Conference lgp30::christian-perspective

    Modern digital technology has given tremendous new abilities to
    the keyboard.  I've heard the sound of human voices replicated
    so perfectly from a programmed keyboard that I started looking for
    the choir.  To tell you the truth, it was a little eerie.
    
    A grace note be with you,
    Richard

I recall listening to a record album (That's what they had before CD's,
for all you youngsters) over and over in the late '60's called "The
Mass in F Minor," by the Electric Prunes.

The words sung were in Latin by male voices and had a Gregorian chant-like
quality to them.  The sound of the instruments was what might be described
as "pre-Heavy Metal."  Some, I believe, called it "Acid Rock":  Searing
electric guitars, throbbing drumbeats, all fighting for attention.

In fact, one of the cuts from the album was used in the movie, "Easy Rider,"
as the protagonists, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, were experiencing an
LSD trip.

Peace,
Richard

 Ah....the Electric Prunes.  One big hit as I recall.








Jim

    .3  The "Mass in F Minor" wasn't a big hit.  The Electric Prunes
    was one of those studio contrived groups that changed members
    like underwear.  The record company owned the name.
    
    Peace,
    Richard
    

 Right...their big hit was "Too much to Dream".



 Rather than start a discussion on a definition of hit, I'll say it
got a lot of airplay.




Jim

    The one hit was "(I Had) Too Much to Dream (Last Night)"
    or something like that.  I think it was in early 1967.
    One of my all time favorite songs.

    I had an experience with music that was quite profound.
    While listening to Ode to Joy I read the translation.  That
    was intense by itself.  But then I realized that Beethovan
    wrote every single note of that symphony as a devotion to
    God...  The love felt/experienced must have been overpowering.

    What could be nicer?

    Tom

 Hmmm...I thought it was later than 67 cuz I seem to recall the song
 reminding me of a girlfriend withwhom I broke up in 1968..YIKES!! 25
 years ago Monday.



Jim who apologizes for ratholing the topic :-)

    I recall a handful of recordings with a religious message that made
    it fairly big on the pop charts a number of years back.  Since there
    seems to be a number of C-P noters who are close to my age, this may
    be like a waltz down Memory Lane:
    
    "(Put Your) Hand in the Hand (of the Man Who Stilled the Waters)"
    
    "Day by Day"
    
    "Suzanne" [written by Leonard Cohen, the second verse]
    
    "Why Me, Lord?" [by Kris Kristofferson]
    
    "Amazing Grace" [by Judy Collins]
    
    "My Sweet Lord" [by George Harrison]
    
    Feel free to add to these.
    
    Peace,
    Richard

Re: .8 Richard

>    "(Put Your) Hand in the Hand (of the Man Who Stilled the Waters)"
>    
>    "Day by Day"
    
I loved those songs!  (Still do, even as a non-Christian now.)  Was "Day
by Day" from "Godspell"?

>    "My Sweet Lord" [by George Harrison]
    
"Hari Krishna, Hari Rama".  Yep, that's a good example of Christian music
all right. :-)

I was going to mention some songs that I like that have religious themes,
but then I realized that they mostly have anti-religous them, or at least
anti-Christian themes.  One song which I'm not sure is on the level or not:

"Jesus Is Just Alright With Me" by the Doobie Brothers

				-- Bob

  Day by Day was from Godspell



 Jim

 Oh Happy Day






 Jim

>  Day by Day was from Godspell

Thought we went through this just a little while ago, right here in
this very conference.

Day by Day was written by Bishop Richard of Chichester, who lived
from 1197-1253.

It was set to the tune Sumner by Arthur Henry Biggs specifically for
the Episcopal Hymnal 1940.

Is there _any_ original music in Godspell?

/john

Re: .12 John

>Thought we went through this just a little while ago, right here in
>this very conference.

I must have missed reading that note - maybe I was a little too heavy on
the "next unseen" key that day.

				-- Bob

 Guess I wasn't in the conference then

Sorry, it was somewhere else.  But only about two or three weeks ago.

/john

There are a number of songs I've heard used during worship that might be
considered secular, but might have some significance to the worshiping
community.  Among them:

"One Tin Soldier" (or the theme from "Billy Jack")

	Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
	  Go ahead and cheat a friend;
	Do it in the name of freedom,
	   You can justify it in the end.

"Morning Has Broken" (Recorded by Cat Stevens who later became a Moslem.
		      I liked Stevens' "Peace Train," but it's too difficult
		      to sing in a group.)

Peace,
Richard

Cat Stevens recorded "Morning has broken", but he didn't write it:

Morning has broken like the first morning,
Blackbird has spoken like the first bird.
Praise for the singing!  Praise for the morning!
Praise for them, springing fresh from the Word!		<--- !! major Christian
								reference.
Sweet the rain's new fall sunlit from heaven,
Like the first dew fall on the first grass.
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden,
Sprung in completeness where His feet pass.

Mine is the sunlight!  Mine is the morning
Born of the one light Eden saw play!                    Words: Eleanor Farjeon
Praise with elation, praise every morning,		Tune: Bunessan,
God's re-creation of the new day!			   (Traditional Gaelic)

    I really like:
    "Traveling Shoes" by Maria Muldar and "Your Gonna Need Somebody on your
    Bond"...written by Buffy St. Marie and Sung by Taj Mahal( both UMass
    graduates...along with myself).
    
    Marc H.

re: Note 751.17 by /john

> Cat Stevens recorded "Morning has broken", but he didn't write it:

>	Words: Eleanor Farjeon
>	Tune: Bunessan,
>	(Traditional Gaelic)

As I recall from my choir director, Eleanor had writted the poem, and one day 
heard an Irish laborer whistling the tune as he was going down the street.
She realized her poem fit the music, invited him into her home, and
transcribed the melody. 

Peace,

Jim

        1).  The classic country and western hit: "Drop Kick Me Jesus Through
    the Goalposts of Life!"  
    
        2). The hit by the Birds, I think the title of which was "Turn, Turn,
    Turn."  At the White House signing of the Israel-PLO pease accords,
    Israeli Prime Minister Rabin quoted from the Bible verse that the Birds
    used for their song. A very touching and moving reference.
    
         Mike
    

    .20 That second hit you mentioned was composed by Pete Seeger (with
    a little help from God).  Most of the words came from the book of
    Ecclesiates.
    
    Your nodename is of particular interest to me (SALEM::).  It means
    "peace."
    
    Shalom,
    Richard

    The Byrds -- a rock band of the mid to late 60s.
    The Birds -- a suspense/horror movie of the same period of time.
    
    :-)
    
    Steve

Prayer Music No. 1, "Dirge" composed by Masaru Kawasaki (b. 1924) is
performed every year on August 6th at the Hiroshima Peace Ceremony.
It was performed for the first time ever in the United States on
April 24th in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

The composer writes:

	"I had rejected for a long time the musical expression of my
tragic experience with the A-bomb.  Thirty years after Hiroshima, I
was finally able to confront my profound pain and express musically
my dark memories of August 6, 1945....

	"No matter how much many years pass, my horrible experiences
remain vivid."

	How many innocent children died in that horrific explosion!

Richard