[Magdalen] Harmonia Sacra

[Grace Cangialosi]

Jay,
I just found this post...for some reason, a whole bunch of recent Maddie's posts arrived in my spam folder.
I'm glad you went and enjoyed the singing; you'll have to get your name on Sam Showalter's email list! 

Loved your reference to the "Good Peanuts" song! I first heard it on a record of folk songs by Sam Hinton and fell in love with it. I used to teach it at various group events, i.e. Cub Scouts, camp, with some of my music classes. The cumulative effect of all the ridiculous verses always had folks laughing.

> On May 4, 2015, at 2:58 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I attended my first ever Harmonia Sacra singing last night and had an
> absolutely wonderful time. Although I didn't know many of the hymns and had
> a little trouble finding my way at times, nobody seemed to mind. There were
> other first-timers there, including a very young (but obviously, by the
> beard, married) Mennonite man and a young rather formally dressed couple,
> and it was quite well attended. We sang the Billings "Easter Anthem"
> (amazingly well, too!) and the "Dedication Anthem" which is easier than I
> thought it would be. I will admit to nearly dissolving in giggles at the
> "Parting Hymn", and I had to explain that to the leader......it turned out
> that neither he nor his wife had ever heard of the song I grew up singing
> throughout my childhood:
> 
> The man who has plenty of good peanuts
> And giveth his neighbor none
> He shan't have any of my peanuts
> When his peanuts are gone
> When his peanuts are gone
> When his peanuts are gone!
> Oh that will be joyful, joyful, joyful,
> Oh that will be joyful
> When his peanuts are gone!
> 
> Now where do you suppose my parents would have learned that? Because that's
> where I learned it.
> 
> Anyway, I think that was only my first Harmonia Sacra singing. I drove home
> as a gorgeous full moon was rising over Massanutten Mountain and was
> thankful that such opportunities exist.