FReeper Canteen ~ Sunday Chapel ~ Living Prayer ~ 30 December 2012

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome Troops, Veterans, Families, and Allies!
God Bless You and Keep You Safe.

Thanks, unique, for our troop blessing.

There Shall Be Showers of Blessing

Heavenly Sunlight

[Kathy in Alaska]

UGH! I just checked the weather forecast...next few days above freezing with snow and RAIN. Below freezing not returning til later in the week. I hate the warm weather in the middle of winter.

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning/afternoon/evening/night Troops, wherever you are.

Thank you for doing your part to help keep all of us free and safe.

Thanks, unique, for the pastries.

Coffee is always on........

How about a donut?

Cookies?

Veggies?

Snacks?

[Kathy in Alaska]

God bless and keep safe our troops worldwide.

Good night.

Statler Brothers ~ How Great Thou Art

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, E, and a Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours. ((HUGS))

Any teams playing this weekend? Ready for 2013?

[E.G.C.]

Sunday Morning Coffee Bump.

Yep, ready for 2013.

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THAT is a very interesting translation of that particular passage of Scripture. I have never seen it worded quite that way, but I like it!

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Linda has a LOT of stuffed animals. (they don’t squeak, but she loves them anyway!) They are actual toys made for human children, so I know they are non-toxic and safe. I WON’T buy doggie-toys because they are made in you-know-where.

She is very good with her toys, and doesn’t destroy them with her teeth!

Her favorite game is to toss them in the air to see if she can lodge them on a high object, like tables, the piano, even the KITCHEN CABINETS.

She chews on “VirBac” which are leather chews infused with a tooth cleaning and breath freshening agent, so she is “Kissing Sweet all Day Long”. They cost over $20.00 a month with s/h and tax, but worth every penny! She really loves them and does the dance of joy when I go to the pantry and get out the bag.

She also does the dance of joy when we prepare to go yard saling.

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Ooooo. the TRITONE! In a MASS? naughty Naughty!

For years, Music teachers taught that the tritone was a very yucky sounding interval, and should probably only be used in scarey music, music about death or judgement, dark stuff. Yet here it is in the Part of the Mass that is about Glory!

I just LOVED it when Leonard Bernstein used the tritone over and over in one of the most ROMANTIC songs on Broadway.

Ma-—RI-a! I JUST met a GIRL named Ma- RI-a! LOL!

(That’ll show ‘em!) Leonard was known for his somewhat rebellious nature. But, he was such a genius so I guess he was entitled. Ha Ha.

Sounds like Franz did it before Leonard did!

[Arrowhead1952]

Good morning to everyone at the Canteen. Have a Blessed Sunday.

[Publius]

Before the organ became the main instrument of church music, there were wind and brass choirs. For years, the Roman Church objected to the slide version of the sackbutt, aka the trombone, because the slide turned the instrument from a horn pitched in B-flat up through a horn ptched in E. This was the tritone, and the belief was that there was literally "the devil in the horn." It took a while before the trombone was welcomed into brass choirs.

It's interesting that both Bernstein and Schubert should play it this way because both were gay.

Schubert's six masses feature the Creed shorn of some of the things people were supposed to believe. In fact, as Schubert composed the later masses, he removed more and more from the Creed. By the time of his sixth mass in E-flat, he has to wrap Latin phrases around each other in ways that don't make sense in order to cut out the parts of the Creed in which he no longer believes. One of Schubert's friends summed it up by saying to him, "Ah, Franz, I think one god is too few for you."

In his years as a young student at the Vienna Choir Boys School, Schubert ran into a lot of dumb priests who were teachers, and I think he was rubbing their collective noses in his cleverness.

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I knew about Leonard, but I did not know about Franz.

Yep..that Ol’ “Devil’s Interval” will get you every time!

I am glad they changed the name of the “Sackbutt” to “Trombone”. I don’t know if I could ever listen to a marching band with a “straight” face if a whole section were playing the “Sackbutt”.

[Publius]

I recommend Franz Schubert: A Biography by Elizabeth Norman McKay. It's become the definitive book on the composer, and it's quite eye-opening.

I also recommend "The Double Life of Franz Schubert", a British TV production available on DVD.

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Thanks!

I do know that one of Franz Schubert’s most beloved songs “Ave Maria” was actually composed about a totally different “Lady”, the “Lady of the Lake”. Some Sheet Music carries the original title.

[Publius]

Correct. "The Lady of the Lake", by Walter Scott, was translated into German by Adam Storck. One of the poems in "Lady" was titled "Ellen's Song III". This was the source of Schubert's "Ave Maria".

When one of Schubert's buddies told him that people were starting to think he had discovered piety, he got a good laugh. Some stories of how this song, with the piety angle, was composed are still wrong and out of date. One of the worst was even excerpted at FR.

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The Latin words to “Ave Maria” work VERY nicely to the Melody, though.

I write political parodies, and the BEST melodies for this activity are Classical.

A sample from 2005:

(Polovetzian Dance #1)

(Sopranos) Ignore me,
I’m a barking moonbat
A throwback to ‘63,
a liberal democrat
Don’t know left from right,
even if you just told me that
my bark is worse than my bite
I wear a tin foil hat

(altos) How ‘bout me? I love the environment
So much I’ll spike a tree
Or blow up an SUV
Or—maybe— set a torch
to a new development
Or raid a research lab
and set all the rats free!

(All)Take my name off your email mailing list
You guys are all the same
So I’m voting socialist
I’m calling good things “bad”
And I’m calling evil “good”
I get all my wisdom from
the weirdos in Hollywood.

I have also written silly words to Beethoven’s 7th Symphony 2nd Movement that sounds like the labyrinth of a telephone answering device.

I am the Political Weird Al of Classical Music.

[Publius]

Clever!

Here's an exercise for you.

In 1826, when he was reaching the peak of his powers, Schubert set a number of poems by Ernst Schulze, an insane poet, to music. This one is rock and roll, and it's Schubert's "Born to Run". It's the story of a man riding his horse through the woods on the way to his girlfriend. Change the words to a man riding his Harley down the two-lane blacktop, and you have a song for Springsteen. Just add guitar and drums.

Graham Johnson's liner notes are on the left side here.

You can find the words in English and German here.

Schubert: "On the Bridge"

[Jet Jaguar]

Ma, it is +37 degrees outside.

Amazing change.

[luvie]

Providence~Mansion Robe and Crown.wma

Glad~Before the Throne Of God Above

Cathedrals~Wonderful Grace of Jesus

Glad~Arise My Soul, Arise

Gaither Homecoming~Heaven's Joy Awaits.wma

Tad Robinson~No More Night

The Imperials~Sweet, Sweet Spirit

Have a blessed Sunday