A light-hearted thread....

[Guest]

I was wondering whether we could play the word association game. With pieces of choral music.

I'll start: Blessed city, heavenly Salem. I'm sure there are lots of things you can do with that.

[Lizzie]

I was wondering whether we could play the word association game. With pieces of choral music.

I'll start: Blessed city, heavenly Salem. I'm sure there are lots of things you can do with that.

Witches!
Bit obscure but it always makes me think of them!

[AscribeUntoTheLad]

I was actually hoping that we could do it using only pieces of music.....
so would you mind changing that to the Witches' Sabbath from Symphonie Fantastique?

[Lizzie]

I was actually hoping that we could do it using only pieces of music.....
so would you mind changing that to the Witches' Sabbath from Symphonie Fantastique?

Feel free!

[decantor]

I was actually hoping that we could do it using only pieces of music.....
so would you mind changing that to the Witches' Sabbath from Symphonie Fantastique?

I'm not certain I have the rules right (sacred choral music?), but my 'association' would be ---

Dum transisset (sabbatum)

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm not certain I have the rules right (sacred choral music?), but my 'association' would be ---

Dum transisset (sabbatum)

Silent (dum(b)) Night

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Silent (dum(b)) Night

Berlioz: Les Nuits d'Ete. (Well, at least it's vocal.)

[mercia]

Delius - Two songs to be sung of a summer night on the water

[Norfolk Born]

John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John: Summer Nights

[Anna]

Sumer Is Icumen In

[french frank]

Sumer Is Icumen In

In nomine Jesu

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Cantata 147) - Bach

[mangerton]

Turn Back, O Man, Forswear thy Foolish Ways - Holst

afterthought - good hymn for a wedding?

[Norfolk Born]

These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)

[Anna]

Combining mangerton's thought about the Holst being good for a wedding with Ofca's suggestion:

The Wise and Foolish Virgins - Martinu (it is opera thus choral!)