Church Musicians

[poliphilo]

Church Musicians Window, King's Heath, Birmingham

My pictures of the wedding were sub par, so I'm not posting any. If you're working in a dark building and you choose (for aesthetic reasons) to avoid flash you have to hope that your subjects will stay still and your hand won't shake. Sometimes you get lucky; this time I didn't. Never mind, the official photos will be fabulous.

This is my only success. I thought it might interest the church musicians among you. The window commemorates Leslie George White who was organist at Cambridge Rd Methodist Church for 63 years- from 1897 to 1960. He's sitting at the keyboard with his heroes towering above him. I love it how Charles Wesley gets to be the main man, with Bach and Handel as his sidekicks.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I've not had a lot to do with Methodism. My view of it as drearily respectable has been shaken this past week by my encounter with a bunch of ribald, lesbian ministers and elders.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

"Drearily respectable": yes, that sums them up nicely. It's entirely possible that my own views might be shaken, if I got a closer look. Still, don't think I could ever get used to grape-juice communion and over here they're still rejecting gays and lesbians, with some observers saying the church may split, first.

One of my facebook friends is not only active in the Methodist Church, but even works for them, and he's no doubt at least as progressive and liberal as I am and a damned sight more lovable. My mother says that her church now does an early, informal service at which you're free to attend in bluejeans and a teeshirt, should you be inclined. Apparently, it is very well attended and not just by the young.