The Fredösphere

I neglected my weekly updates of the Psalm Chant page for the last two months as I focused on getting the Maundy Thursday music ready.  Now the Psalms are back with a new one for this Sunday, April 3.  I expect weekly updates will be more regular for the foreseeable future.

Someone named Luke at James Madison University has sent out this cri de choeur:

I am in the inaugural semester of an auditioned treble chorus.  We are attempting to come up with a name to separate it from the University Chorus that it was taken out of. Currently 'University Chorale' and 'Madison Singers' are taken. I am at James Madison University in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. We perform a wide range of styles, but the main emphasis is classical.  Our final
concert is in 3 weeks, and I'd love to have our new name for the program. Any ideas are greatly appreciated.

Ooooooh, this could be fun.  I still entertain the vain hope that this favorite of mine will someday be picked up by some group:

Tragicomic Flatulence

but somehow I feel it just wouldn't be worth sending it in.  So how about it, team?  Who else is more qualified than us for this job?  Send serious suggestions to Luke, but please, let's keep the more, uh, creative ideas confined to the comments section of this post.  If you feel you can't resist troubling Luke with your silliness, then at a minimum, you didn't hear about this from me, 'kay?  'Kay.

Finally, I noticed in the news a list of music selected for Prince Charles' upcoming wedding.  I see it included choral selections, some obvious, some not.  (Choral music at a Brittish royal wedding -- who woulda thunk!)  They didn't choose Tavener's Song For Athene, which surprised me, since it seemed to be so popular the last time they had it sung.