[Magdalen] Punxsutawney Phil.

[Joseph Cirou]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
>Sent: Feb 3, 2018 10:59 AM
>To: "magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Punxsutawney Phil.
>
>The final hymn at my mother's funeral was "Amazing Grace" because she and
>my brother would sing it on the phone long after she could no longer speak
>more than one word at a time...music was the last thing to go for her. Even
>when she could no longer sing the words, she would often sit and hum songs
>she knew. After the final verse of "Amazing Grace", the organist, as
>instructed (by me) burst into an all-stops-out version of her favorite
>Easter hymn, "Welcome, Happy Morning" as the postlude, and that's when I
>completely lost it.
>
>On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 10:08 AM, P. Dan Brittain <pdan.brittain at gmail.com>
>wrote:
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>> On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 8:18 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > Is that the “When we’ve been there ten thousand years..” verse? I love
>> it!
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>> ​Yes - look at the rest of the verses - it doesn't fit. (not saying I don't
>> like it I do; but it's not part of that hymn - most sources don't include
>> it with JMHH either but if you look at the text, it does go with it).​
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>> ​When we've been there has become a bit of a "wandering refrain,"​ used
>> when you are singing in common meter and need another verse - everyone
>> knows it.
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>> > >> ​The usual last verse of Amazing Grace does not go with that hymn. It
>> > was
>> > > written as part of Jerusalem, my happy home.​
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>> > > --
>> > > P. Dan Brittain
>> > > Harrison, Arkansas
>> > >
>> > > Transcriptions, Arrangements and Original Compositions
>> > > Wind Band, Brass Band, Choir, and Ensembles
>> > >
>> > > http//:pdanbrittain.com  Or  at Sheet Music Plus
>> > > http://tinyurl.com/yb9fl39r
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>> --
>> P. Dan Brittain
>> Harrison, Arkansas
>>
>> Transcriptions, Arrangements and Original Compositions
>> Wind Band, Brass Band, Choir, and Ensembles
>>
>> http//:pdanbrittain.com  Or  at Sheet Music Plus
>> http://tinyurl.com/yb9fl39r
>>
My mother's favorite hymn was On This Day O Beautiful Mother. She had it sung at her wedding, and for a time it was as popular among RC's as the Ave Maria. So we frequently sang it on their wedding anniversary, not every celebration but often enough. That was the closing hymn at  her funeral and that is when I lost it. Quite suddenly. They turned the casket around, and I was very much in control until that moment I think the hymn had already started. Otherwise it was a very proper musical funeral and my father's was magnificent.

changing the subject.

On the Synaxis of Simeon and Anna, I finish taking down all the Christmas decorations.

Joe