BYU vs. Oxford: Choir Showdown

[_moksha]

What can be done by choirs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zs4PPk5kg

[_KimberlyAnn]

Nice, BC and Moksha.

I prefer this version of Come Thy Fount of Every Blessing by Sufjan Stevens:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1bSlS6O ... re=related

It reminds me of when I was a little girl and my daddy and his overall-wearing uncles and cousins would sit in our living room, playing banjos and guitars and harmonicas and the piano--basically whatever instruments they could get their hands on--and sing late into the night, after I was sent to bed.

The house smelled like chewing tobacco and old men. I loved those nights.

Sufjan's song is a little more refined than what I'd lie awake listening to from my pink quilted bed, but still, the feeling is the same.

KA

[_Chap]

Try a different tradition, perhaps with different aims:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddUlZbcBQ_s

Notice the effect of the chant change at 3:50. Good isn't it?

Of course you should be reading the words of Psalm 50 in the Book of Common Prayer version while you watch ...

http://www.eskimo.com/~lhowell/bcp1662/ ... lms_2.html

[_moksha]

I have enjoyed the St. Olaf's choir singing on the Christmas PBS specials.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwH120A7aJU

[_KimberlyAnn]

Try a different tradition, perhaps with different aims:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddUlZbcBQ_s

Notice the effect of the chant change at 3:50. Good isn't it?

Of course you should be reading the words of Psalm 50 in the Book of Common Prayer version while you watch ...

http://www.eskimo.com/~lhowell/bcp1662/ ... lms_2.html

Yes, that was lovely, Chap. As required to gain full appreciation of the piece, I did read Psalm 50 while listening. I had my own private High Church service right here at home!

Thanks.

Now, in return, Rutter's The Lord Bless You and Keep You, sung by the St. Paul Cathedral Choir:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8QcpfiU ... re=related

KA

[_Chap]

Yup. Thanks for trading!

Strictly it should be St Paul's (as in St Paul's Cathedral): we are not in MN for this one ...