Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras
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I'm in musical heaven.
The local Congregational Church is doing the Brahms Requiem for Palm Sunday, and has recruited us as extra singers to help out. I adore the Brahms Requiem beyond all recognition or logic, so I'm just thrilled to have the opportunity to sing it again.
Because this is an emotional piece for me....
galagan and I don't have a song of our own in the traditional couple-y sense, but he has remarked that if we had a song, it would be the Brahms Requiem. The second movement. Nothin' says "I love you forever sweetie" like "Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras".
galagan and I met at the concert the first time I sang this piece. It was the summer of 1996, and
sanj and
megastoat and I were singing the Brahms with the Harvard Radcliffe Chorus. They had met him previously, but I hadn't - we were introduced before the concert, standing outside the church where we were performing. He was standing in line with
megastoat's parents. Me in my concert black. After the concert, we all went to the Big Cake Place in Harvard Square.
So whenever I hear this piece, it takes me smack back into that summer, and into the subsequent fall. And no, it wasn't love at first sight or anything like that. But that was a lovely time in my life (okay, in hindsight it's lovely), and it's lovely to be reminded of it.
galagan says that now this piece reminds him of his mother - when she died last summer, he listened to the Requiem a lot.
And oh, it's just a joy and a delight to sing. The Beethoven our Chorale is doing is so hard and so challenging and still a struggle - so it's wonderful to just sing out on a piece I know so well, and love so much.
For a church choir, these guys aren't bad. And they're already trying to recruit us - especially because getting us to sing "would be like two for the price of one! a tenor and a sop!" But I need to join a Christian church like I need a hole in my head. Actually, I might prefer the hole.
The local Congregational Church is doing the Brahms Requiem for Palm Sunday, and has recruited us as extra singers to help out. I adore the Brahms Requiem beyond all recognition or logic, so I'm just thrilled to have the opportunity to sing it again.
Because this is an emotional piece for me....
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So whenever I hear this piece, it takes me smack back into that summer, and into the subsequent fall. And no, it wasn't love at first sight or anything like that. But that was a lovely time in my life (okay, in hindsight it's lovely), and it's lovely to be reminded of it.
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And oh, it's just a joy and a delight to sing. The Beethoven our Chorale is doing is so hard and so challenging and still a struggle - so it's wonderful to just sing out on a piece I know so well, and love so much.
For a church choir, these guys aren't bad. And they're already trying to recruit us - especially because getting us to sing "would be like two for the price of one! a tenor and a sop!" But I need to join a Christian church like I need a hole in my head. Actually, I might prefer the hole.