[Magdalen] VTS Chapel,

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

One time, many, many years ago, a young Peter Schickele went to see the
Ring.

He said that, when he was exiting the theater, he had the thought:

"I wonder if Eisenhower is still president."

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 Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 10/10/2015 3:33:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jguthrie at pipeline.com writes:
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> At the  Celebrant's instruction ringing the Sanctus Bell as many times as
> it
> takes  at the offertory when the choir director has decided that today's
> anthem
> will consist of the entire Wagner Ring  Cycle.>>>>>>>>
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> On the one occasion when I attended the Easter Vigil at SMV in New  York,
> it was after an afternoon performance of Gotterdammerung ("Twilight of  the
> Gods"), the last in the Wagner Ring Cycle at the Met Opera.
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> The Assistant Bishop of New York seemed unusually clumsy in his
> duties as chief presider that evening, and he managed to drop his
> microphone on the stone floor several times during the course of the
> evening Liturgy.  The resulting crashing noise which reverberated  through
> that very live church was memorable.  After the last such episode,  we
> decided that the Met Opera staging of the final scene of the opera  could
> take some tips from SMV, at least in the auditory department.
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> David Strang.
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