Vanity: Reagan State Funeral Hymn (please help me identify)

http://www.embeddedexcellence.com/hymn.wmv ^ | July 23, 2004 | Keith Brafford

[krb]

I am sorry for the vanity, but I hope that by posting it on a Friday night that I do as little damage to the forum as possible.

There was an amazingly beautiful hymn performed at Reagan's State Funeral that I can't get out of my head, one that I wish to add to my personal collection. It is a marvelous performance that culminates with the grand organ adding itself to the youth choir that opened the hymn, adding depth and weight to the life they were celebrating.

Can anyone in freeperdom help me identify it, and possibly point me to a clean MP3 (or other compressed file) version of it?

Here is the link.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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My Pleasure:


RANDALL's 'MANSIONS' =

RONNIE's D.C. Funeral Hymn

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3520

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[Indy Pendance]

Every now and then, I'll just let it run for an hour or so. I'm an old cellist, and this is a great piece of music, IMHO.

[Indy Pendance]

You're welcome. I believe you can order the dvd of the funeral services from the Reagan Library. You might want to check that out.

[TomServo]

That hymn was in "We Were Soldiers"?

Written for the movie, also.

[TomServo]

You oughta go get the sheet music...

[krb]

adding depth and weight to the life they were celebrating.

I just re-read what I wrote, and that is totally not what I meant. To think that one needs to or even could add depth or other value to the man's life is almost funny.

What I meant was that I am enthralled with how the arrangement builds up over the course of the hymn. The innocent childrens' voices start, the other voices come in after the first third, the organ starts to move the floor after the first half.

For a man who didn't start life as we remember it until he had completed a successful run in a whole different career, then start, in his freakining 50's, to go on to gently but firmly lead the world away from nuclear destruction, this is a wonderful hymn to capture that contrubution.

I was already moved by it...now that you guys have educated me reagarding the whole story I wish I could high-five Nancy for making sure this performance was in the funeral.

[x1stcav]

Most of you have probably seen this but, if you haven't, get the hanky out.

http://www.ronaldreaganmemorial.com/photo_gallery.asp

[TomServo]

We couldn't mention "We were Soldiers" without having you here...

Thanks for everything, buddy!!

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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NEVER FORGET


...Seems the REAGAN Presidential Library has adopted RANDALL WALLACE's 'Mansions of the Lord' as it's very own.

...It lovingly plays at the End of the Library's new 'Mourning in America' Exhibit, about the uplifting Week that Was the REAGAN Passing, and ends next Veterans Day.

...'Mansions of the Lord' which was co-written by "WE WERE SOLDIERS" Music Sountrack Composer NICK GLENNIE-SMITH, is now lovingly called...

..'The REAGAN Recessional'...

...FOREVER.


GOD is Good.


NEVER FORGET

[Darkwolf377]

Fellow posters, you're mixing up two different songs:

Those who are mentioning Jerusalem are correct--that is the song sung by the children with the organ.

Mansions of the Lord is sung by the male choir--no organ, no kids.

[dougherty]

I fell in love with one piece of music during the funeral, and that was Mansions of the Lord. I went out and bought it the day after the funeral. I have a huge collection of film scores and the We Were Soldiers is one of the best.

[krb]

Hehehe...I just figureed that out...the one in my video is "Jerusalem"

But it looks like I need to check out the Mansions of the Lord Hymn too.

[krb]

I'll definitely check it out too.

[Billthedrill]

It's "Jerusalem." FReepers more educated than I in such matters will no doubt correct me, but here are lyrics that have been sung to that tune, by a very great poet.

Jerusalem

William Blake

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green
And was the holy lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen

And did the Countenance divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills
And was Jerusalem builded there
Among those dark Satanic mills?

Bring me my bow of burning gold
Bring me my arrows of desire
Bring me my spears, O clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire

I will not cease from mental fight
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
'Til we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land.

What it means, at least to me, is that there is one last, best hope, and that we must build it ourselves. I think that's what Reagan may have had in mind.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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Here's some more very special insights into the WALLACE/GLENNIE-SMITH 'Mansions/REAGAN Recessional' Hymn:


.."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. MOORE & GALLOWAY / JW Radio Guests

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1164717/posts

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[krb]

Is there a clean MP3 of this hymn?

[TomServo]

Thanks Ronnie!!

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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RONNIE gave all = We have it all

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3466

...and that's OURSELVES.


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[razorback-bert]

The melody from 1916 is by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, (1848-1918) and was used for an old poem by William Blake 1757-1827. The entire hymn is always sung. It was especially associated with the Women's Institute and Labour Party conferences.

audio files http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/rulebritannia.html#Jerusalem

Jerusalem is one of my favorites, I even like the Emerson,Lake and Palmer version.

[razorback-bert]

Found a better version.

Hav­ing be­gun work on his epic po­ems “Mil­ton, a Po­em in Two Books” and “Je­ru­sa­lem,” on moving to Fel­pham, Sus­sex, in 1800, Blake com­plet­ed his Preface to Milton in 1804, ap­par­ent­ly while await­ing trial in Chi­ches­ter for high treason (he moved back to Lon­don af­ter be­ing ac­quit­ted).

Charles Parry set Blake’s Preface to Milton to mu­sic for a ral­ly of the “Fight for the Right” move­ment in Queen’s Hall. It be­came more gen­er­al­ly known as “Je­ru­sa­lem” when Par­ry con­duct­ed it in 1918 at a con­cert to mark the fi­nal stage in the Votes for Wo­men Cam­paign, af­ter which it was adopt­ed by the Na­tion­al Fed­er­a­tion of Wo­men’s In­sti­tutes (and is still sung at meet­ings of WI Groups all over Britain). Ed­ward El­gar added an or­ches­tral score to Parry’s rather som­ber tune in time for the Leeds Fes­ti­val of 1922, turn­ing it in­to a pop­ular na­tion­al hymn which tra­di­tion­al­ly ends the last night of the an­nu­al Sir Henry Wood prom­en­ade con­certs at the Roy­al Al­bert Hall. This work al­so made an ap­pear­ance in the 1981 Acad­e­my Award win­ning mo­vie Chariots of Fire.

The theme is unique­ly Eng­lish, and there is an un­der­tone of 19th Cen­tu­ry pol­i­tics. The lyr­ics may refer to folk­lore that says Je­sus vis­it­ed Bri­tain as a teen­ag­er with Jo­seph of Ar­i­ma­thea, who was said to be a dis­tant rel­a­tive and had a stake in Cor­nish tin mines. How­ev­er, there is no his­tor­ic­al da­ta sup­port­ing this sto­ry.

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/j/e/r/jerusalem.htm


I think, it is one of the Mormon Choir's albums, will check later.