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Tony Watson
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« Reply #15 on: 00:47:02, 03-04-2008 » |
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Thinking of requiems, and as I've admitted here before I'm not into religion so I'm no expert, I've sometimes wondered why we ask for eternal rest for the dead and at the same time hope that everlasting light will shine on them. Won't the light disrupt their rest? And aren't they supposed to be enjoying the delights of heaven, or are they expected to sleep through it all?
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« Reply #16 on: 00:53:08, 03-04-2008 » |
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Or as Beckett's Malone (or is it Molloy?) asks:
Would not the Beatific Vision become a source of boredom in the long run?
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #17 on: 01:10:55, 03-04-2008 » |
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Probable choice, if I have time to think about it and convey my wishes to somebody coherent...
Dowland's Fortune, My Foe, Purcell's Dido's Lament and Abba's Thank You For the Music
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« Reply #18 on: 08:12:41, 03-04-2008 » |
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Tony's quite right about the inconsistency of what can only be imagery.
The text of Rest eternal comes, I think, from an Apocryphal book of the Bible.
I would rather have Auld Lang Syne sung live by those present than a recording of anything, however sublime.
But as ahinton says, it is all for the benefit of those left behind.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #19 on: 22:26:46, 04-04-2008 » |
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Of course funeral music all very personal and for me would be music winding down into a peaceful conclusion and not sad
the final movements of vaughan williams fifth and sibelius sixth symphonies fit my psyche and fill me with peace
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« Reply #20 on: 09:59:47, 05-04-2008 » |
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In Parry's 'Songs of Farewell', there is that lovely movement, but for the life of me, I cant remember which one it is. Also, the other piece I would love to have is VWs 'Serenade to Music'. Rather appropriate, I think. And if there is any room for another, be the hymn 'Lead Kindly Light'.
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« Reply #21 on: 14:59:54, 05-04-2008 » |
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Nice. I think I'd go for New Orleans-style.
Little anecdote about fortitude-I was in a semi-pro band a few years back that engaged Susan Chilcott to sing the Four Last Songs. What we, indeed anyone, didn't know was that would have been probably her last public appearance. In the event she had to pull\out, her place was taken by a fab and pro bona
singer from ENO North , and SC so sadly passed away a few days later. But what guts and grace to intend to sing that of all scores at such a time!
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« Reply #22 on: 00:05:43, 06-04-2008 » |
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Purcell's Dido's Lament
Gosh Kitty: planning on going out w/ a bang then? |
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« Reply #23 on: 14:38:29, 06-04-2008 » |
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I should be so lucky. I said something that was misunderstood and it takes a long time to rebuild the shattered bridge. (Dido isn't normally spelled with an "L" is it?  ) |
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« Reply #24 on: 12:38:33, 11-04-2008 » |
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I should be so lucky Really? At your funeral I think the Purcell and Abba are both excellent choices, though! |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #25 on: 20:14:54, 11-04-2008 » |
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Bach cantata BWV 118, sung by the Monteverdi Choir, who will all be gathered around the graveside, then Mark Padmore singing "Waft her Angels" (also in person, of course)
The final bars of Beethovens 3rd Symph as they all turn away, that should raise a laugh as they all trip over each other.
Then a light aircraft with smoke writing "Thats all folks" in the sky above.
Yes.... I know.....
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Live simply that all may simply live
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« Reply #26 on: 20:39:41, 11-04-2008 » |
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I had always had in mind for mine Marilyn Monroe Bye Bye Baby (so totally cheesy) followed by Natalie Merchant's Ophelia. Yes, folks, you all know it. Opehelia, was a Bride of God, a Novice Carmelite, Ophelia was the rebel girl of blue-stockinged suffragetes who remedied Society between her cigarettes. Ophelia's mind went wandering .... All alone
Would reduce the congregations to tears I reckon! And is that not the purpose of funeral music - to make those left behind feel remorseful?
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #27 on: 22:17:57, 11-04-2008 » |
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I think i would have to have some late Liszt. Not sure what though as i think La Lugubre Gondola in any version is probably too long and miserable.
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Jonathan
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« Reply #28 on: 22:27:37, 11-04-2008 » |
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the congregations to tears I reckon! And is that not the purpose of funeral music
Not to make them feel remorseful, but to express their grief and fear in a safe context, so they can then get on and live their lives afterwards having acknowledged the need to grieve as part of life. This tendency to call funerals "a celebration of the life of so and so" is a good thing, that was never done in the past, I suspect, but to deny the element of grief and fear is to not face up to reality. And the trite liberal Christian view that "death is nothing at all" is pretty dire: this is the life we know, and what ever else may or may not be on offer, it is lost to us. And that is very upsetting, at the least. Again I put in my plea for congregational singing, even if the text is totally secular. You'll never walk alone sung badly by everyone is better than the Faure Requiem by the BBC Singers, in my mind. |
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
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