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Derry's St Columb's Cathedral to host special exhibition commemorating St Brigid

All Things Bright and Beautiful is irritating and repetitive – these hymns are much more uplifting

Organist Lord Lisvane dreads the song being picked at weddings and I don’t blame him. Try these soul-searching alternatives instead

Bright and beautiful? Hymn is depressing, organist peer groans

The old favourite, beloved of school assemblies, weddings and church services, should have been left in the Victorian era, Lord Lisvane says in a letter to The Times

Brass, Reeds, and Percussion: December 23, 2023

This edition of Brass, Reeds, and Percussion, features Christmas wind band music, both secular and religious. One of the featured tunes is \“Greensleeves,\” probably the oldest song that musicologists have been able to identify. You will also hear a Christmas song that holds the record for taking the longest for a recording to make it to the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. But since it is still Advent, Brass, Reeds, and Percussion opens with two Advent hymns. The words for the first hymn, \“Lo, He Comes in Clouds Descending,\” were written by John Wesley, the founder of Methodism; the music was written by Martin Madan, a lawyer converted to Methodism upon hearing one of Wesley’s sermons.

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