[Magdalen] Music memories

[Jay Weigel]

Fior me, that piece is "How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place" from the Brahms
"German Requiem".....not in German, however. I had just turned 15 and was
at the UW summer music clinic, which was a 3 week gathering of high school
musicians from all over Wisconsin, northern Illinois, and a few other
places. There were probably 250 of us in the chorus. It was my first
experience of singing Brahms other than the cradle song. I was too
dumb/naive to know it was difficult. It was absolutely amazing and made the
hairs on the back of my  neck stand up, and when we sang it in concert  I
was nearly in tears when it was over. It still has that effect on me.

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> In a message dated 12/23/2014 10:25:00 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> gracecan at gmail.com writes:
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> It  always takes me surprise when a piece of music triggers an unexpected
> memory.  I was just listening to "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" on NPR and
> remembered  the first I ever sang it. I was absolutely there  again.>>>>
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> This was a favorite of the Extraordinary Form RC Rite (the Tridentine
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> Rite) people locally.  Because of the rules about the integrity of  this
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> Rite, they had to develop a Latin text for the piece.
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> Can you imagine singing "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring" in Latin?   :-)
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> David Strang.
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