[Magdalen] Music memories

[Marion Thompson]

Amongst many  memories, Purcell's 'Sound the trumpet'  Memories of my 
girls school choir, and then of Alfred Deller and the Deller Consort's 
recording and the group I was young with (discovery of the 
counter-tenor!), and then as a camp counsellor with a very musical 
colleague now dead (we would sing it round the rec' hall piano).

Marion, a pilgrim
On 12/23/2014 10:48 AM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 12/23/2014 10:25:00 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> gracecan at gmail.com writes:
>>
>> 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.>>>>
>>
>> This was a favorite of the Extraordinary Form RC Rite (the Tridentine
>> Latin
>> Rite) people locally.  Because of the rules about the integrity of  this
>> Latin
>> Rite, they had to develop a Latin text for the piece.
>>
>> Can you imagine singing "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring" in Latin?   :-)
>>
>>
>>
>> David Strang.
>>