Posted on 12/24/2010 6:14:05 PM PST by AZamericonnie
*HUG*
Thank you!
Did you have a good day?
I did. Thanks.
((HUGZ))
A quiet day. My 13th consecutive Christmas alone, but I have my cooking and my musical rituals. It was in the mid-Fifties today but we’re scheduled for snow by mid-week.
Merry Christmas!
I hope Santa treated you guys well.
*HUG*
Awww...
I have some nice music coming up that I hope you will enjoy..
*HUG*
thank you!
Merry Christmas, Ma!
Good evening, Sis! Hope you got home in time to get some rest
and have some time with Mr. B for Christmas! ((((hugs))))
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*HUG*
Good evening, Sis.
Got up at 4am..yargh!
Came home and had a nice nap, and a fabulous supper with Mike.
A very nice and quiet Christmas..
When a mans is hungry a man is hungry!
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Celine Dion/Andrea Bocelli~The Prayer
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yark!! That is NOT any time to get up! I went to bed at 1:30...which I won’t be doing again tonight! LOL!
It was nice and quiet here, too. I am glad it’s done. :)
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Mannheim Steamroller~Hallelujah
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This hymn was a standard in the Latin mass days, but has disappeared since the Catholics went to English in the Sixties. This particular version is the contrapuntal version arranged in the Forties.
My mother was fond of this hymn and specified it for her funeral. However, when it was performed at her funeral in 2002, we almost had a train wreck.
First, the soprano splattered on the high E in the second line.
Then came the structural problem. The hymn is through-composed, although Franck reprises the first two lines in the middle. But then he takes off in a different direction. I suspect the soprano cantor had first heard the hymn in rehearsal the night before. When she hit the reprise in the middle, she tried singing the third line, but found that it didn't match the harmonies on the organ. She hesitated. The organist hesitated. At that point, I put my head in my hands and bent over. It was too horrible to bear. My relatives were whispering, "Poor guy. He must be prostrate with grief."
Then the singer began improvising her lines based on the harmonies from the organ. It wasn't Franck, but it wasn't bad either. By the next to last line, she had found her place and ended where she should be. I breathed a sigh of relief. It was a close call.
It’s a cold and dark time of day to be up, for sure.
beats me why anybody would want to get up at that time of day.
Phooey!
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A tone lower with the counterpoint on the English horn. Not bad.
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Celtic Woman~The Christmas Song
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