Hey Cek *waving*  how are things with your furbabies????

KeepOnSinging wrote:

[color=#ffffff !important]9:55[/color]St Matthew Passion, Final Chorus, J.S. BachMalmokammarkor

• 6 years ago
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View your posts have brought back so many memories.
These are the  English lyrics to the above chorale: "We sit down with tears and call to You in the grave: rest gently, gently rest! Rest, you exhausted limbs! - Rest gently, rest well. -    Your grave and headstone shall, for the anxious conscience, be a comfortable pillow and the resting place for the soul. - rest gently, gently rest! Highly contented, there the eyes fall asleep."


I was a freshman in college when, as part of four choral groups at Wheaton College, I got to sing in my first performance of the St. Matthew Passion. It was hard not to have tears while rehearsing and definitely while performing this great work of art. And in that chorus was John Nelson, (Like me a missionary's kid: he from Costa Rica and me from China) who has become one of the best known and most respected choral and symphony conductors in the world. I took a group of teenagers, during a major winter storm to watch him conduct the Chicago Symphony in Dec. of 1973 when he took George Solti's place. His mission now? To bring Bach to the entire world; to found an organization called Soli del Gloria, the words that Bach put on every piece of music that he wrote; and to use funds from that organization to help gifted composers who have a passion for composing sacred music but have very little money. In Paris and now in Chicago, he and his orchestra performed one of three works of Bach's during the Easter season: The St. Matthew Passion; The B Minor Mass; St. John's Passion.

It is good to remember< in a time when fame and wealth seem to have co-opted almost everything, that Bach was barely able to support his family as he composed some of the greatest music ever; that he never gave up: that the Lutheran Churches in which he worked often gave him great difficulty; that while Handel was experiencing fame and wealth in England, Bach was not experiencing either in Germany; that when he died, like Mozart, he was buried in a pauper's grave; and that his wife was asked to refund to the church the remainder of the money that had been prepaid for the year. I tell his story a lot because today serious musicians think they have failed if they have not achieved fame and at least a modest fortune. Yet he today is considered to be the giant among giants of music. I will never forget the looks on faces of teens when I compared the Beatles music to Bach's (and other Baroque composers) by playing music back to back because you can actually hear how the "continuo" lines in Baroque music have greatly impacted rock musicians who are real musicians and not just "wanna-be" stars. The Baroque age was also a time of improvisation and also greatly impacted jazz. Years ago, Garrison Keeler covered Bach's life and obstacles in a great sketch on the Prairie Home Companion.

 

thanks for sharing this Kos   

CEK40 wrote:

Artem Chigvintsev On What He & Mischa Barton Can Do To Impress Len On 'Dancing'


http://www.accesshollywood.com/videos/artem-chigvintsev-on-what-he-mischa-barton-can-do-to-impress-len-on-dancing/

I am leaving my pic for Geraldo being first to go home but I am really torn because I think it could be Mischa too...hmmmmmmm

april6263 wrote:

CEK40 wrote:

Artem Chigvintsev On What He & Mischa Barton Can Do To Impress Len On 'Dancing'


http://www.accesshollywood.com/videos/artem-chigvintsev-on-what-he-mischa-barton-can-do-to-impress-len-on-dancing/

I am leaving my pic for Geraldo being first to go home but I am really torn because I think it could be Mischa too...hmmmmmmm

I know April...it is a really close decision .... but with this show you never know who is going home!!

CEK40 wrote:

april6263 wrote:

a friend of mine shared this video with me ....I had never heard these brothers before ....they are awesome  I hope you all enjoy this too  HAPPY GOOD FRIDAY



 

They are awesome April...I have never heard of them myself...

My friend had never  heard of  them either....LOL....her friend shared it with her so she shared it with me   I loved their voices and the song though