Comments on: Musical Snobbery – UPDATED Now with Worshipful Axework

By: marv thompson

marv thompson — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:37:10 +0000

A TIME AND A PLACE FOR GREAT MUSIC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z7KUM5qbgw

By: Jacob M

Jacob M — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:11:00 +0000

Two thoughts.

One – even the music that is allowed can be made into feeling the wrong spirit. I once saw a woman singing “O Holy Night” for the Christmas program raise her arms up full-on broadway style when she hit the high note. While it did teach me how to laugh hysterically on the inside while keeping a straight face on the outside, it was rather distracting.

Two – listening to a polynesian elder perform “Brightly Beams Our Father’s Mercy” on guitar was one of the highlights of my mission. The spirit was super-strong as you could tell he meant every word.

By: marv thompson

marv thompson — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:16:53 +0000

Next to building temples ,high on the list in every mormon community was the building of a cultural center.We build church buildings with cultural centers in most.We use the basket ball court weekly but the stage gets little use except to store chairs under.My stake put on a play ,OUR TOWN, and it was a great event .It was the only play we did in 20 years that i lived there.There were some road shows ,but a full play or a musical festival was not done.Why build the stages if we are not going to use them.My wife and I were ward leaders for two california dance festivals at the rose bowl.There was such a great spirit at the end ,and when we were in the parking lot and the prophet drove by and everyone broke out with we thank the o god for a prophet,I thought the parking lot would be flooded with tears.Our kids tore off parts of their costumes and traded them with kids from other areas,great friendships were forged.Music needs to fill our ward more often ,we have a place for it and that place is the cultural hall.My dad was a convert and an orphan ,and that is why ,I am more liberal then the seven genertion side of my family from my moms line,But even liberal mormons need to obey the rules ,we just find a way around them and to bend them with in the spirit of doing good.I started a horse and mormon days in my stake and it became a tradition for several years,BBQ ,western music,horse events,good fellowship.when the stake was split it stopped .The thing is one person can start a tradition or can sit back and say we don’t have fun anymore.

By: Thomas Parkin

Thomas Parkin — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:35:54 +0000

marv,

I’m old enough to remember that stuff, and fondly, too. (except the mid-week Primary … oooo how I hated that.) Best thing about evening Sacrament Meetings was the good excuse to sing God Be With You someplace besides a funeral. And coming home to treats and Wonderful World of Disney.

By: marv thompson

marv thompson — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:20:53 +0000

marvelous marv now likes you guys,it takes time,just like Brussels sprouts.But you guys are ok and I have heard education week speakers at BYU say the day might come when the only church meeting we have will be in our homes.It works for the Amish and they have a 85% retention rate with their children. One thing is constant and that is change.

By: marv thompson

marv thompson — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:10:22 +0000

PS. primary was on Tuesday afternoons and relief society was on Thursday nights.On Saturday dad would sign us up for a ward work project cannery in L.A. or sometimes we would take a two hour drive to a church farm and move irrigation pipes.One Friday a month we wold have a ward dinner with a lot of music,pot luck most of the time.There was a joke that a Mormon was a person going to or coming from a meeting.My favorite thing was July pioneer day at Jack west’s ranch,Pit BBQ, horse rides for the kids fiddle music ,square dancing ,camp songs.We are not that church anymore, we grew up we have a lot of people who can not trace their Mormon linage back 7 generations, my great black sister say she feel left out at pioneer days,she says she does not have any pioneers in her linage,I reply oh yes you do.you are that pioneer.

By: MCQ

MCQ — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:00:45 +0000

I don’t think anyone should be so bold as to say they understand marv.

By: B.Russ

B.Russ — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:44:49 +0000

If I understand marv correctly, and I think I do, then he is suggesting that since oil prices have continued to skyrocket recently, that the church needs to make Sunday meetings a once-a-month event in order to save people gas money.

marv, I completely agree.

By: B.Russ

B.Russ — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:43:04 +0000

I’m no physics expert (and less a music expert) but I know enough to know

timbre =/= distortion

By: Howard

Howard — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:37:57 +0000

Strings of varying types can be tuned to the same note but each will produce a different timbre (which is distortion) some with more or less distortion and therefore more or less fidelity as well. I love tube amps but regardless of headroom a tube amp has more distortion than solid state amp.