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I loved mom3’s post about the Holy Week. I agree that many other faiths do some marvelous things for Easter. Since the unmasking of Santa Claus, Easter has long been my favorite holiday. A new spring, life flourishing after death, the glory of Jesus–it is all fantastic.
This year, the MoTab is doing a performance of
The Messiahthis Friday as an Easter gift to the world: Quote:Live Streaming/On-Demand Video during the Easter Weekend
The Messiahconcert will be streamed live on http://www.mormontabernaclechoir.org/messiah?lang=eng beginning at 7:30 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time on Friday, April 18. At the conclusion of the Friday performance, viewers may see the concert on-demand via the Choir’s website and onhttps://www.youtube.com/user/MormonTabChoir . The concert will be available for viewing through Monday, April 21, 2014 at 11:59 p.m.I wish everyone a blessed Holy Week!
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Amen. I have no connection to Holy Week, and I don’t plan on establishing one, but I do appreciate the traditional build-up to Easter Sunday and what it means for so many – and I absolutely love Handel’s “Messiah”.
I love MoTab and at this point the weekly broadcast is as close as I get to a worship service. I had seen this on the website but didn’t think to share. Fortunately there are others more thoughtful than I am. Like I said on the other thread, holy week doesn’t mean much to me but I do like Easter. I think the church could do a bit better at recognizing Easter for what it is, but I also think they do better with Easter than other holidays (like Christmas). That may well be because Easter is a built in Sunday. I will share an experience I had once many years ago, though. It was mid 80s and I was visiting family for Easter. I decided to go to church that morning because I was a good Mormon back then. I’m sorry I did. I’m not sure of the bishopric forgot or something, but SM was not about Easter, or even Christ – I think it may have been about tithing, actually. They did say happy Easter, though, and the music was Easter music. But, SS and PH were likewise devoid of an Easter message. And sometimes we wonder why others think we aren’t Christian….
Happy Easter!
Thank you for the link. I love the Messiah and to have it at Easter is sooo perfect. mom3 wrote:Thank you for the link. I love the Messiah and to have it at Easter is sooo perfect.
It’s really is about Easter – I’ve never figured out why it’s played at Christmas.
DarkJedi wrote:mom3 wrote:Thank you for the link. I love the Messiah and to have it at Easter is sooo perfect.
It’s really is about Easter – I’ve never figured out why it’s played at Christmas.
I am super-excited about this broadcast. I play different recordings of the Messiah year-round. Seeing it as one story – Christmas and Easter – started for me with a readers’ theater that appeared in the Ensign a million years ago. The writer had taken Easter and Christmas scriptures and woven them together. The last couple of lines made a huge impression on me – the Christ child being wrapped in swaddling clothes and the body of Christ being wrapped for burial. The Christmas story was to be read by a woman and the Easter by a man. It was beautiful.
I’ve always preferred Easter to Christmas. Despite the darkness of the crucifixion, it is ultimately a positive and hopeful festival without Yuletide excess. I’m curious what the performance will be like. I’m curious about the soloists, and whether they will cut any numbers or do the whole thing (2.5 to 3 hours). I wonder what the tempos will be like, etc. I am a huge fan of the original orchestration (strings, oboes, bassoons, trumpet, timpani, basso continuo), and of smaller choirs. Since the orchestra at temple square will join them, they will probably use the Mozart orchestration (strings + full winds and percussion), which I don’t care for anymore (it was the first one I heard). Here’s a great article about that version:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/arts/music/oratorio-society-of-new-yorks-messiah-review.html?_r=0
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