Noen som har lurt på hvor musikken i Statoil-reklamen kommer fra (der hvor verden "stopper opp" uten gass fra Statoil og et kor blir stående med hakk i plata inntil den siste guttesopranen er på plass)? Evensong på BBC radio 3 fra Westminster Abbey den 12. oktober hadde "Os justi meditabitur" av Bruckner som "introit". De som har lurt lenge, trenger ikke lure mer!
I never seem to get any time for playing the organ, composing or other things I like to do. My fingers are turing stiff. The only musical activity nowadays is the occasional practice for Handels Messiah. "And he shall pu-ri fa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ah-ay the so-o-o-ons of Le-hi-vi" and "His yo-ho-hoke is ea-hea-hea-hea-hea-hea hea-hea-hea-hea-hea-hea-hea-sy" etc. We're going to perform on the 12th and 13th of November.
I listened to the BBC radio 3 evensong today from Manchenster Cathedral, but I did not like it too much this time. The one from Sheffield last week was much better.
So long, folks! I might not get time to write anything in near future. My schedule is not ea-hea-hea-hea-hea-hea hea-hea-hea-hea-hea-hea-hea-sy!
Are there hidden codes (anagrams) in the name of the Norwegian Lutheran Chruch "Den norske kirke"?
- den snorkekirke (the snoring church)
- der ikon krenkes (where icons are desecrated)
- der kikker sonen (the son is looking there)
- der knekk senior (senior is breaking down)
- der koner nikkes (where wives are nodded)
I guess The Anglican Church is even more suspicious:
- anal church etching
- angelic hutch ranch
- caching earth lunch
- chagrin clean hutch
- chain church tangle
- change church Latin
- church ethnic lagan
I inherited a Chicago "The Lakeside" reed organ ("American organ", or "harmonium") from my grandmother who died in 1994, but up until now my aunt has taken care of it. Yesterday I rented a car trailer and drove up to my aunt and took it with me. See pictures of the organ after I have secured it safely on the trailer:
-Harmonium secured on trailer, front view
-Harmonium secured on trailer, side view
The sheet music stand and some detachable decorative wood are not shown in the pictures. These were detached and put in box during transport. So last night I delivered the harmonium at an organ builders work shop to get it repaired and cleaned. He was kind enough to welcome me 10.15 pm on a Saturday. He even showed me around his work shop and invited me into his house to try his pipe organ.
I expect to get my beloved organ back some time during spring 2006. The sound quality and the key action of this organ is very good, so I am looking forward to have this instrument in my living room. It's visual appearance is also nice.
Even though my christian journey began in an anglo-catholic-style congregation within the Scottish Episcopal Church, I was baptised and confirmed in the Norwegian Lutheran Church and has always been an official member there. But since the lutheran church was forced upon me and never managed to awaken my interest or open mind, I dicovered the christian faith outwith the church I "grew up" in. I wish to point out that my parents never went to church but once a year, so that would be a feasible explanation why I did not catch up with my religion before adulthood. Now that I am stuck with the Norwegian Lutheran Church I might as well make the best of it.
My main objection against the Norwegian Lutheran Church is that the Holy Communion is not celebrated at every (Sunday) service, but rather once a month. There is nothing "un-Lutheran" about the Eucharist, rather the contrary. It is a mystery why Norwegians can not get this into their tiny little heads.
This article/essay by Pastor Klemet Preus presents quite much that of my own view on the subject:
http://www.consensuslutheran.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=196&mode=thread
Lutheranism isn't a new religion, in short, it should (but seldom does) take all the good things from Roman catholisism only with the native language, take back the parts of the service that the medieval catholics omitted, and do away with the pope. That is Lutheranism in a nut-shell, but so far away from what is practiced in most churches today. I find this upsetting, irritating and demoralising. This has, of course, nothing to do with church music...
