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mykpart
(3,879 posts)I love choir music, and they are good at it.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)emilyg
(22,742 posts)Speck Tater
(10,618 posts)Especially Beethoven's Ninth, third movement.
But this makes me want to puke. Sorry.
It's just so offensive in so many ways.
longship
(40,416 posts)Indeed! Let's revive the crusades. Horrible hymn.
I like choral music myself, and the MTC. But I would prefer something like A Mighty Fortress which is a very cool hymn.
As an atheist I do not draw any lines on sacred vs secular music. I love them both equally. But this one has a horrible message.
Here's a beauty:
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I'd like to hear them do some Latin and German.
If they want to do liturgical classics, and while some English lyric adaptations or re-uses are also very good, they should include some original language arrangements.
There something just not right about taking a perfectly good Bach choral piece, for example, or a medieval theme, going up tempo and pasting shlocky lyrics by overheated 19th Century English majors.
Now, I agree, sometimes that results in works that stand on their own merits.
But for a choir this capable, and arrangers this talented, it would be nice to pay tribute to the original works once in a while.
longship
(40,416 posts)Yes, it really exists. Yes, it really is about coffee, and the prohibition of the same. The progenitors, father and daughter, resolve their dispute (and the musical dissonance) over... that's right, a steaming hot cuppa.
Here's that steaming hot cuppa for DUers:
Bach rules!!!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Little known fact I learned from Professor Peter Schickele, the biographer and chief authority on P.D.Q. Bach.
I interned with him for a semester at the University of Southern North Dakota.
longship
(40,416 posts)Which would, of course, be the main campus. Hoople, ND population 240 souls (so to speak).
I saw PDQ Bach, Peter Schickele conduct the Detroit Symphony Orchestra at Meadowbrook years ago. (long ago. I was a physics student at Oakland University.) Wonderful! Sitting on the lawn, drinking wine and chomping Pinconning extra sharp, laughing our asses off, and lots of tongue-in-cheek music.
Too bad Gerard Hoffnung didn't live into the sixties. I would have loved to experience one of his music festivals at Albert Hall. Only he would dare rescore a Chopin Mazurka for four tubas.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)You've cut me to the core!!!
Great sport! Eh?
Love it. Don't mind losing.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)DevonRex
(22,541 posts)It was so exciting. Baptists and Fundies always sing it at revivals.
Now it gives me the creeps.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Had it not been for the British missionary effort, then we would never have seen Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu finally establish victory over the Afrikaners.
Desmond Tutu won the Boer War!
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)Now I shall have to look up the history of the hymn. Well, it's Sunday after all. Appropriate activity I suppose, along with the crossword.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)It's the Salvation Army theme song.
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)but in a child's mind it does raise vivid images. Those themes seem to be more real than allegorical in some churches these days.
I didn't know it was the SA's song.
GoneOffShore
(17,309 posts)And no music from the cultists.