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Wednesday, February 08, 2006
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The Trumpet Shall Sound
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Imagine it.
Close your eyes.
Listen.
There are sixteen brass instruments playing.
Six trumpets.
Three trombones.
Tubas.
Bassoons.
The music swells like the waves on the ocean. Louder and grander until it reaches its peak and the breakers crash on the beach.
Then it recedes.
One trumpet plays solo, clear and compelling.
Tender, and yet bold.
Telling.
Last night, we attended a concert at the Newfield church. The BJU brass choir was there. You all know how much I love brass instruments, especially the trumpet.
I sat on the end on the middle aisle. I watched the director mix together the sounds and cue in the different parts, regulating the volume of each set of instruments. I watched the young man on the far left add magnitude and dimension to the musical phrases with a set of hammered cymbals. Then add a mystical tenor to the next piece with chimes and a glockenspiel.
I watched the girl in front as she followed the music with her eyes and transferred the thought to her fingers. I closed my eyes when all the instruments went silent. In the midst of that silence, that waiting and expectation, I listened to one trumpet.
"It is well," the trumpet said.
And all the choir echoed his statement, "It is well."
It was beautiful.
I think I appreciate concerts more than anything I ever heard on a cd. I have heard the songs they played countless times, but last night, I savored the music because I knew I couldn't just press "rewind" and hear it again anytime I please.
And besides, no recording can ever capture the accoustics of a sanctuary filled with sounding brass. |
posted by cori
2/08/2006 07:41:00 PM
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Hey it's a while.
Just wanted to say hi, and what your describing sounds like it sounds pretty cool!!
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Wow! That sounds magnificent!You are such a descriptive writer Leslie.
I would like to get together with you. . . we'll have to work on pulling something off.;)
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Lost boy - Hey! I hear you're headed Disney-ward. Can't wait to read your sis' xanga account of that one. :)
Dani - Call me. We'll get our schedules together and find a day we're not busy.
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Hey it's a while.
Just wanted to say hi, and what your describing sounds like it sounds pretty cool!!