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Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on January 08, 2009, 12:22:45 am ---I quibble with the changes this guy made to the tune.
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You might like this version, Elle!
Professional photographer Jim Crotty presents "Simple Gifts," set to the classic Shaker traditional performed by Yo-Yo Ma and Alison Krauss, representing spring nature and landscape photographs taken in Southern Ohio as well as the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
"Simple Gifts,"
Yo-Yo Ma (Cellist)
Alison Krauss (Soprano)
Jim Crotty (Photographer) (2:38)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBOYYlanm1k[/youtube]
Aloysius J. Gleek:
I saw this amazing 30-minute documentary more than 30 years ago--and now you can see the entire film on the web, with a single click. Gorgeous.
The Shakers
The Shakers are America's oldest and most successful experiment in communal living. A century ago, nearly 6,000 Shaker brothers and sisters lived together in nineteen communities scattered from Maine to Kentucky. This film traces the growth, decline, and continuing survival of this remarkable and influential religious sect through the memories and rich song traditions of Shakers themselves. It includes performances by the late Eldress Marguerite Frost of Canterbury, New Hampshire, and the late Sister R. Mildred Barker, a leading singer and spiritual leader of the Shaker community still active at Sabbathday Lake, Maine when the film was made.
For an account of how the film was made and for contextual materials on the song tradition and gift painting tradition, we highly recommend the essays recently posted by Shaker scholar Daniel Patterson. This work was part of a 2006 grant from the Folk Arts division of the National Endowment for the Arts.
...the definitive film on the Shaker movement.
--- The New Yorker Magazine
Film by Tom Davenport, Frank DeCola
Produced by Tom Davenport with Frank DeCola and Daniel Patterson
Cinematographer: Tom Davenport
Sound: Mimi Davenport, Don Berman, Dan Barnett
Editing: Louise B. Steig
Copyright: 1974, Tom Davenport Films
30 minutes, Color
Original format: 16mm, 1974
Distributor Contact: Davenport Films
Streaming only. For other permissions apply to Tom Davenport, Frank DeCola or to the distributor, Davenport Films.
http://www.folkstreams.net/film,84
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: jmmgallagher on January 08, 2009, 08:46:55 pm ---
You might like this version, Elle!
Professional photographer Jim Crotty presents "Simple Gifts," set to the classic Shaker traditional performed by Yo-Yo Ma and Alison Krauss, representing spring nature and landscape photographs taken in Southern Ohio as well as the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
"Simple Gifts,"
Yo-Yo Ma (Cellist)
Alison Krauss (Soprano)
Jim Crotty (Photographer) (2:38)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBOYYlanm1k[/youtube]
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Oh yes. :) I love Alison Krauss, and I superlove Yo-Yo Ma. And now I love Jim Crotty too. Thank you John. That was pretty perfect.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: optom3 on January 07, 2009, 12:00:02 am ---It is the same here. All the malls are half empty, with more shops closed than open.
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And yet, until a few months ago, anyway, they were still building more and more places to shop--at least in Central Pennsylvania, anyway. ???
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on January 08, 2009, 12:22:09 am ---It's probably in every hymnal. A nearly perfect song, IMO.
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I can't remember if I checked to see if it's in the new Lutheran hymnal--and I can't seem to get the AugsburgFortress web site (the publisher) to load this morning to check. >:(
It is a lovely lyric to a lovely tune, but personally I don't think it belongs in an orthodox Christian hymnal. The lyric doesn't even mention God or Jesus.
But let be, let be. ...
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