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Hi everyone. Have a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving. I wish you happy train traveling, and good company. I am grateful and have much to be thankful for this year.
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Railroads (but not passenger related "fan talk') will surely be mentioned at my Thanksgiving as I accepted an invitation from my next door neighbors. Even if my hosts are an Attorney and College Professor, "Prof's' Father is a retired UP Locomotive Engineer (held seniority over the C&EI lines) and her Brother is a UP Trainmaster at Proviso.
Both plan to be there.
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Happy Thanksgiving to all of my RailForum friends! I am doing turkey day on Friday this year, due to a nightmare of logistical problems....but I will fly down to Burbank on Friday morning and spend the day with family in Sun Valley. Can't wait to go! Safe travels, everyone.
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Happy Thanksgiving to all, and to all a good night...wait, that's for next month. I'll be in bucolic La Grange CA with two sons home from college (reason I don't take many trips anywhere right now), one daughter and one son-in-law. Shoot some trap, eat well, and work the horses. Couldn't be happier.
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I knew that the Virginia Sargent lyrics had been set to the music of John Rutter, but my Episcopal church (well, at least that is what the Dog Tags said I was) , which is of course my measuring block for liturgical muisc, still retains the traditional Dix melody:
quote:Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: Thanks for locating such, Mr. Presley.
I knew that the Virginia Sargent lyrics had been set to the music of John Rutter, but my Episcopal church (well, at least that is what the Dog Tags said I was) , which is of course my measuring block for liturgical muisc, still retains the traditional Dix melody:
I played (trumpet) in church last Sunday evening and it was our playing the traditional Dix melody which inspired me to go searching YouTube for John Rutter's setting.
I like Rutter's writing a great deal. I'm musician enough to appreciate great artistry.....but not musician enough to quit my 'day job'.
I'll add that I have often been surprised by the number of musicians I've met who are serious railroad enthusiasts.....but that's another thread.
Time now to head over the river (more of a creek actually) and through the woods for Thanksgiving dinner.
Again, Happy Thanksgiving one and all.
-------------------- David Pressley
Advocating for passenger trains since 1973!
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David- what an interesting music selection... Our choir just sang that in church a couple weeks ago!
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Happy Thanksgiving to All here, the turkey is in the smoker for a good six hour smoke.
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I would think that Rutter, be his work sacred or secular, would be difficult for any others than those with training to master. All too often on my visits to various houses of worship (yes, I go) the congregation is confronted with a musical work they either "don't know" or 'can't sing'.
Last August, at a Memorial Service for a neighbor, there was a hymn that obviously is important to her family and is #351 in the United Church of Christ's hymnal. But be that as it may, and especially for those us attending who practice other faiths, if any, "nobody knew it" - and with predictable results.
At my Father's Memorial, I got one hymn; and I wanted my School's hymn (tune) because I'll admit "it's important to me'. But, since the Episcopal Church saw fit to drop this hymn some twenty years ago, I'm afraid it was a case of the organist perfoming a solo. Oh well, at least when I next go back for Reunion (50th) come 2011, there will be a chapel full of 'Lums who know it by heart.
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GBN- Actually it was the Rutter version, We rehearsed it for many weeks as we were having a visit from the Bishop (United Methodist). We do have the Dix version in our hymnal which we sing 2-3 times a year.
And just to keep on topic, this is the first time in many years I didn't see the std. employee advisory regarding Turkey dinner in Diner for holiday...
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I would think that Rutter, be his work sacred or secular, would be difficult for any others than those with training to master. All too often on my visits to various houses of worship (yes, I go) the congregation is confronted with a musical work they either "don't know" or 'can't sing'.
Last August, at a Memorial Service for a neighbor, there was a hymn that obviously is important to her family and is #351 in the United Church of Christ's hymnal. But be that as it may, and especially for those us attending who practice other faiths, if any, "nobody knew it" - and with predictable results.
I'm reminded of Garrison Keillor's tongue in cheek bit titled 'The Young Lutheran's Guide to the Symphony' in which the author opines "Many young Lutherans are blessed with the talent for music.....though not so many as who believe so."
But seriously, with any adult amatuer musical organization, be it a church choir or a community band, it is a constant challenge to select music which can be made performance ready in the limited rehearsal time available AND which has enough 'meat' to hold the interest of the better musicians in the ensemble.
At one point in my post Army Bandsman life I played with a Community Band that had the honor of being invited to perform a concert at the State Music Educator's Convention. The 'showpiece' was a certain challenging composition by Alfred Reed held over from the previous season. I believe we must have spent half of every rehearsal for about 18 months on that one piece. It was performed at convention and performed well BUT I have lost interest in that particular piece going forward now.
-------------------- David Pressley
Advocating for passenger trains since 1973!
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That tune (Dix version) is in the United Methodist Hymnal -- we have sung that in our Church on several occasions (including last Sunday, I believe)
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