I apologize for being late as well. I hope that you had a wonderful birthday.
There's a part of the Faure (sorry about the lack of accents) Requiem that is just exquisite. I was singing in my women's choir, and we were singing with the men of Harvard in our college chapel--an old, gothic structure, yet small and intimate at the same time, especially when nestled on the verdant New England campus of Wellesley. There's a sweet quietness in the "Lux Aeterna", that Faure places after all of the fire-and-brimstone "Dies Irae" and while singing that part (it helps to be a soprano, where your notes just sort of float above the solid foundation of the altos, as well as the men), while bathed in the soft light of the chapel, just in that moment, I felt so close to God, so safe, and unafraid. It was a religious experience.
As a lover of music, I know that you will understand and appreciate such a memory. :)
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Date: 2010-07-27 01:13 am (UTC)There's a part of the Faure (sorry about the lack of accents) Requiem that is just exquisite. I was singing in my women's choir, and we were singing with the men of Harvard in our college chapel--an old, gothic structure, yet small and intimate at the same time, especially when nestled on the verdant New England campus of Wellesley. There's a sweet quietness in the "Lux Aeterna", that Faure places after all of the fire-and-brimstone "Dies Irae" and while singing that part (it helps to be a soprano, where your notes just sort of float above the solid foundation of the altos, as well as the men), while bathed in the soft light of the chapel, just in that moment, I felt so close to God, so safe, and unafraid. It was a religious experience.
As a lover of music, I know that you will understand and appreciate such a memory. :)