[Magdalen] Music memories

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I remember rehearsing that piece a short time after the towers fell, and
having to leave the rehearsal because the words were so powerful, the image
of all those souls in the hands of God was overwhelming.
The New York Philharmonic chose the Brahms Requiem as a memorial for the
dead. No other piece could have even come close, as it turns out.

Someone who was there said that they had never heard anything quite like
it.  The hall was absolutely still, save for a few sobs.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> 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.
> >
>