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

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

[krb]

I even like the Emerson,Lake and Palmer version.

Eh?

[GOPrincess]

That was as stirring performance of JERUSALEM with the youth choir...

Like others here I also bought WE WERE SOLDIERS after the funeral. I was so struck with the arrangement played during the Recessional and thought it sounded like film music...thanks to all the knowledgeable FReepers here I found out it was, and got it :).

I was at the Reagan Library yesterday...they were supposed to have an official DVD and CD released around July 1 but they either sold out or have been delayed, a sign in the gift shop said they would be released later this summer.

[GOPrincess]

That was as stirring performance of JERUSALEM with the youth choir...

Like others here I also bought WE WERE SOLDIERS after the funeral. I was so struck with the arrangement played during the Recessional and thought it sounded like film music...thanks to all the knowledgeable FReepers here I found out it was, and got it :).

I was at the Reagan Library yesterday...they were supposed to have an official DVD and CD released around July 1 but they either sold out or have been delayed, a sign in the gift shop said they would be released later this summer.

[nutmeg]

bookmark bump

[krb]

That was as stirring performance of JERUSALEM with the youth choir...

Indeed it was...

I am *so* envious of you (in a good way :-) that you got to go to the library...

[TaxRelief]

I have not received my DVD/CD either that I ordered for Father's Day.

[Enterprise]

Thanks for a great link.

[krb]

I really appreciate the attention and effort you Freepers have given my question.

The video I captured from my copy of the Reagan funeral shows the hymn "Jerusalem," arranged so beautifully that I could listen to it repeatedly until I died and I would be a happy man.

However, thanks to preemptive and some might argue presumptious :-), over-achieving Freepers, I have discovered "Mansions of the Lord," whose performance in the Reagan funeral I have added to my company's website.

It is a truly haunting performance, and I can't dry the tears from my eyes as I listen to it. Thank you all for pointing me to the song, this performance, and to the movie that it came from.

I doubly still want to high-five Nancy for making sure this tribute to her fallen soldier was included in his memorial. She exhibits greatness that I can't express, that has us all choked up nodding "yep, yep" and that needs no explanation.

For all you folks who jumped the gun and assumed that the video I posted was "Mansion of the Lord" I proffer my capture of the "Mansion of the Lord" portion of the funeral, and my thanks for trying to help me find the music I was seeking.

Note that I included the "Let us go forth in the name of Christ" part of the service in my video. I have done this for three reasons:

• 1: It was at an even second marker in the software I use to edit video,
• 2: I accepted Christ as my savior a couple of weeks ago, am missing the church I grew up with, and am really digging the message, and
• 3: I note the talons on the presidential flag over the left-shoulder of the priest at the beginning of the clip. I do not think for one iota of a minute that that talon is showing arrows instead of the olive branch without a danmed good reason.

--Keith

[Indy Pendance]

I don't play in that capacity anymore, and I regret it all the time.

[Tarheel]

Thank you for such wonderful video and music. Now I am blubbering but thanks anyway.

[razorback-bert]

http://www.davemcnally.com/Lyrics/EmersonLakeandPalmer/BrainSaladSurgery/

[jslade]

bttt

[Enterprise]

I first became aware of Mansions of the Lord in Gibson's "We Were Soldiers" movie. I too am grateful for the links back to it from the posters. A profoundly beautiful song.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Order of Service for state funeral of Ronald Wilson Reagan, 11:30 am, June 11, 2004

[MaxMax]

Bump as my first post.


God Bless America.
MaxMax..

[krb]

You couldn't have picked a better bump, mein freund.