I have always loved this song, but it never seems to work for congregational singing. So, I built my own congregation, out of cloned replicas of myself. Oh man, that would be the greatest church ever. Wait … never mind. On second thought, that would be the worst church ever.
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Yes, that would be the worst church ever. But it would sound GREAT!
I’ve always loved this chant. Am I right in asserting that the older the hymn, the better? What is this, like 1500 years old? And it still holds up…and better, begs for reinterpretation.
Kudos, Michael. You’ve paid homage to the ancient, and given a nod to the future.
Nicely done.
This hymn sounds great on an alto flute.
I bet it would. Know any good alto floutists? (flautist? fluaytist? anybody?)
Flautists.
Back in my college Flute Ensemble days (yes, we had tour t-shirts) I could hold my own on an alto and a bass flute (which looks like a flute on massive amounts of steroids) but now I’m afraid I would only make babies cry and dogs howl.
Can we just think for a minute about the phrase “bass flute”?
If ya wanna see a whole slew of weally, weally weird folk, Google “bass flute” images…
Girl, you are not kidding.
I think this might be my favorite holiday song ever.
Cerise