Sitting here at work trying to find my zen place, as I have an interview for an internal job posting this afternoon, and I have severe interview anxiety.

Anyway, I'm listening to some of my very favorite soothing music, and in particular, a song called "Parce Mihi Domine" which is a very fascinating piece of sacred Renaissance a'cappella choral music performed by the incomparable Hilliard Ensemble, and accompanied by jazz saxophonist, Jan Garbarek, on the soprano sax. It may sound like a weird combination, but it's something unlike anything else I've ever heard. This song never fails to send shivers up and down my spine, and chokes me up every single time I hear it.

It got me thinking about "feeling the spirit", or the proverbial "burning in the bosom", and how the LDS think they have the franchise on this feeling. Hearing a piece of music like the one I'm listening to now pierces my heart and gives me the "feeling" stronger than anything I ever experienced in the LDS.

Just a-thinkin'.

inthenameofgaylayalejesuschristamen.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/15/2011 03:16PM by GayLayAleJesus.

This is exactly why you always hear that rhetoric from the GA's about how music draws in the spirit. Great music creates an emotional response that TSCC then equates to the spirit.

I figured out that this was a fallacy when I started feeling the same way while listening to the hard rock bands I loved that TSCC simultaneously denounced.

Also, good luck your interview, GLAJ!

Ditto with me and electro trance tunes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypDtUUtuNzQ&feature=player_embedded

But you recognize it and you love it and it enriches your life...and you don't have to explain it, it just is.

Good luck.

Play it in your mind as you wait to be called in for your interview this afternoon. :-)

Good luck!

Music has always, ALWAYS had the same effect on me too :) Sending you positive thoguhts for your interview, GLAJ!

whenever you want it.

(You don't have to beg, pray, or jump through any other hoops!)

I just watched this on You Tube and it is a beautiful piece of music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D4LtzZACek

I feel really good about the interview. I should know whether I got the job either next week or the following week. I'm at peace with it, knowing I did everything I could do, and it's out of my hands now.

So glad to hear you're back on your feet from the pneumonia thing. Good luck with the job!

Most spiritual experience of my life was in the Frauen Kirche in Zurich. Not a mormon church, listening to Bach (not a mormon composer), while looking at the Chagall windows (not a mormon artist). Hmmm.....

Beautiful. Thank you.

As an appreciator of like music, you might be interested in the catalogue at harmonia mundi. Unfortunately, too many people think only of Deutsche Grammophon and maybe Naxos.

http://www.harmoniamundi.com/#/home

Cheers

I feel the spirit everytime I listen to Mozart's c-minor Mass which he never completed, damn it.

And if I was ever "born again" (which I don't put any stock into), it was at St. Mark's Basilica in Venice. It was an all Bach organ concert. Seriously, I had so many aural orgasms from that evening that I was exhausted the next morning.

Much enjoyed! Music like this makes my spirit fly free and brings wellness to my being.

Music by Thomas Tallis or Palestrina (among others)="feeling the spirit" in my book.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK-FN4aV95g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDsj4QEmduA&feature=related

Let's keep this thread going. It's got to be more interesting than "Praise to the Prophet" as feeling the spirit in the Mormon sense.

was listening to a techo remix of Pet Shop Boys' "Go West". When they do the chorus with the choir, it makes me feel like I'm flying. I'm sure that sounds ridiculous, but it's true.

This was at least six years ago. Yet I still recall it.

Jesus spoke to me through a techno dance remix. My bosom burned quite vividly.

Just hooked up some headphones and played my rusty old mp3 copy, and tears streamed down my face. I am feeling incredibly gay right now. ;-)

So, how'd the interview go??

And BTW, I love that PSB song, and it IS one of the gayest songs ever. LOL ;)

Oh Fortuna! gives me a spiritual experience.

If i want tears, laughter and powerful feelings i only have to listen to Les Mis Musical.

I love what john williams did for star wars/ the empire strikes back and Hedwig's theme for Harry Potter.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQXsQfph4Do&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-GRyOqsi9M&feature=related

Good luck in your interview!!

Just found that music on you tube. Beautiful!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D4LtzZACek

Spem In Alium

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cn7ZW8ts3Y

I did not know about Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble. Thank you GayLayAleJesus.

I believe they have 3 collaborative albums, but the first one, "Officium" is by far the best.