Question for Classical Music types......about music at Reagan Funeral

[Cheswick2.0]

The DC service featured a beautiful arrangement of some sacred piece which was very familiar to me. I just cand place it, though I could hum along with the whole thing.

It started with the youth choir and the adults joined in after a verse or so. It was the one where the choir master kept kind of turning around towards the congregation. I think it happened about half way through the service.
Does anyone have a clue?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. I don't know... the only thing I see that is universally known

was Amazing Grace.

Here is the .pdf of the program, I could not find it at first glance.

http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/reaganfuneral.pdf

[supernova]

2. There's an English hymn

that evidently had different words over there than it does here. I was Listening to the BBC talk about it before the funeral. But I can't remember what the hymn was now.

It did feature the youth choir.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

3. Wait. you mean Ode to Joy? By Beetoven?

I don't see that started by a children's chorus, but they all were supposed to turn and face somewhere in it's last stanza.

Here is a link to all the music there...

It could have been Jerusalem by Boniar... I don't know that piece.

http://www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=1935187

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Ode to Joy is Beethoven

Ans yes, they did do that at the funeral.

That might be the one the poster is looking for. It was a nice arrangement.

Some of the organ music also used classical and/or famous hymn tunes in what I assume were some improvisational moments.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

9. Yeah, I knew that as soon as I posted it... I was

thinking of Jesu, Joy of Man's Desire.

Duh

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. s'alright

Oddly enough - or maybe it isn't that uncommon? - I get the two names confused as well.

And to make it worse, there was someone - PDQ Bach, perhaps? Cynthia Dobrinski? - who wrote a piece of music that had "Jesu Joy . . ." laid over Ode To Joy. Very beautiful, but only helped to cement my confusion over the two titles.

[Cheswick2.0]

6. That's what it was Jerusalem

I am pretty sure. I want to hear it to make sure because I would love to have a recording or perhaps sing it as a solo.
Thanks

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[supernova]

7. That's very popular

for funerals, the second movement. It's also a hymn called "Going Home."

We used it at mom's funeral too.

[Cheswick2.0]

8. okay now you have stopped me

Could it be that the Bonar hymn Jerusalem was set to a Dvorak tune?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

10. Here is Ode to Joy from Beetoven's 8th Symphony

see if this is what you mean...

http://www.primetones.com/personalpage.asp?user=SDN

oops, first link did not work... scroll down to Ode To Joy... the mp3 pops up and plays.

[Cheswick2.0]

12. thank you for the link

but Ode to Joy I recognised. Since Beethoven is my favorite composer I could not mistake it. Beautiful piece isn't it?

[curse10]

16. actually, that would be the 9th symphony

....

[Cheswick2.0]

11. thanks everyone..it was Jerusalem and Bonar was the arranger

The composer is Parry. Now I am going to try and find it on the music site I subscribe to.

You know when you get a tune stuck in your head and can't get rid of it? It happens to me about twice a year and then I have to find it and sing it or I am not satisfied.
If there is not solo arrangement I will have to talk my church choir into singing it.

[DFLforever]

14. The original English version of the hymn is greater

with words by William Blake.

Jerusalem

AND did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?

And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic mills?

Bring me my bow of burning gold:
Bring me my arrows of desire:
Bring me my spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire.

I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land.

William Blake

If anyone here has seen the Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Jerusalem is the prophetic hymn sung at the end of the film.

[mockmonkey]

15. I'm surprised that

they didn't play "Muskrat Love" like they did when Reagan met the Queen.