[Magdalen] Brightest and Best - The Epiphany, January 6, 2016.

[Jay Weigel]

I absolutely LOVE "Star in the East"! We did it once in our choir, just
once.....a cappella and full-on belting it out. It got kind of mixed
reactions from the congregation--some loved it, you could almost see the
chill bumps rising; others, not so much. It was a total change from our
usual fare, and it's so quintessentially American and non-Anglican, I think
it was kind of unsettling to some of them. I've done it a couple of times
in other settings and it gives ME chill bumps every single time!

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 7:54 AM, P. Dan Brittain <pdan.brittain at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 6:08 AM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Nice, James. Thanks for sharing. I honestly don't think I've ever heard
> > Brightest and Best sung to this tune before. I've always heard the
> > Victorian tune, Morning Star. I take it this is the "other" tune in our
> > 1982 Hymnal?
> >
> > Yes - and the editors appear not to have known of the tradition of
> raising
> the 6th - not necessarily universally practiced.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/jmxqu5v    is of a shape note group singing it. Groups
> outside the traditional deep south usually don't sing it dorian.
>
>
> P. Dan Brittain
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>
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