[ottbmare]

I’m glad my fellow Episcopalians are joining the rest of us who have crossed the Tiber. But isn’t it amazing that a small parish like that can generate enough musical talent to perform Byrd, Gregorian Chants, Tallis, de Vittoria, etc.? Next they’ll be tackling Palestrina! That’s incredible. I may have to trot up to Balmer to hear this.

[AnAmericanMother]

We do the same music, more or less (we're heavy on the English Renaissance composers too) with a choir of anywhere from 15 to 20 amateurs.

If you rehearse with attention and have a good director, this is all quite do-able. We have done the Victoria "O quam gloriosum", the Byrd "Ave Verum Corpus", the Lassus "Adoramus te", the Batten "O Sing Joyfully" (which is a delight to sing, by the way!) No Byrd Mass yet, but no reason why we couldn't - our standard festival Mass is the Mozart "Spaurmesse" in C major and it's fairly tricky in spots.