24 Jan
2008
24 Jan
'08
1:41 p.m.
Dave Phillips wrote:
david wrote:
Pity that many institutions in out modern world don't appreciate singing
just for the scake of singing. I well remember the moment in grade 4
glee club when I was told just to "mouth" the words. I still don't
bother to sing in public ... and that was 50 years ago! Yeah, I'm not
the best singer in the world -- and most will, fortunately, never have
the dubious honor of discovering that -- but I'm sure that I could have
been a lot better with the proper encouragement. Ahh, I rant against the
entire education system, when it's just one person who I've not seen for
50 years. Everyone has to have a pet peeve :)
BTW, could someone tell me how to reply to messages on this list. I use
Thunderbird, and when I hit <reply> I get the poster's address, not the
list. So, I kill that message and hit <reply all> and then I have to
manually delete the OP name from the "to" line and change the "cc"
line
to "to" ... I'm feeling quite dumb these days.
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Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
EMAIL: bob(a)mellowood.ca
WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca
Actually, he did. He just couldn't hear it
through his hearing loss, but
he could feel the vibrations. That's one reason he liked thunderous bass
and playing pianos so hard he broke them. ;-)
I never heard that about Beethoven.
Franz Liszt, maybe, but not Ludwig
Van. ;)
Btw, it may interest some to know that the Amish consider instruments a
worldly vanity. No instruments are used in their music, which is
virtually all church music. A friend here who visits Amish country
regularly tells me that everyone in an Amish family sings, and as far as
he could tell they all sing quite nicely. He said that their
entertainments often took the form of after-meal family singing.
Would that more of us might do likewise... :)