Just another quiet Tuesday...
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klsiegel320Sitting in the office, auditing a RealOne playlist that's going to become a Lent Anthology on CD as soon as I can figure out how to get it to a computer with a CD burner...if we weren't talking about 100+ MB of music, I'd mail it to my husband, but...we are, so I won't.
Other than that, it's quiet as the very tomb. I've done what needs doing (what little it is), and I've paid several donations that were sitting in the mail waiting for me, and I've organized this anthology and weeded out which version of a couple things I actually wanted to use. I mislaid a tape that had one of the desired tracks on it, which bummed me out until I realized that with the items I added from new finds, I was still well over 80 minutes of music...
I suppose I could post the list of music I've picked, and why...that would take up a little time...
Note that this anthology is composed of hymns from a variety of recorded sources, and right now with the resources I have, I can't necessarily give much detail. If desired, details can be provided later.
1. Eternal light, shine in my heart
2. Lord Jesus, think on me (from Hills of the North, Rejoice, which is the third volume in the English Hymns series; good gloomy Lenten hymn)
3. O Lord and ruler of the hosts of heaven (from Splendor and Honor, a CD of assorted canticles and service music, available from Church Publishing Corp.; this is a lovely chanted version of the Prayer of Manasseh; also good Lenten repentance stuff)
4. Lenten Preface I (from Lord, Open Our Lips - a three-CD set of service music available from Church Publishing, designed to improve the sung services in churches; a God-send for someone making anthologies and wanting to toss in odd things like the Exsultet or the proper preface)
5. Open Thou Mine Eyes (an anthem set by John Rutter; gorgeous
stuff)
6. There's a Wideness in God's Mercy (not the old Sunday school tune, but a different and more haunting one, beautifully rendered by a soprano-alto duet who call themselves The Miserable Offenders; to my knowledge, they only have two CDs out, but they're good to have)
7. Come, thou fount of ev'ry blessing
8. My Shepherd will supply my need (one of the two hymn paraphrases of Psalm 23 that I really love; in this setting, it's an anthem duet between two men's voices, using a tune I'd never heard before - absolutely gorgeous)
9. The Call (Come my Way, my Truth, my Life) (a lovely hymn setting by Ralph Vaughn Williams of a poem by George Herbert)
10. Remember your servants, Lord (an Anglican chant setting of the Beatitudes)
11. O holy city, seen of John (gorgeous; I was disappointed when I first heard this, because the tune was unfamiliar, but it grows on you; this again is a good, thoughtful hymn for Lent: "Oh, shame to us who rest content, while lust and greed for gain, in street and shop and tenement, wring gold from human pain, and bitter lips in blind despair cry, "Christ hath died in vain!")
12. Beautiful River (an arrangement of Shall We Gather at the River by the aforementioned Miserable Offenders)
13. Lord God, you now have set your servant free (a hymn paraphrase of the Song of Simeon)
14. Psalm 42/As Longs the Deer (another Miserable Offenders arrangement; in fact there are several in here; usually arrangements of existing hymns)
15. King of glory, king of peace (words by George Herbert, set to the hymn tune Seminary (the "school song" of General Seminary, in NY))
16. Lenten Preface II (the point halfway through Lent when things start to get darker)
17. Breathe on Me, Breath of God (Miserable Offenders)
18. Morning glory, starlit sky (a lovely hymn about how all of nature and all the things we love are gifts of God, and how love looks when lived fully)
19. Psalm 139/Lord, thou hast searched me
20. The King of love my shepherd is (the other well-known paraphrase of Psalm 23, usually sung to the tune Columba)
21. Where You Are (Miserable Offenders; about not having to find God "somewhere else")
22. God be in my head (another Rutter anthem)
23. Pay Attention (Miserable Offenders; about being here and now, not always looking to be somewhere or somewhen else)
24. For the beauty of the earth (Rutter anthem)
25. Steal Away (Miserable Offenders; arrangement of a spiritual)
26. Forty days and forty nights (The English Hymnal 3)
27. Covenant Song (Miserable Offenders; about how we find God in the journey, not in the destination)
28. A Gaelic Blessing (Rutter)
And at this point, we're off to Holy Week (an anthology all of its own).
Basically, I've chosen things to make me think, or remind me to think, to be attentive, to be alert, to be present. And I've chosen carefully so that I can sing along with most of it in the car.
Challenging, converting this into a CD format - ripping the tracks and organizing them is no trouble, but getting recordings of the things that exist only on cassette, and fiddling with what's in and what's out to fit the more limited CD length (I used 110-minute cassettes for these when I had a cassette player in the car; that's twenty more minutes than I've got on the most magnanimous CD-R) - these are challenging.
Well, there, that took a minute. Or two. Sigh...
Other than that, it's quiet as the very tomb. I've done what needs doing (what little it is), and I've paid several donations that were sitting in the mail waiting for me, and I've organized this anthology and weeded out which version of a couple things I actually wanted to use. I mislaid a tape that had one of the desired tracks on it, which bummed me out until I realized that with the items I added from new finds, I was still well over 80 minutes of music...
I suppose I could post the list of music I've picked, and why...that would take up a little time...
Note that this anthology is composed of hymns from a variety of recorded sources, and right now with the resources I have, I can't necessarily give much detail. If desired, details can be provided later.
1. Eternal light, shine in my heart
2. Lord Jesus, think on me (from Hills of the North, Rejoice, which is the third volume in the English Hymns series; good gloomy Lenten hymn)
3. O Lord and ruler of the hosts of heaven (from Splendor and Honor, a CD of assorted canticles and service music, available from Church Publishing Corp.; this is a lovely chanted version of the Prayer of Manasseh; also good Lenten repentance stuff)
4. Lenten Preface I (from Lord, Open Our Lips - a three-CD set of service music available from Church Publishing, designed to improve the sung services in churches; a God-send for someone making anthologies and wanting to toss in odd things like the Exsultet or the proper preface)
5. Open Thou Mine Eyes (an anthem set by John Rutter; gorgeous
stuff)
6. There's a Wideness in God's Mercy (not the old Sunday school tune, but a different and more haunting one, beautifully rendered by a soprano-alto duet who call themselves The Miserable Offenders; to my knowledge, they only have two CDs out, but they're good to have)
7. Come, thou fount of ev'ry blessing
8. My Shepherd will supply my need (one of the two hymn paraphrases of Psalm 23 that I really love; in this setting, it's an anthem duet between two men's voices, using a tune I'd never heard before - absolutely gorgeous)
9. The Call (Come my Way, my Truth, my Life) (a lovely hymn setting by Ralph Vaughn Williams of a poem by George Herbert)
10. Remember your servants, Lord (an Anglican chant setting of the Beatitudes)
11. O holy city, seen of John (gorgeous; I was disappointed when I first heard this, because the tune was unfamiliar, but it grows on you; this again is a good, thoughtful hymn for Lent: "Oh, shame to us who rest content, while lust and greed for gain, in street and shop and tenement, wring gold from human pain, and bitter lips in blind despair cry, "Christ hath died in vain!")
12. Beautiful River (an arrangement of Shall We Gather at the River by the aforementioned Miserable Offenders)
13. Lord God, you now have set your servant free (a hymn paraphrase of the Song of Simeon)
14. Psalm 42/As Longs the Deer (another Miserable Offenders arrangement; in fact there are several in here; usually arrangements of existing hymns)
15. King of glory, king of peace (words by George Herbert, set to the hymn tune Seminary (the "school song" of General Seminary, in NY))
16. Lenten Preface II (the point halfway through Lent when things start to get darker)
17. Breathe on Me, Breath of God (Miserable Offenders)
18. Morning glory, starlit sky (a lovely hymn about how all of nature and all the things we love are gifts of God, and how love looks when lived fully)
19. Psalm 139/Lord, thou hast searched me
20. The King of love my shepherd is (the other well-known paraphrase of Psalm 23, usually sung to the tune Columba)
21. Where You Are (Miserable Offenders; about not having to find God "somewhere else")
22. God be in my head (another Rutter anthem)
23. Pay Attention (Miserable Offenders; about being here and now, not always looking to be somewhere or somewhen else)
24. For the beauty of the earth (Rutter anthem)
25. Steal Away (Miserable Offenders; arrangement of a spiritual)
26. Forty days and forty nights (The English Hymnal 3)
27. Covenant Song (Miserable Offenders; about how we find God in the journey, not in the destination)
28. A Gaelic Blessing (Rutter)
And at this point, we're off to Holy Week (an anthology all of its own).
Basically, I've chosen things to make me think, or remind me to think, to be attentive, to be alert, to be present. And I've chosen carefully so that I can sing along with most of it in the car.
Challenging, converting this into a CD format - ripping the tracks and organizing them is no trouble, but getting recordings of the things that exist only on cassette, and fiddling with what's in and what's out to fit the more limited CD length (I used 110-minute cassettes for these when I had a cassette player in the car; that's twenty more minutes than I've got on the most magnanimous CD-R) - these are challenging.
Well, there, that took a minute. Or two. Sigh...
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Sounds intriguing
Date: 2004-03-03 12:27 pm (UTC)I'd loan you my portable CD burner if we lived anywhere near each other. . . handy little beastie. We bought it around Christmas of '02 so we could get data off the laptop such as digital pictures. Then last May we bought a new desktop PC that had an internal CD/DVD burner, so the external one doesn't get used much. [I do need to back up some vacation pictures from the laptop hard drive the next time I think of it, though. (Making mental note)]
Re: Sounds intriguing
Date: 2004-03-04 05:32 am (UTC)Re: Sounds intriguing
Date: 2004-03-04 10:22 am (UTC)