[Magdalen] Music memories

[Joseph Cirou]

David,

Did you use by any chance the text Jesu Dulcis Memoria for the Jesu Joy? A
number of classic Lutheran composer have used Latin texts beyond the
classic ordinary and Vesper texts. I am thinking of Buxtehude's Cantata
Membra Jesu about the 5 Wounds of Jesus (something that was Pietistic but
not that far removed from Catholic spirituality of the time

Joe Cirou

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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