What music gets to you at a sad time

[The Bloop]

Re: What music gets to you at a sad time

Myfanwy - memories of my late mother.

The second verse of the hymn "How great thou art":

When through the woods and forest glades I wander
And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees;
When I look down from lofty mountain grandeur,
And hear the brook, and feel the gentle breeze

Although my father died 25 years ago I still cannot sing this verse as I get a lump in my throat. It brings back so many memories.

Beautiful.
How Great Thou Art, does me too.

My Nan had How Great Thou Art played at her funeral about 25 years ago, so has always struck a chord with me.
About a month after the funeral we attended a friends wedding. I didn't know it was used as a wedding hymn aswell, so a few people in the congregation turned around to wonder what all this sniffling was from the back of the church.

[Baloo]

Re: What music gets to you at a sad time

Adagio For Strings - Barber.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQsgE0L450

[Harry Paget Flashman]

Re: What music gets to you at a sad time

Joe Brown - I'll see you in my dreams. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MSFxR11LOI

Marmalade - Reflections of my mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTeI65yrhGw

[xsnaggle]

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For those in peril on the sea.

My old man. The Furies and Davey Athur

Myfanwy

Do you remember sweet Alice Ben bolt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01nP6kDkm9A

Little boy blue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNMk3KOn3ss ......... My mother used to sing this to me when I was going to sleep when I was little. I still cry when I hear or sing it. I don't know whether it is thinking of the little boy or of my mother.

And the band played Waltzing Matilda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFCekeoSTwg

[splott parker]

Re: What music gets to you at a sad time

Joe Brown - I'll see you in my dreams. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MSFxR11LOI

Marmalade - Reflections of my mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTeI65yrhGw

Of my life:thumbup:

[Steve the Tea]

Re: What music gets to you at a sad time

Henryk Górecki: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs - 2nd Movement
Sung by Dawn Upshaw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5fg8-VWNo0

Words from the 3 Movements;

First Movement
My son, my chosen and beloved
Share your wounds with your mother
And because, dear son, I have always carried you in my heart,
And always served you faithfully
Speak to your mother, to make her happy,
Although you are already leaving me, my cherished hope.
(Lamentation of the Holy Cross Monastery from the "Lysagóra Songs" collection. Second half of the 15th century)

Second Movement
No, Mother, do not weep,
Most chaste Queen of Heaven
Support me always.
"Zdrowas Mario." (*)
(Prayer inscribed on wall 3 of cell no. 3 in the basement of "Palace," the Gestapo's headquarters in Zadopane; beneath is the signature of Helena Wanda Blazusiakówna, and the words "18 years old, imprisoned since 26 September 1944.")
(*) "Zdrowas Mario" (Ave Maria)—the opening of the Polish prayer to the Holy Mother

Third Movement
Where has he gone
My dearest son?
Perhaps during the uprising
The cruel enemy killed him

Ah, you bad people
In the name of God, the most Holy,
Tell me, why did you kill
My son?

Never again
Will I have his support
Even if I cry
My old eyes out

Were my bitter tears
to create another River Oder
They would not restore to life
My son

He lies in his grave
and I know not where
Though I keep asking people
Everywhere

Perhaps the poor child
Lies in a rough ditch
and instead he could have been
lying in his warm bed

Oh, sing for him
God's little song-birds
Since his mother
Cannot find him

And you, God's little flowers
May you blossom all around
So that my son
May sleep happily
(Folk song in the dialect of the Opole region)

StT.
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[mrbluejay]

Re: What music gets to you at a sad time

https://youtu.be/cp07EK6x31s

[Gofer Blue]

Re: What music gets to you at a sad time

My Nan had How Great Thou Art played at her funeral about 25 years ago, so has always struck a chord with me.
About a month after the funeral we attended a friends wedding. I didn't know it was used as a wedding hymn aswell, so a few people in the congregation turned around to wonder what all this sniffling was from the back of the church.

The second verse has huge significance to me. My Dad was in the 8th Army in WW2 and he went through North Africa, Italy and eventually was demobbed in Austria. He loved nature and we have a picture postcard which he sent from Austria to my mother which shows steep sided mountains rising up dramatically from a tranquil valley and he writes rapturously about the scene. The contrast for a lad who grew up in the Cynon valley in the 20's and 30's could not have been greater surely!