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

[Grace Cangialosi]

Lusty singing, for sure, but I've never experienced knee-banging!
Susan? Dan?

> On Jan 8, 2016, at 1:48 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>>> 
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