Shyone Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 Today I received a CD in the mail sent from an old classmate from high school (1967-1971). It was a recording of my high school choir singing Requiem by Gabriel Faure' (a French Impressionist composer). I was in the choir that made the recording. I listened to the music, and I heard my own voice (mixed with the rest of the choir) singing a Latin mass for the dead. I believed back then. I was an acolyte, and Junior Choir director for my church. Along with those memories came others. It was so weird. It was like a timecapsule of myself singing to my later self. I should be happy, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagan Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 I should be happy, right? No. That was then, this is now. Your world has changed so much since then, when you saw as though through a glass darkly. Now you look back with nostalgia, but happiness is probably not possible given the context. I get the same feeling when I look through old stories I wrote as a child, talking about my hopes and dreams and fantasies and fears. I get nostalgic, but not happy. I remember what I felt like at the time, but I'm not that person anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franko47 Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 Actually, Shyone, I've always liked Faure's Requiem Mass. I'm not a big classical music buff, but I like some of the Spanish and French composers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shyone Posted January 26, 2010 Author Share Posted January 26, 2010 Actually, Shyone, I've always liked Faure's Requiem Mass. I'm not a big classical music buff, but I like some of the Spanish and French composers. Oh, I do love it. It's gorgeous; perhaps one of my favorite pieces of music. I bought a recording a long time ago to listen to, and I still have that, but somehow hearing my highschool choir, and myself, sing it seems different. We had an excellent Chorale, and the recording is high quality and made in a Presbyterian church with a fantastic pipe organ, so the music part of it is seductive. I never thought I would ever hear that recording again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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