[Magdalen] Music memories

[Joseph Cirou]

All those pieces have memories for me too. I remember my aunt, my first
music teacher, handing me the music and asking me to play it. I was about 8
or 9 and I loved it. I didn't know a think about it. I think that is the
way I found out about the Maronious Blacksmith as well. The first time I
sang the same movement from How Lovely was in the DePaul Summer Chorus in
1960 from Rene Dosogne. I knew there was a German Requiem, but I didn't
know the piece and I have loved it since. That was the same year I sang the
Marienlieder by Brahms and dello Joio's Hymn to St Caecilia.ll
all of which have remained favorites. Despite Purcell and Handell the Dello
Joio setting of the words "But Bright Caecilia made the wonder higher when
to her organ vocal breath was given" is indelible in my memory. I have the
Youtube performance from the University of Kansas bank and I just looked at
my score and that school had commissioned the piece and I guess Dosogne
knew Dello Joio and wanted to do it himself. Sound the Trumpet I found in a
WLSM catalogue from Annie Bank when I was about 14 and I had Dutch edition
so knew the Dutch words and only later learned the real context of the work
from which it comes.
Joe Cirou

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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.
>>>
>>>
>