Re: [FairfieldLife] Transcendentalist power! Now!

2017-12-21 Thread Archer Angel archonan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
On Thursday, December 21, 2017, 11:42:05 AM GMT, he...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   Re Handel: when he composed Messiah, I believe he'd been living in  London, England next to nothing short of 30 yrs? YES But he premiered the piece in Dublin. Later

Re: [FairfieldLife] Transcendentalist power! Now!

2017-12-21 Thread he...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife]
Re Handel: when he composed Messiah, I believe he'd been living in London, England next to nothing short of 30 yrs?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Transcendentalist power! Now!

2017-12-20 Thread Archer Angel archonan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Handel's Messiah was originally performed in Dublin, Ireland around Easter time. It was designed as a concert piece. Many back then objected to it being sung by theater people. Somehow the work has become associated more with Christmas than Easter. As for singing, "The Lord" is two syllables

Re: [FairfieldLife] Transcendentalist power! Now!

2017-12-20 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Good point. ‘Transcendent’ peace would work. This last week we had a sing-along of Handel's Messiah in Fairfield and I sat there singing through the libretto wondering how it sings as a Transcendentalist might sing it. The paraphrase pops a meaning out right away in to a more contemporary

Re: [FairfieldLife] Transcendentalist power! Now!

2017-12-19 Thread Archer Angel archonan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
"Transcendence of peace" means to go beyond peace, I am not sure that is what you meant. It would mean peace is bypassed.  The might mean the absence of peace or it could mean something beyond peace and non-peace, but not peace itself.  It could also mean one transcends non-peace, and somehow