[Magdalen] 50 Days Thoughts.

[Scott Knitter]

David, thanks for this Duruflé. It's wonderful.

Soon I shall be taken in by Arvo Pärt's setting of Veni Sancte Spiritus
from the Berliner Messe. The CD swept me away during a visit to Tower
Records, Ann Arbor, and I found myself at the sales counter begging for a
copy of whatever was playing on the sound system. That's what it was (the
Gloria from the Berliner Messe, which swept me to the sales counter).

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 9:33 PM, cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

> I was first introduced to this grand Durufle organ piece, "Veni Creator
> Spiritus,"
> on Pentecost weekend on the occasion of touring Ulm Cathedral with
> my family back in the 1960's.  The three of us - daughter, son and myself
> had just climbed the Ulm Cathedral tower, tallest in the world at 560+ ft.
> That was a terrifying experience for me because the paving stone was well
> worn and irregular and my kids were running around the edge of the tower
> finial with no regard to the height.
>
> Anyway, we entered the Ulm Cathedral (It is a Lutheran church and has
> never been a cathedral) to the overwhelming sound of the organ variations
> on the familiar Pentecost chant.
>
> When I sang in the local Procathedral choir, groups of choir members
> chanted a versefollowed by the appropriate organ variation
> as a prelude to the main Eucharist for Pentecost.
>
>
>
>
> David Strang - In the Pennsylvania Poconos.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRpKtZrSTeg
>



-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA