Audioblog: Seasonal

I heard from a little bird a request we do some Holiday Cheer stuff here at Docudharma.

Well, I don’t know how cheery this is, but it is one of my favorite spiritual prayer/songs.  Ava Maria.  The Shubert version.  I read he wrote this in devotion to the Virgin Mary when he was a young man.  The melody is one of the loveliest I have ever heard.

But I also think about Mary (in my own idiosyncratic way).  She may have been a young girl when she gave birth to Jesus, but when he was crucified, she was no longer young.  If she was 16 when she gave birth, then 33 years later she was 48.

To watch your son die just when you are entering middle age and facing your own mortality, that is a story in itself,  I think.

Anyway, enough of my odd meanderings.  Here is my version, just a fragment of the song as I couldn’t find lyrics which would teach me the entire version.  As usual, please remember to turn the volume down, or the distortion won’t be purty.

So, a fragment of Ava Maria.  Merry Christmas to all, in the real spirit of the holiday.

Gabcast! Auld Manhattoe #5

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    • pfiore8 on December 17, 2007 at 05:06

    thanks for the cheer.

    • Robyn on December 17, 2007 at 05:14

    I have some selections in mind for Sunday music retrospective.  One hopes a good time will be had by all.

  1. the scat singing, the spoken word, and your most soulful Ave Maria. Love it all NPK!

    • lezlie on December 17, 2007 at 06:34

    thanks, NPK!

  2. Your musings about Mary reminded me that back in the 80’s when I was consumed with reading about women’s spirituality, several sources noted that the Greek word for “virgin” could also be translated “unattached woman.” That gave me an opportunity to think of Mary in a whole new light.

  3. Wish I could sing….. That was just lovely and sad and soulful, you are quite versatile!!!!!

    • RiaD on December 17, 2007 at 15:31

    wish i could sing that well…

    lyrics:

    Ave Maria

    Gratia plena

    Maria, gratia plena

    Maria, gratia plena

    Ave, ave dominus

    Dominus tecum

    Benedicta tu in mulieribus

    Et benedictus

    Et benedictus fructus ventris

    Ventris tuae, Jesus.

    Ave Maria

    Ave Maria

    Mater Dei

    Ora pro nobis peccatoribus

    Ora pro nobis

    Ora, ora pro nobis peccatoribus

    Nunc et in hora mortis

    Et in hora mortis nostrae

    Et in hora mortis nostrae

    Et in hora mortis nostrae

    Ave Maria

    two interesting lyrics-links for you:

    http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/ci

    http://www.origenmusic.com/ave

  4. At least pass the hat!

    • kj on December 17, 2007 at 19:53

    what a gift!  ðŸ™‚

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