MB CIVIL SUIT UPDATE #10 K’s Request to Adjourn (delay) DENIED 11/01/22

[MHM]

That is very cool!!

[Fiesta01]

Mozart’s Requiem Mass for me. Sang it many times with both high school and university choirs and full orchestras.

[Ambitious_Kate]

Gabriel’s Message is one I really like, based on a 13th century basque carol. Here’s one of Sting’s versions. It would be fun to have all kinds of interesting musical arraingments to do this one for xmas. I love medievel liturgical music,. here’s one link to it. Enjoy

Gabriel's Message

[FitzE]

There is a sublime version of this on the New College programme.

[Ambitious_Kate]

what is “The New College Programme”?

[LiberalSnowflake]

@erinmeri

@FitzE

I allow Christmas music the day after Thanksgiving. Same with decorations. Not before!

Heathen!

I will say, I like Christmas music of all stripes. I love the apparently bemoaned Mariah Carey song, like most other “modern” ones (except for Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree), and I cry every time I am at a service that does the Silent Night/Peace on Earth medley like my childhood church does in rounds. Have seen it elsewhere, and it’s so moving… especially if there is a good choir and a candle lighting involved.

That said, my favorite Christmas song (and this may be divisive), is Fairytale of New York by the Pogues. Not sure what that says about me…

ETA:
https://youtu.be/j9jbdgZidu8

Best Christmas song EVER.

Side note, I was at a Pogues gig years and years ago, relatively close to the front, and one of Shane’s teeth fell out and into the crowd as he was singing - that man had some SERIOUS dental hygiene problems. I’m always surprised he’s still alive, but he’s cleaned himself up a lot now and has a good Irish woman keeping him on the straight and narrow.

[LiberalSnowflake]

@KurPlexed

Bocelli anyone?

https://www.movieguide.org/news-articles/andrea-bocelli-records-new-christmas-album-with-youngest-son-and-daughter.html

Side note - Bocelli has had horses and been a rider since he was a child.

[FitzE]

The one I referenced above. Here is a link and this is the one I’m referring to, Nativitas. So, so good.

https://www.singers.com/group/Oxford-New-College-Choir/

[Ambitious_Kate]

Thank you, I’m finishing my shift at the hospital, and these are fabulous links to some great new stuff for me, and I will thoroughly enjoy diving into this stuff when I get home! Yay!

[FitzE]

Oh, that breaks my heart for him. I’m sure he rolled with it, but teeth issues are so painful and difficult and bring such shame to people. Bless his heart. I hadn’t heard he’d gotten all cleaned up, but good man himself. I hope he got help with his teeth, too. I wish dental care was more prioritised in healthcare. I’ve known of folks who start having malnutrition issues just b/c of dentition issues. So heartbreaking.

[FitzE]

I don’t know many who are familiar with this one, but I love love love this song and this arrangement specifically.

[FitzE]

@Ambitious_Kate - This version of A Spotless Rose is from that disc and is super lovely.

A Spotless Rose (Herbert Howells) - New College Oxford

[Ambitious_Kate]

Nice to get these recommendations!

[Ambitious_Kate]

@KurPlexed

Bocelli anyone?

I look forward to this, too!

[LiberalSnowflake]

@FitzE

Oh, that breaks my heart for him. I’m sure he rolled with it, but teeth issues are so painful and difficult and bring such shame to people. Bless his heart. I hadn’t heard he’d gotten all cleaned up, but good man himself. I hope he got help with his teeth, too. I wish dental care was more prioritised in healthcare. I’ve known of folks who start having malnutrition issues just b/c of dentition issues. So heartbreaking.

His tooth loss was totally self inflicted by consuming elephantine quantities of drugs and alcohol as a younger man, and he’s now got false teeth. He’s wheelchair bound after a fall, but Victoria keeps him as well as she can. That he’s got to the age of 64, after the life he’s lead, boggles my mind.

[Ambitious_Kate]

@FitzE

NPR carries 9 Lessons and Caroles in the US for anyone who wants to listen. It’s not really Christmas until we hear ‘Once in Royal David’s City’ begin!

And, now, here is where I lose all my friends: I cannot stand ‘Hallelujah’ by Leonard Cohen. I don’t care who sings, where they sing it, or why they sing it. It is absolutely awful and the lyrics/forced rhymes are

I want that to never hear that song again. Ever.

I’ll show myself out.

For my family, its not Christmas until we’ve heard David Sedaris’ Santaland Diaries

Santaland Diaries - This American Life

And David Rakoff’s Christmas Freud,

Christmas Freud - This American Life

on This american Life. Rolling on the floor funny.

[3PonyFarm]

I dont think my cats could destroy that. I like it!

[jaj]

I didn’t think he’d make it.

[Bogey2]

I love this! I also listen to Gregorian Chants when I am needing some quiet reflection around Christmas. It’s so relaxing. The Vienna Boys Choir is back again this year, looking forward to the concert.

[eggbutt]

This is one of my all time favorites! I’m a child again everytime I hear it!

John Williams - Somewhere in my memory