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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2016 16:33:49 GMT
For me this is the best one. Apropos for an Easter Sunday.
So good that in itself it can convey the Christian miracle better than most human words.
Point Western World for this one:
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2016 20:35:08 GMT
Pretty stunning Gates, great one.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2016 20:47:55 GMT
Hi All, Jeff, I watched the Bible series on the History channel and really enjoyed the telling of the Jesus story, to be quite honest the music is quite moving powerful stuff, it gives you pause for thought and makes you ask yourself some rather deep questions. Many I think who watch these films and documentary's do not want the answer to I know I feel that way sometimes but on the whole it fascinates me.... 
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Post by granny on Mar 27, 2016 21:10:23 GMT
The Manchester Passion in 2006 was brilliant using popular music from the area and the city as the backdrop. The video is not the best quality but I thought the finale outside the town hall in Albert Square was inspiring. Alas, BBC3 productions like this are no more with the station now only online.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2016 21:33:48 GMT
Re: Gates´ piece, it was pretty awesomme unto itself,
.....but I also heard it as a nice 3 or so minute overture to open up a Status Quo concert, ...as
a lead in to "Caroline" or some other great opener !
Ok, I´m loco, please carry-on..
:-)
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Post by Railroad17 on Mar 28, 2016 14:33:51 GMT
Echoes of the King of Kings in the Mummy 2.
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Post by granny on Mar 29, 2016 11:01:13 GMT
Another innovative production from Manchester this Easter. Unfortunately, although it is on the BBC iPlayer until 26th April, I can't upload stills or the video of The Passion, an interpretation of Bach's St. Matthew's Passion. This is from a review in the Guardian.
Campfield Market, Manchester
Streetwise Opera pairs professionals with homeless people in this ambitious and inspiring interpretation of Bach’s masterpiece
A collaboration between Harry Christophers, the Sixteen and James MacMillan on a fully staged version of Bach’s St Matthew Passion is remarkable. That it should be acted and sung by homeless people from Manchester is little short of astonishing. Giving voice to the homeless is the purpose of Streetwise Opera, whose abridged, promenade interpretation of Bach’s masterpiece with a rewritten finale is the company’s most ambitious project to date.
The cast of Penny Woolcock’s production, who arrive on the back of a truck, combines professionals who have sung the piece their entire lives with participants who have met at the Booth Day Centre for the last two years. The singers of the Sixteen undertake the most arduous arias. The outstanding tenor Joshua Ellicott is one of the most distinguished Evangelists of the day, although his tweedy blazer and woolly hair give him as much the air of a harassed geography teacher as a spiritual messenger.
Yet the nonprofessional singers are not relegated to merely singing along to the chorales. Matt Reid’s hoarse, Mancunian accent and haunted eyes make Judas seem exactly what he was: an ordinary guy destined by circumstances to commit an extraordinary act. One of the Pharisees, rather wonderfully, is a dog. And while the role of Jesus is too large for any one performer to carry alone, the part is conveyed in a form of relay, with singers adopting a blue mantle to signify who is the Messiah at any one time.
Bach’s Passion is no opera, but it is intensely dramatic, with the close proximity to events placing the audience in the position of less-than-innocent bystanders. To witness Christ betrayed, scourged and executed barely a few feet away almost challenges you to intervene. One’s passivity, however, is a reminder that the only thing evil requires to succeed is that good people do nothing.
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