Today’s music evokes a specific memory – but not a specific place, unless you count the inside of a plane 😃
Religious
Change Of Style
There are many great musicians around who are masters within their chosen genre – a much less common skill is the ability to really pull it off when switching from one style to another – plenty of examples of people not quite managing that! Wynton Marsalis is just one example – I have heard him play classical and jazz effortlessly.
A New Take On An Old Hymn
A familiar hymn today – maybe an unfamiliar arrangement
Sunday Humour
This is a bit different to my ‘usual’ Sunday choices – but it seemed so appropriate 😁 – and humour is such an important facet of our lives every day.
Jazz Sunday
A little New Orleans Jazz for Sunday this week. This is invariably the opening number in Canadian Brass Concerts – I first head it on a recording (Unexplored Territory) – and don’t worry – the opening is supposed to sound like an old ’78’ recording – your audio hasn’t gone funny!!
For John Lewis
Change of plan tonight – having been watching coverage of the funeral of John Lewis it seems very appropriate to share this music instead of what I had planned. The words of this song are a good motto for anyone.
Another Bruckner Motet
The only difficulty when it comes to choosing something by Bruckner for a Sunday offering is that there is so much to choose from! Its been a while since we had one of his motets – here is his Ave Maria – another example of why he is (probably) my favourite composer)
Perhaps An Unexpected Source of Religious Music
Today’s choice is Stravinsky’s setting of Psalm 150 – the third and final movement of his Symphony of Psalms. When I played this with the Glasgow University this was very new music to me and I wasn’t sure whether I liked listening to it – even though it was good to play.
Power Of Your Love
My Sunday choice is a great arrangement (at least I think so😉) of Hillsong Music’s “The Power of Your Love”.
Norman Bearcroft
There have been many tributes paid to Norman Bearcroft over the last couple of days and this is adding another – not just on my own behalf, but also from Boscombe Band of the Salvation Army. This recording is from their Sanctuary Volume II CD and is an ideal piece of music for a tribute and a farewell.