Music for Mourning

December 15, 2012 by

And this. And this. And this. And Brahms.

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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.