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| Mephistopheles (no-fixed@address.net) |
2006/12/13 16:41 |
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:42:13 GMT, Morpheus <Morpheu@Dreamland.org>
wrote:
>You can continue to snooze since you have Messiah all safely squirreled away.
>
Well, the first set of posts you did, I thought it was a MAC variation
of ROT13. ......LOL, with people here downloading blind.. Providing
the track titles as you subsequently have done certainly helps the
likes of me, merely by the reading of them, to start automatically
humming the tunes. So much stirring stuff there!
>Messiah is performed traditionally at Christmas in the U. S. usually during
>Advent even though it was originally written for and performed at Easter in
>the mid 1700's.
>
>In the larger cities in the States there are concerts featuring the entire
>work and many churches will feature one or more of the choruses in their
>Christmas concerts. I've sung most of the choruses at one time or another.
>One city (Boston if memory serves) offered a sing-along concert where
>everyone was given the music and words to the choruses and encouraged to sing
>along with the choir. I never went to one like that, but have seen it
>performed several times in different places.
>
>It reminds me of the military.....long periods of relative boredom punctuated
>by periods of intense excitement.
>
>I sang in the church youth choir (and later the adult choir) and was a
>'special' student of the organist and choir master. I used to sit in on the
>bench between his legs at the great organ keyboard while he showed me how it
>worked.
Say no more, my little goochy, goochy one!
> I had absolutely no idea what might have been going on at the time,
That's what they all say. LOL
>I was merely fascinated with his mighty organ! It had about several thousand
>pipes, the tallest being 32 feet and the smallest about the size of half a
>cigaret.
>
>I remember one Sunday one of the small pipes stuck open during the church
>service and I was dispatched to the pipe room to find it and close it. It
>wasn't easy...
Don't tell me...........when you came back it was to find another
hope you beat the crap out of the little upstart when you got him
outside. I did. LOL
>
>Oh what fun we had with the organ! LOL
Mephi
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