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

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Shape note does lend itself to lusty singing and banging on the knee or
something...

It's really something.

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 Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> > Harrison, Arkansas
> >
> > http//:pdanbrittain.com
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> >
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