 1 hr)

07:30 pm Meditation on the Cross

Holy 08:30 pm Easter Vigil and Renewal

Saturday of Baptismal Vows

Easter Day 06:30 am Dawn Eucharist

1st April 10:00 am Morning Prayer

10:30 am Family Sung Eucharist

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