SONG, DANCE AND CHIMES.

Healthy numbers this morning as well as confidence in our parts, meant that our ALLELUYA was one of the best I've heard from the group. The glad sound was a good and fond welcome back for a member who's recovering from illness.

JULIAN OF NORWICH literally moved forward today when our circle dancing member led us in a delightful dance while we sang.
Later, raising the pitch a minor third, we practised a chiming ostinato on glockenspiels and xylophones which accompanied the tune on the flute and next week the aim is to put the song, dance and instrumental together in a single piece.
Now that's something to look forward to!

A SONG FOR THE DAFFODILS

Loud are the bells of Norwich
And the people come and go
Here by the tower of Julian
I tell them what I know.


Ring out bells of Norwich and let the winter come and go.
All shall be well again, I know.


Love like a yellow daffodil
Is coming through the snow,
Love like a yellow daffodil
Is Lord of all I know.

On this beautiful sunny morning we revived Sydney Carter's song from 1981, JULIAN OF NORWICH, learning the alto and bass parts.
It's remarkable how that phrase, All shall be well again, I know, the words of the medieval mystic, a woman, though called Julian of Norwich after the cathedral beneath which she lived in a cell, has kept resonating through the ages, in good times and bad and it is a wonderful, feel good sing as we look towards the spring after a gloomy winter.
Coming back from the coffee, and in response to our Welsh member who had bemoaned our failure to mark Saint David's day last week, we relaxed for a few minutes to listen to the beautiful lullaby Suo Gan played by harpist Catrin Finch and sung by soprano Caryl Ebenezer.