[Magdalen] Terminology query (was Re: speaking of downsizing...)

[Jay Weigel]

It's a wonderful hymn to sing in parts especially. St. Barnabas, the
Episcopal-Lutheran congregation I was music coordinator for at one time,
contained a number of former Baptists and Methodists, and they were best
(and I secretly thought happiest) at LEVAS II hymns, so I scheduled a lot
of them. This was a favorite, along with "Blessed Assurance", "The Old
Rugged Cross", and ":Leaning on the Everlasting Arms".

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 2:43 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> I heard the hymn, "It is well" from my wife, who had sung it as a youth.  I
> was moved by the beauty of the tune and the story behind it.
> The hymn was written by Horatio Spafford. He and his wife had four
> daughters in the 1870s. They were quite well off, living in Chicago and
> planned to travel in Europe. Mr. S was delayed by business, but planned to
> join the family shortly in Europe. Crossing the Atlantic, the ship with
> Mrs. S and the four daughters was rammed, and sank in just a few minutes.
> All four daughters drowned. Mr. S took a ship to join his wife in Europe.
> One evening he was asked to join the captain on the bridge. The captain
> told him that by the best reckoning of the navigators, at that moment they
> were passing over the very spot in the Atlantic where the other ship sank.
> Spafford went back to his stateroom and wrote the hymn. It only obliquely
> and subtly refers to the terrible tragedy.
>
>
>    1. When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
>    When sorrows like sea billows roll;
>    Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,
>    It is well, it is well with my soul.
>       - Refrain:
>       It is well with my soul,
>       It is well, it is well with my soul.
>    2. Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
>    Let this blest assurance control,
>    That Christ hath regarded my helpless estate,
>    And hath shed His own blood for my soul.
>    3. And Lord, haste the day when the faith shall be sight,
>    The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
>    The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,
>    Even so, it is well with my soul.
>
>
> The Spaffords had three other children, I believe, one of whom died of
> scarlet fever. They eventually moved to Jerusalem and carried out relief
> work there for many years.
>
> I wrote a setting of the hymn for women's voices that, if all goes
> according to plan, will be premiered in about a month.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 11:41 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > How many people in the TEC tradition know the hymn, "It is well with my
> > soul" ?
> >
> > James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> > *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> > except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Kristin Rollins <kristin at verumsolum.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> It is amazing, though, how some of those terms can seem like everybody
> >> knows them until you are somewhere else. And then you don't know which
> >> words are the ones that will make people look at you like "WHAT did you
> >> just say?"
> >>
> >> I think I had the same experience with hymn tunes. There were the tunes
> >> that EVERYBODY knew back home, and in most churches I visited other
> >> places near there. But it took a long time to figure out which ones
> >> would get a "we've NEVER sung that tune before" reaction from choir and
> >> congregation down here.
> >>
> >> Kristin
> >>
> >> --
> >>   Kristin Rollins
> >>   kristin at verumsolum.com
> >>   Portsmouth, VA
> >>
> >> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015, at 08:49 PM, Scott Knitter wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Kate Conant <kate.conant at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> > > Maybe we can go on to various words for
> >> couch/davenport/sofa/Chesterfield
> >> > > ???? <grin>
> >> >
> >> > Our Canadian organist/choirmaster in East Cupcake would use terms like
> >> > Chesterfield as though everyone everywhere used that term. I remember
> >> > a choir party at his house when his wife told one of the tenors she
> >> > had picked up a dropped glove of his and put in on the Chesterfield.
> >> > He blinked and said, "Quick: name three synonyms for Chesterfield!"
> >> > hoping one of them would enlighten him as to where his glove was.
> >>
> >
> >
>