if music be the food of love, sing on

[sadie_cocopuff]

the highlights of my day were two pieces of music. the first: patrick's breastplate, a wonderful old hymn that we only get to sing once a year, and never actually on saint patrick's day. i was always fascinated by the rune in madeleine l'engle's a swiftly tilting planet, so it was cool to find it actually came from something. the second: a beautiful arrangement of psalm 23 by a composer named allen pote. i almost cried when we were singing it. for the record, i want it sung at my funeral and as many possible occasions until then.
and while i'm talking about music...the songs that make my favorites list at the moment:
daniel powter - bad day
the beatles - if i fell in love with you
eisley - memories
death cab for cutie - someday you will be loved
fall out boy - sugar we're goin' down
jimmy eat world - sweetness
the wonders - that thing you do
billy joel - the longest time
eisley - trolley wood

Comments

[pictureofapril.livejournal.com]

I think I'll make a "list" too....and Someday You Will Be Loved will be on mine, also. Pimptight song.

[sadie_cocopuff]

it is indeed

[mariusthedreary.livejournal.com]

Hello: This is Myra. I have added you. !!
:]

[sadie_cocopuff]

hey! i will add you too ;)

[octopodes.livejournal.com]

i love saint patrick's breastplate! i also love that one we only sang for graduations, the one that starts "come adoring and confessig, alleluia..."

[sadie_cocopuff]

that is a wonderful wonderful song. we sing it a lot during choir rehearsal just for the fun of it.

[zyx-hagen.livejournal.com]

I *love* St. Paddy's Breastplate. It's quite a lot of work to get through it, but it's sooo worth it.

My husband can really, really sing, but he hardly ever does, and he doesn't like churchy stuff. But at graduations and the other odd occasion at St. Mike's, I could pretty much count on him to start in on "Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones". He *knows* the hymns--when he was an undergraduate at UT a zillion years ago he was a paid chorister at St. David's (he's good, I tell ya), and he doesn't have to look at em, and he sang the actual bass line, and it was awesome.