15 Hymns: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

Dec 18 2006

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.

Let_Mortal.mp3

let all mortal flesh
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7 responses so far

  1. aly hawkins
    on 18 Dec 2006 at 8:50 pm

    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.

  2. june
    on 19 Dec 2006 at 5:16 pm

    Nicely done.

    This hymn sounds great on an alto flute.

  3. michael lee
    on 20 Dec 2006 at 1:59 am

    I bet it would. Know any good alto floutists? (flautist? fluaytist? anybody?)

  4. june
    on 20 Dec 2006 at 6:25 pm

    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.

  5. aly hawkins
    on 20 Dec 2006 at 7:11 pm

    Can we just think for a minute about the phrase “bass flute”?

  6. june
    on 20 Dec 2006 at 8:17 pm

    If ya wanna see a whole slew of weally, weally weird folk, Google “bass flute” images…

  7. Morphea
    on 22 Dec 2006 at 9:01 am

    Girl, you are not kidding.

    I think this might be my favorite holiday song ever.

    Cerise

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