BLAAAAH!

3/3/09 11:48 AM

So, yesterday, I got a letter from the Cathedral about the Verger position.

They asked that I not attend an interview.

Sigh. I spoke with Amanda just this past Saturday. She said 19 people had applied and they were waiting on Jeremy (Sally's friend, the Precentor, who said he thought I'd be a great verger) to go over candidates. Since I got the letter on Monday, though, they might have given up on Jeremy's input. I had tried on Friday to speak with Kevin Cockburn (pronounced Coburn), the head of the HR department, but every time I knock on his door, he's out for the day. I had wanted to set up an interview then. Grr.

So I sent him an email asking if I could have an appointment to meet with him because I'm interested in working in England and would like to know where I went wrong so I can better apply next time. Maybe I can convince him to give me an interview anyway. I really hope so.

In other news, I really, really like the Lent Prose. It is the processional hymn for Sunday services during the time of Lent, and I think it sounds absolutely beautiful. There is no organ accompaniement. I don't have a recording of Salisbury's choir, but this YouTube video of St. Paul's choir sounds just like them:

Also on YouTube, I found a TV show about Salisbury Cathedral. Check it out! Each video is approximately 10 minutes long. The first bit is the best, I think, and it has some great shots of the Cathedral as well as talk about being a verger (Chris Crooks, from Canterbury, was head verger at Salisbury when this was made in 2005). It's really good, especially for those of you who haven't seen the Cathedral before. As the show continues, it becomes obvious that the host/writer is incredibly anti-Church. Everything he says is true, but he does phrase things in the worst possible way. That got to be irritating, but the shots of the Cathedral were amazing.

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Anyway, sorry for the short post, but I don't have much to say. Aside from not getting a job... not much has happened. I'll let you know if I can manage to get an interview after all, though!