What piece of music do you want played at your funeral?

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donaldopato

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January 04, 2009, 04:43:13 PM
Messiaen's "Dieu Parmi Nous". I love that grand "Hollywood" ending. Besides I know most of the people at my funeral would be absolutely baffled and that would please me to no end.
Until I get my coffee in the morning I'm a fit companion only for a sore-toothed tiger." ~Joan Crawford

Dundonnell

#101
January 04, 2009, 05:52:15 PM
Quote from: donaldopato on January 04, 2009, 04:43:13 PM
Messiaen's "Dieu Parmi Nous". I love that grand "Hollywood" ending. Besides I know most of the people at my funeral would be absolutely baffled and that would please me to no end.

What an excellent idea :)

I remember sitting beside an organist who was playing the work and watching in awe as he used the organ pedals to underpin that glorious, thunderous final climax to the piece.

Quite wonderful ;D

donaldopato

#102
January 04, 2009, 06:00:00 PM
It is a stunning piece to watch. A friend of mine is a wonderful organist and played it for me on a fabulous Cassavant, using a score autographed by Messien. As like you, I was sitting next to him, mouth agape.
Until I get my coffee in the morning I'm a fit companion only for a sore-toothed tiger." ~Joan Crawford

Dundonnell

#103
January 04, 2009, 06:14:17 PM
Quote from: donaldopato on January 04, 2009, 06:00:00 PM
It is a stunning piece to watch. A friend of mine is a wonderful organist and played it for me on a fabulous Cassavant, using a score autographed by Messien. As like you, I was sitting next to him, mouth agape.

Marvellous :)

Bu

#104
January 05, 2009, 06:40:08 PM
Quote from: Solitary Wanderer on June 19, 2007, 07:18:28 PM
What piece of music do you want played at your funeral?

Suggestion Diabolique by Prokofiev.......... >:D

Or the Les Adieux piano sonata by Beethoven (with an emphasis on the third movement for those wishing to re-unite in the next world).

Ten thumbs

#105
January 06, 2009, 01:09:01 AM
I think it unlikely that my mourners will want to sit through a long work. Indeed, at the crematorium the music is liable to be cut off without a sixpence after a few minutes. Therefore I have chosen something very short: Fanny Mendelssohn's song 'Allnächtlich im Traume' - a good illustration of why her brother Felix declared that Fanny's songs are the most beautiful that any person on this earth can make.
A day may be a destiny; for life
Lives in but little—but that little teems
With some one chance, the balance of all time:
A look—a word—and we are wholly changed.

imperfection

#106
January 06, 2009, 08:04:08 PM
Not sure about mine, but I know for sure what DG, EMI, Decca, Philips, Naxos, Hyperion, Sony Classics, BIS, Brilliant, MDG, Centaur, Chandos, Harmonia Mundi, and Testament will play at Harry's:

Ludwig van Beethoven
Rage over a lost penny in G major, Op. 129

greg

#107
January 08, 2009, 05:13:53 PM
Quote from: Bu on January 05, 2009, 06:40:08 PM
Suggestion Diabolique by Prokofiev.......... >:D
Oh, man... another awesome idea. Come back as a ghost and jump on the piano during the funeral and start playing it yourself. It might add to the cool creepiness factor just a little bit.

schweitzeralan

#108
February 14, 2009, 06:49:40 AM
Quote from: Solitary Wanderer on June 19, 2007, 07:18:28 PM
What piece of music do you want played at your funeral?

I already have it written in my Will that it will be...

Prelude to Act .1. Lohengrin   BP/HvK



I'm interested to hear your ideas :



Sibelius' Tapiola.
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