"I Remember It Well" from Gigi - by several

Yesterday was a day full of GUM!  I'm stocked for a few weeks (at least of classical and operetta selections :).  Here is a funny ballad from Gigi, that always makes me laugh.  Several people were involved in making this music.  Click here for more info....

[The first ~10 sec of the video has issues, but the audio is fine :) ]

[It made me laugh more when I realized that the one line from the song I thought I knew, I remembered wrong!]

"Jesus Christ the Apple Tree" - Elizabeth Poston, Stanford Scriven, Jeremiah Ingalls

As one of my Boston choir directors said, this unique, New England piece compares Jesus Christ to that most-American of trees, the apple tree.  Below are two settings of the text, one by Elizabeth Poston (the most common, it appears, and the first version I heard), and another by Stanford Scriven.

Here also is a link to the only on-line recording I could find of Jeremiah Ingalls' setting, which is my favorite because it is so energetic!
http://www.uchoir.harvard.edu/sounds/IngallsTheAppletree.mp3
(I first heard this setting, as is often the case, you've seen, at a Harvard Carols Service.)

"Do It for Love" - Hall & Oates

I remember when this song came out, and I remember really liking it : )  I ended up getting the album from my dad for my birthday!  Enjoy!

"Leaving Port" from Titanic - James Horner

[And we're back!  Sorry for the lack of postage!]

James Horner has written some excellent music for movies, including Titanic.  Here is one of my favorites from that film score.  Enjoy!

"All we, like sheep" from Handel's Messiah

I love this movement from the Messiah, and not just because I always smile at the title.*  The music and text (below) work so well together, with a simple theme for "All we, like sheep," suggesting the simpleness of mankind relative to God; and fast notes for the words "astray" and "turned," suggesting the wanderings of a lost and scattered flock.

Text:  "All we, like sheep, have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all."  (Isaiah 53 : 6)

* Sometimes when we are playing "Settlers of Catan," I start singing, "All we lack sheep."

"Haec dies" - William Byrd and Giovanni da Palestrina

It's Easter time!  Time for good music about Jesus' priceless gifts to all mankind.  I first heard this song on a CD that I purchased after a gorgeous concert by the Choir of Saint Thomas Church, New York City (at Christ Church in Cambridge, MA).

A translation of the text is:
"This is the day which the Lord hath made: 
let us be glad and rejoice therein. 
Alleluia."
[More words and translation here.]

This recording - by the Choir of King's College, one of my all-time favorites - includes two settings of the same text.  Enjoy!