A few weeks ago emmanuelg posted "Singing is about the only mystical/spiritual thing remaining in many branches of Protestant Christianity." I'm sad to have to agree with that. I too feel part of the mystical body of believers, everyone who has ever participated in worship by singing that hymn, when I sing older hymns especially. Sadly, those hymns are disappearing from Christian worship, and many that remain are frequently modernized to the point where I feel that they lose their power. Why might that be? Don't most Christians feel the same way I do when singing those? Are their consciences damaged by their participation in the depradations of popular society, to the point where they don't feel worthy? Or are no longer spiritually sensitive? God, please grant me the grace that my heart does not grow hard. I played the YouTube music links that emmanuelg posted right away. Nice stuff. After playing the last link, the link below, Mass for Two Choirs and Two Organs by Charles Marie Widor came up. It's music that I listen to when, as my kids say, I'm "in a mood". Well, from the previous links YouTube must have decided that I was "in a mood". Fair warning--Widor is a bit of a madman and this piece has the weight of a freighter going 90 miles/hour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnXrIE4odhY For those with more delicate sensibilities, Fernando Ortega is way less forceful and transcendently beautiful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-ZAQwXZ7YQ Voces 8 transcendently beautiful, not always explicitly Christian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKgUxqXoc9M
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Singing
Date: 2023-10-02 01:42 pm (UTC)Why might that be? Don't most Christians feel the same way I do when singing those? Are their consciences damaged by their participation in the depradations of popular society, to the point where they don't feel worthy? Or are no longer spiritually sensitive? God, please grant me the grace that my heart does not grow hard.
I played the YouTube music links that emmanuelg posted right away. Nice stuff. After playing the last link, the link below, Mass for Two Choirs and Two Organs by Charles Marie Widor came up. It's music that I listen to when, as my kids say, I'm "in a mood". Well, from the previous links YouTube must have decided that I was "in a mood". Fair warning--Widor is a bit of a madman and this piece has the weight of a freighter going 90 miles/hour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnXrIE4odhY
For those with more delicate sensibilities, Fernando Ortega is way less forceful and transcendently beautiful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-ZAQwXZ7YQ
Voces 8 transcendently beautiful, not always explicitly Christian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKgUxqXoc9M