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Sunday morning / singers
I led hymns at church this morning. The minister (a frank and funny woman who has been married for 45 years, some of them happy, some of them less so) preached about healthy sexuality. One of the readings was from "The Sacred Marriage of Inanna and Dumuzi," which included these lines:
One of the highlights of the service was Laura Fott singing Elizabeth Alexander's setting of "A Love Like That," a Hafiz text translated (or transformed, depending on who you ask) by Daniel Ladinsky (Alexander's own notes on the topic appeared in our order of service). Laura is one of the nicest women I know; she also performed in professional musical theater before moving to Tennessee. So the performance was enjoyable both because of its virtuosity (both of Laura and the accompanist, Susan Snyder), and because, after the service, people were lining up to thank Laura, and I overheard others asking the minister about her, awestruck.
I got home in time to catch Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me! on WPLN. Kurt Elling gives one of the best "Not My Job" performances in ages (and singing Ke$ha lyrics to a Roberta Flack standard is the least of it).
Someone on my tennis tweetline posted a link to a show of fountains in Dubai synchronized to "I Will Always Love You". It is stunning.
I have mixed memories of "The Greatest Love of All" -- it was the song used for the "poise" routine in a pageant I participated in back when I was sixteen, and I wasn't crazy about it even before hearing it over and over again that summer, as I practiced lifting and dropping my arms just so. But I never got tired of the final four lines -- what they say, and how Whitney sang them:
And if by chance, that special place
That you've been dreaming of
Leads you to a lonely place
Find your strength in love
He put his hand in her hand.
He put his hand to her heart.
Sweet is the sleep of hand-to-hand.
Sweeter still the sleep of heart-to-heart.
One of the highlights of the service was Laura Fott singing Elizabeth Alexander's setting of "A Love Like That," a Hafiz text translated (or transformed, depending on who you ask) by Daniel Ladinsky (Alexander's own notes on the topic appeared in our order of service). Laura is one of the nicest women I know; she also performed in professional musical theater before moving to Tennessee. So the performance was enjoyable both because of its virtuosity (both of Laura and the accompanist, Susan Snyder), and because, after the service, people were lining up to thank Laura, and I overheard others asking the minister about her, awestruck.
I got home in time to catch Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me! on WPLN. Kurt Elling gives one of the best "Not My Job" performances in ages (and singing Ke$ha lyrics to a Roberta Flack standard is the least of it).
Someone on my tennis tweetline posted a link to a show of fountains in Dubai synchronized to "I Will Always Love You". It is stunning.
I have mixed memories of "The Greatest Love of All" -- it was the song used for the "poise" routine in a pageant I participated in back when I was sixteen, and I wasn't crazy about it even before hearing it over and over again that summer, as I practiced lifting and dropping my arms just so. But I never got tired of the final four lines -- what they say, and how Whitney sang them:
And if by chance, that special place
That you've been dreaming of
Leads you to a lonely place
Find your strength in love
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