Roger Wagner used to try to motivate his choral-seminar participants to "method-sing" the Kyrie. He'd ask them to imagine that they were suspended by a spider's thread above Hell--and the only way to avoid Hell was to sing Kyrie Eleison as though they actually meant it...A tudge different outlook from the one expressed by someone who asked me to find a "'livelier' Lord Have Mercy" to program.....
Of course, that was when there WAS Hell.
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Tuesday, 4 November 2008
How to sing a Kyrie
From Dad29 in a combox below, to wonderful not to enjoy a wider readership:
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A livelier Lord, Have Mercy?
/scratches head
I'm sorry, this does not compute.
Or as they say in the Little Britain series: "The Computer Says No."
Hi, Lyn, thanks for stopping by.
I'll be honest here, since no one I know IRL is likely to read the comboxes and recognize themselves, I actually changed the wording of the request, to protect the guilty -- the actual request, when I was helping with school Masses was, "Why can't we have a nice peppy Kyrie?"
I bit my tongue at the meeting rather than say to the nice man, "Yeah, 'I'm sorry, cha-cha-cha!' makes for a REALLY sincere-sounding apology...."
(Save the Liturgy, Save the World)
Again I see that Scelata is failing to understand that I come to Mass to be cheered up, get a little shot of "happy," and recharge my batteries.
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