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Originally Posted by Julie Steiner
Ooooh, I've sung every one of those, Martin, and adore them all! Good memories. I imagine you've played percussion for them all?
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I envy you, Julie! I've played Bernstein's
Chichester Psalms numerous times, and many of the percussion parts including the chamber version (arranged for organ, harp, percussion, and choir). I haven't played
Symphony of Psalms or Faure's
Requiem. But I love them both! (I have, however, played other pieces by Stravinsky, like
The Rite of Spring, The Firebird, Pulcinella, and others.)
I've just added a link to a wonderful performance of the Stravinsky performed by L'Orchestre national de France in my previous post. I am right now listening to it.
I'm going to check out your links to the redux of "Simple Song" followed by the "Secret." Thanks!
Added in: Here is a quote I just read:
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“The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so that they are changed... because people are changed by art – enriched, ennobled, encouraged – they then act in a way that may affect the course of events... by the way they vote, they behave, the way they think.” ―Leonard Bernstein
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