FReeper Canteen ~ Sunday Chapel ~ DON'T BLAME CHANGING TIMES ~ 3 November 2013

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[Kathy in Alaska]

The Lord's Prayer

[ConorMacNessa]

Good Evening, Kathy!

***HUGS***



A Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours! Thank you very much for tonight’s Sunday Chapel thread.

"Riamh nár dhruid ó sbairn lann!"

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

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I haven’t seen the video yet, as pastor Jerry took it to Kentucky to share with his mom and sister (It was a Memorial Service for Jerry’s Brother Ken). So far, it has not been posted on You Tube or fB so when it is, i will post a link.

[Kathy in Alaska]

A Blessed Lord's Day to you and your family.

The 23rd Psalm

[Publius]

Franz Bruchmann was a part of Schubert’s circle of friends, and Frannie set this execrable text written by Bruchmann out of friendship with the family. The occasion was the death of Bruchman’s sister at age 18.

In later years, Bruchmann would marry, lose his wife to death, become a priest and then a bishop. In his last years he would write a reminiscence of the Schubert circle, condemning their casual bisexuality, but not naming it directly. One did not write of the love that dared not speak its name, especially if one was a high-ranking churchman and involved with such a group of people in his youth.

This is a case of Schubert’s taking a fourth rate poem and turning it into gold. Note the quote from the finale of Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony, set in the minor, that underlays the piece.

If you expand the text, you get both English and German lyrics.

Schubert: “Sister’s Greeting”, D. 762 (Janet Baker accompanied by Gerald Moore)

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When it comes to “Taking a fourth rate poem and turning it into Gold”, I would say that Beethoven’s 9th wins the prize! hehehe

[Publius]

Naughty, naughty. Tee-hee.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Shorty GiggleLips & the Canteen Kids – click

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Troops and Vets, for your service to our country.

Josh Groban ~ You Raise Me Up

Thanks, unique, for the logo.

[ConorMacNessa]

Good evening, ML!

*HUGS*

A Blessed Lord's Day to you!

I couldn't agree with you more! We're "governed" by a cell of godless Marxists who wouldn't know the Truth if it smacked them in the face!

As an aside, I wonder if they had a button for the secular humanists, agnostics, atheists and others who will not swear oaths but would rather "affirm."

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

Eagles Up! Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Publius]

I did one of Franz Schubert’s Seidl settings, the male quartet “Grave and Moon”, for Halloween. This is another Seidl setting, a bit on the sentimental side. But Frannie here turns a third rate poem into gold.

The little passing bell of the title is rung by an altar boy when he accompanies a priest delivering communion and last rites to a dying person. The pianist plays the bell on the little finger of his right hand twice in each bar throughout the song.

Ring the night through,
Bring sweet peace
To him you toll for!
Ring out in the far distance;
Thus you reconcile pilgrims
With the world.

In the second verse, Schubert cadences in the sub-mediant, which is why this song is not strictly strophic. But then when he repeats the line, he cadences in the minor to prep for the next verse.

But who would wish to journey
To the loved ones
Who have gone before?
Though he gladly rang the bell,
He trembles on the threshold
When a voice cries “Enter.”

Frannie may have felt he was a wicked son, leaving his monster of a father to seek his way in the world. He sets this verse in the minor and without irony.

Is it meant for the wicked son
Who still curses its sound
Because it is sacred?
No, it rings more loudly
When a man who trusts in God
Concludes his life’s journey.

Schubert loved dogs, and he sets this terrible, mawkish verse without embarrassment in the tonic major.

But if it is a weary man
Deserted by his kin,
Whose faith in the world
Has been saved
Only by a faithful beast,
Call him to you, O God!

This verse Frannie took to heart, as his circle of friends was what sustained him in his 29th year. It ends with contentment.

If it is one of the blessed
Who partakes of the joys
Of love and friendship,
Then grant him yet bliss
Beneathy this sun,
Where he gladly tarries.

Schubert: “The Little Passing Bell”, D. 871 (Scot Weir accompanied by Samuel Bächli)

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You should hear me sing “Ode to Joy” in fake German.

[Publius]

Freud invested psychiatrics
Doctored all the crazy ones...

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Actually, they HAD an “affirm” button.

here’s the thing...if a person doesn’t believe, and presses the affirm button instead of swearing, does that mean he/she has no compunction about LYING in the aforementioned affidavit?

And now, that aforementioned alleged LIAR is walking around with a GUN?

legally?

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Schadendenfreude
Gut und Funkie
Dey getz zir Cumuppenzee
Ven Zey Getz on Pitard Hoizted
It Iz Suc Und Joy to Zee!

(Spellcheck just had a Haaht attack over that one!)

[Publius]

Clever!

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I have been Zinging it a lot lately.
hehehe

[Publius]

Johann Georg Jacobi was a German poet of the second rank, and Franz Schubert at 19 turned this little bit of dross into some of his greatest gold. Tony Salieri was beside himself with pride when he heard this song. The mix of German and Italian styles is exquisite.

The video contains subtitles in English.

Schubert: “Litany for the Feast of All Souls”, D. 343 (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau accompanied by Gerald Moore)

[ConorMacNessa]

Good evening, Maestro! Thank you so much for this evening's offerings from Berlioz, Brahms and Verdi! I had the great pleasure of singing (as a chorister, of course, not a soloist) all three of those magnificent works.

Each one of those Requiems is chock full of delights for all voice parts, not to mention the great solos in each of them.

From the Berlioz, I remember most the "Lachrymosa." From the Brahms, "Aber des Herrn Wort," "Ich Hoffe," and "Der Gerechten Seelen sind in Gottes Hand." (I can still sing the Tenor part from memory over twenty years later)

The Verdi sticks with me more for the solos than the choruses - I worked on several of them for years - the "Ingemisco," the "Hostias" and the "Kyrie." I always liked the Björling rendition of the "Ingemisco" - a B-Natural embellishment at the final measure.

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

Eagles Up! Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Publius]

I have one more choral work coming up shortly, and you may not be familiar with it.