Music for Mourning

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1. Kindra Bradley says:
   December 15, 2012 at 2:53 pm

   Thank you.
2. Rulon Brown says:
   December 15, 2012 at 6:00 pm

   This procession (AKA pavane) ‘for a dead princess’ may help us mourn yesterday’s horrific slaughter of princesses and princes.

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKkeDqJBlK8&sns=em is my favorite arrangement.

   Here is Ravel’s original. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKkeDqJBlK8&sns=em
3. Rulon Brown says:
   December 15, 2012 at 6:02 pm

   Whoops. Here is the version I love by Vince Mendoza.
   http://www.virginmedia.com/music/browse/vince-mendoza/songs/953214
4. EdwardJ says:
   December 15, 2012 at 8:19 pm

   A voice is heard in Ramah,
   mourning and great weeping,
   Rachel weeping for her children
   and refusing to be comforted,
   because they are no more.

   Jeremiah 31:15
5. Naismith says:
   December 15, 2012 at 8:46 pm

   Thanks. I am not musical, but even so, music can effectively express things when words fail. This fits the occasion.
6. MauraLee says:
   December 16, 2012 at 12:49 pm

   Thanks Kristine, I needed to hear all of this today! I am grateful for your musical prowess!
7. Armand Mauss says:
   December 16, 2012 at 2:43 pm

   Great choices, Kristine, to be sure. Certainly the Elgar is one of my favorites when I am thinking in other-worldly terms, even when it comes up (wordless) among the Enigma Variations. Warum, in the Brahms selection, is the most pressing question we are all asking these days, but I guess on these occasions I prefer the more soothing Wie Lieblich . . . from his Requiem. Thanks for the great selections.
8. Kristine says:
   December 16, 2012 at 6:34 pm

   Armand!! Why have we never talked music? Next time I see you, we will. I also love Wie Lieblich…, of course.