Posted on 12/10/2007 10:37:26 AM PST by NYer
“Oh come all ye ambivalent” hardihar.
hahah, the Brutal one is INDEED brutal.
Not being a fan of Celine Dion, I do appreciate her rendition more than Renee Fleming’s, only because I’m not an opera fan.
What say you, Publius?
I take that back...Celine Dion slaughtered the last part of “O Holy Night.” I do not care for all that “up and down and up” again of the voice...what do you call that “technique” Publius?
Well, there are a ton to choose from, and I agree, I've heard better. But next to that "brutal" rendition, it was pretty good!
Celine Dion has a beautiful voice, and begins O Holy Night very nicely. But I realized while listening to her sing O Holy Night that she wouldn’t have the range to hit that high note in soprano because she is alto.
Something wrong with the rhythm of the 2nd stanza?? I can’t quite figure it out.
All of the other reindeer (all those who hated Jesus)
Used to laugh and call him names (nailed him to a cross)
They never let poor Rudolph (all those who truly loved Him)
Join in any reindeer games (Suffered their greatest loss)
Sorry, I was just going by memory. My wife actually came up with the lyrics and the kids sing it. Please feel free to take artistic license to adjust for minor rhythm problems. If you have any suggestions, just post them here.
My new favorite our choir is performing at the live Nativity Saturday:
Come Thou Fount, Come Thou King—(Thomas Miller)
Come Thou Fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet sung by flaming tongues above;
Praise the mount, I’m fixed upon it, mount of Thy redeeming love.
I was lost in utter darkness ‘til You came and rescued me;
I was bound by all my sin when Your love came and set me free;
Now my soul can sing a new song, now my heart has found a home;
Now Your grace is always with me, and I’ll never be alone—
Come, Thou Fount, come Thou King, come Thou Precious Prince of Peace.
Hear your bride, to you we sing, Come Thou Fount of our blessing.
Come, Thou Fount, come Thou King, come Thou precious Prince of Peace.
Hear your bride, to you we sing, Come Thou Fount of our blessing.
Oh to grace, how great a debtor, daily I’m constrained to be;
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter; bind my wandering heart to Thee;
Prone to wander, Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart Lord, take and seal it, for Thy courts above!
Come, Thou Fount, come Thou King, come Thou Precious Prince of Peace.
Hear your bride, to you we sing, Come Thou Fount of our blessing.
Come, Thou Fount, come Thou King, come Thou precious Prince of Peace.
Hear your bride, to you we sing, Come Thou Fount of our blessing.
I was lost in utter darkness ‘til You came and rescued me;
I was bound by all my sin when Your love came and set me free.
She nails the high notes alright, she cracked my computer screen.
Thanks.
I thought maybe I was forgetting a verse or singing it differently.
:>)
I don’t have a sound card, so I can’t listen to any of that stuff. I don’t have a favorite version of that carol. But I would expect Fleming to follow Adolph Adam’s notes and sing it in the original key. Beyond that I couldn’t say.
Am I the only one who can’t sing in church without crying? I am ALWAYS overcome with the beauty of hymns. I mean, I’m not breaking down sobbing, but there’s always a tear rolling down my cheek when I think of the heartfelt emotions put into writing a hymn in the first place. :)
O Holy Night is a glorious hymn.
Holy cow, this thread is alive again? LOL.
Thanks for bringing it alive.
Ping, all you crazy folks.
;o) hee hee
“I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day” by H.W. Longfellow.
All the verses together tell a story, and I especially like this next-to-last verse:
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
“God is not dead, nor doth he sleep;
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail,
With peace on earth, good will to men.”
I saw the Boston Pops Holiday Concert this weekend. They did an amazing arrangement of The Twelve Days of Christmas. For each day, they changed the tune/style of music. The one that sticks out in my mind is the fifth day, which was sung to the music of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
I LOVE that version! We saw them on Christmas Eve last year. No one wanted that song to end - which is unusual because normally we’d be gouging out our eardrums halfway through that song.
I seem to remember one of the verses sung to Bohemian Rhapsody or another Queen song.
Where’s “Santa Baby”?
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