Originally posted by vinteuil
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... Bach did a couple of good ones too, y'know... 
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...and one for a couple and one with an oboe! Elgar is close to my top one, along with Dvorak and really prefer schmalzy to strident when it comes to violin sounds. I also like double concertos such as Mozart's SC K364, Brahms DC and the aforementioned Bach BWV1043.Last edited by cloughie; 17-05-17, 13:01. -
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I just love loud 'in yer face' organ music in a church or cathedral.
Rarely heard these days, sadly ... it's mostly all this thoroughly boring happy-clappy peaceful stuff.
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Originally posted by P. G. Tipps View PostI just love loud 'in yer face' organ music in a church or cathedral.
Rarely heard these days, sadly ... it's mostly all this thoroughly boring happy-clappy peaceful stuff.
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Much happy-clappy stuff is even more 'in-yer-face' than any organ music - selfishly loud, with volume to replace quality.Originally posted by P. G. Tipps View PostI just love loud 'in yer face' organ music in a church or cathedral.
Rarely heard these days, sadly ... it's mostly all this thoroughly boring happy-clappy peaceful stuff.Comment
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Any more for any more....?
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Papists are not exactly noted for minimalism when it comes to most things in life and that includes steeples, S_A ...Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
Obviously Catholic - no steeple!
The Portofess was a hoax, of course, by some guy called Joey Skaggs of NY about 25 years ago ...
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Mañuel - he haff no thteeple: but he come from Barthelona!Originally posted by P. G. Tipps View PostPapists are not exactly noted for minimalism when it comes to most things in life and that includes steeples, S_A ...
The Portofess was a hoax, of course, by some guy called Joey Skaggs of NY about 25 years ago ...Comment
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My dictionary describes the word 'Papist' as a pejorative term- expressing contempt or disapproval.Originally posted by P. G. Tipps View PostPapists are not exactly noted for minimalism when it comes to most things in life and that includes steeples, S_A ...
The Portofess was a hoax, of course, by some guy called Joey Skaggs of NY about 25 years ago ...Comment
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Yes, so does mine ... that's precisely why I used it.Originally posted by Stanfordian View Post
The term always reminds me of the late Rev Ian Paisley in the late Sixties, early Seventies. He used the term regularly to describe people like myself.
My coreligionist friends and I thought the term was funny then but maybe in these PC times it is considered rather less acceptable?
A great shame, imv. Personally I think it is much better to be insulted than ignored ...
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And reminds me, PG, that though things could get a bit smelly back then, Rev. Ian was known to cry out, 'There'll be no potpourri here!'Originally posted by P. G. Tipps View PostYes, so does mine ... that's precisely why I used it.
The term always reminds me of the late Rev Ian Paisley in the late Sixties, early Seventies. He used the term regularly to describe people like myself.
My coreligionist friends and I thought the term was funny then but maybe in these PC times it is considered rather less acceptable?
A great shame, imv. Personally I think it is much better to be insulted than ignored ...
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Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostAnd reminds me, PG, that though things could get a bit smelly back then, Rev. Ian was known to cry out, 'There'll be no potpourri here!'
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostAnd reminds me, PG, that though things could get a bit smelly back then, Rev. Ian was known to cry out, 'There'll be no potpourri here!'
Some of us could swing a thurible with the best of 'em, JC.
I remember once getting gently reprimanded by an embarrassed young priest (and my poor, poor mother) for nearly doing a full circle of the thing at Sunday Benediction. At eight years of age I must have been one of the keenest, if hardly the most sophisticated, young thurifers in town. How I loved directing that smoke into the faces of the congregation. And the smell, oh the smell!! Unsurprisingly I was eventually "demoted" to mere candle-bearer.
I see my online dictionary has apparently never come across the words 'thurible' and 'thurifer'. Another for the 'Time Forgot' thread, maybe ?
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Ha! I've seen this in action, during high mass in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela - spectacular. Smoke and not a few sparks poured forth as it swung from the north to the south chancel and back......Originally posted by P. G. Tipps View Post
Some of us could swing a thurible with the best of 'em, JC.
On my last morning (I was in S de C for an OU summer school) I had a wander round and came upon the thing parked in the cathedral library where it was kept when not in use. They know how to put on a show (pity the music was terrible, both when I was there and on this video).Comment
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