Uplifting Thoughts for the Isolated and Depressed in Times of Plague

[Silent_Water]

I always found the relationship with nature of some people in Northern Russia / Siberia "interesting" and how some of these small "indigenous people" got through all the times. I once heard a true story of an old man from the Evenks ...

Evenks - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

... who always was living as a nomad with, from and by his reindeers and did not like to become a settler in the 1930's when the Soviet Union tried to make his reindeers "useful" as meat delivery to the people. This man did not understand this kind of "civilisation", which was killing other human beings when they did not want to have this "progress in history", so he took his whole family, all his reindeers and simply "disappeared" in the "Siberian Tundra" for 30 years and about 1000 miles away from every human village. When he got old and ill, he came out of nature again with one son and went to a Russian hospital and asked the doctors there what had happened in the meantime. They told him, there was a world war with many millions of dead, the dictator Stalin of which he once heard of had died and everything now seems to have become a bit better with the new leading man of the name Krushtchew. The only thing he said was to his son: "So, you see how good it was NOT to be a part of this so-called 'civilisation' for the last 30 years!"

 

[Slave John]

Does this count as "up-lifting"?

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Sorry, but I'm not very good at English, so I had to ask

Love the picture. A solid woman about to hang and feel the sting of the lash!

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

In 1906, The English Hymnal was published for the Church of England by Oxford University Press. It was edited by the clergyman and writer Percy Dearmer and the composer and music historian Ralph Vaughan Williams. In an act that only can be characterized as musical and ecclesiastical stupidity, the use of the hymnal was banned for a time by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The preface to the hymnal describes itself as "a collection of the best hymns in the English language," a boastful claim which has received endorsement by most critics and listeners since. The high quality of the music is due largely to the work of Vaughan Williams as musical editor. The standard of the arrangements and original compositions made it a landmark in English hymnody and one of the most influential hymnals of the 20th century. Vaughan Williams not only collected and arranged the marvelous tunes, but added a few of his compositions. The most famous of these is Sine Nomine, a new tune to For All the Saints. It has been called the “Anglican Cathedral’s equivalent to, ‘When the Saints go Marching In’”

Here is the truly uplifting hymn, performed in the American heartland, by Plymouth Choir and Congregation of First Plymouth Church, Lincoln Nebraska.

 

[Rias]

1. music video was sent september 2019 even in this time was not informations from usa secret(secat) service is epidemy covid19 in china so maybe band members are was prophets and know will be covid19 epidemy meow oho
2. 0:07 drop mask
3.sing sing sing!
4. later they make[ HYPERTOUGHNESS ] album
5. and also new album have song named "CURE"

LYRIC:
Y’all what’s it that we need it that we need it that we need to keep moving forward at those times we are just about to stop and be left behind from all the people Oh It comes after you As if it is ready The walls; they cover our sight We can’t see the view of our future What is it that we need it that we need it that we need to keep moving forward at times at times we are about to stop Our lives wave beyond our expectations That is why life is exciting Seeming easy but hard but hard What you intend to do is that thing you have silently inside your heart Go on straight and don’t stop Though something may hit you Get to it As you feel the countless and biggest power Set your mind and feeling then go now Keep moving forward as you fly Feeling like giving up Wanting to compromise Facing unmeasurable difficulties Problems rise one after another Life is about overcoming the hills and that’s what makes it interesting Face it until you can overcome them Life is about overcoming the hills and that’s what makes it interesting It’s great if you can enjoy the problems you face Wanting to go forward Hoping for (the) best for you you Those passions will take us there Wanting to go forward More than today, More than today Feelings will take us there The stronger, (the) further you’ll be Get going But seeming easy But seeming easy but hard The intentions you have silently in your heart As you feel the motive now I wanna go I wanna go Wanting to get to (the) next step [hai hai] Those passions will Those passions will take us there [take us there] I wanna go I wanna go go Wanting to get to (the) next step [hai hai] The stronger, the further you’ll be [further you’ll be] Go on straight and don’t stop Though something may hit you Get to it As you feel the countless and biggest power Set your mind and feeling then go now Keep moving forward as you fly

 

[elephas]

J.S. Bach - Organ Sonata No. 4, BWV 528: II. Andante (Piano transcription)
Performed by Vikingur Olafsson.

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

J.S. Bach - Organ Sonata No. 4, BWV 528: II. Andante (Piano transcription)
Performed by Vikingur Olafsson.

Don't you feel that every note is perfect; precisely following the last; wonderful presaging the next?

 

[elephas]

Don't you feel that every note is perfect; precisely following the last; wonderful presaging the next?

You can’t say better! I don't like pathos, but this is a conversation with God, in perfect rendition.
Here is the original organ version.

 

[poem21045]

I like this thread and want to thank Praefectus Praetorio for starting it.

BUT, the thought just occurred to me, that I generally don't come to the CruxForums to be uplifted,
but rather, to be lifted up.

https://imgur.com/X6VoDwD

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

I like this thread and want to thank Praefectus Praetorio for starting it.

BUT, the thought just occurred to me, that I generally don't come to the CruxForums to be uplifted,
but rather, to be lifted up.

https://imgur.com/X6VoDwD

Have you considered sharing your address (and yourself) with the girls (and some of the guys) here? Social Distancing be damned!

 

[poem21045]

Have you considered sharing your address (and yourself) with the girls (and some of the guys) here? Social Distancing be damned!

I don't wear a dress generally, unless I'm alone and it's a weekend. . .
Oh! You said address!

Ah, if only. . .

https://imgur.com/LAHjBwd

 

[Silent_Water]

Hm, thinking about "uplifting" or to be "lifted up", I just remembered two women in sports who were / are so unbelievable perfect in their "performing" that they really made history in human sports:

Nadia Comaneci and Simone Biles.
There is a kind of saying in Germany - and if you want to impress Germans forever, be "perfect" in doing something - that these both are probably the only women on Earth who are almost as long flying elegantly through the air by their own abilities / capacities as walking on the ground. I heard the joke about both in Germany that they probably can color their fingernails during a "salto mortale" 4 meters up in the air.

And as far as I know, Nadia Comaneci is the only woman in sport's history after whom a song was renamed after it was used as a background melody for a documentary about her life: "Nadia's Theme", which was before the theme music by Barry de Vorzon for the soap opera "The Young and the Restless" .

Although I am not so very interested in sports myself, I always found it extremely impressive and "uplifting" to see the elegance of Nadia Comaneci, who sometimes looked for me like a "Barbie doll" doing impossible things never seen before in sports in such a perfection ...

(These links do not work directly as I would like, so you might have to copy these links to see the videos on YouTube.)

---https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl9QpC8_LiE---

---https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jReR9pL4Nw---

... and the pure "power" of Simone Biles, when she was "throwing" herself up into the air:

 

[Eulalia]

J.S. Bach - Organ Sonata No. 4, BWV 528: II. Andante (Piano transcription)
Performed by Vikingur Olafsson.

Some haunting shots of the landscape of his native Iceland - not any of the tourist high spots, just very typical, with a unique quality of northern light.

 

[Eulalia]

Hm, thinking about "uplifting" or to be "lifted up", I just remembered two women in sports who were / are so unbelievable perfect in their "performing" that they really made history in human sports:

Nadia Comaneci and Simone Biles.
There is a kind of saying in Germany - and if you want to impress Germans forever, be "perfect" in doing something - that these both are probably the only women on Earth who are almost as long flying elegantly through the air by their own abilities / capacities as walking on the ground. I heard the joke about both in Germany that they probably can color their fingernails during a "salto mortale" 4 meters up in the air.

And as far as I know, Nadia Comaneci is the only woman in sport's history after whom a song was renamed after it was used as a background melody for a documentary about her life: "Nadia's Theme", which was before the theme music by Barry de Vorzon for the soap opera "The Young and the Restless" .

Although I am not so very interested in sports myself, I always found it extremely impressive and "uplifting" to see the elegance of Nadia Comaneci, who sometimes looked for me like a "Barbie doll" doing impossible things never seen before in sports in such a perfection ...

(These links do not work directly as I would like, so you might have to copy these links to see the videos on YouTube.)

---https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl9QpC8_LiE---

---https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jReR9pL4Nw---

... and the pure "power" of Simone Biles, when she was "throwing" herself up into the air:

How about Katelyn Ohashi?

 

[Silent_Water]

Very impressive! When there will be the next Olympic Games (unfortunately as many other things probably depending on this damned coronavirus) and she gets another or some 10's, she could become as famous as Comaneci or Biles!

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

As I've explored a tiny fraction of the ethnic musics of the world, I find myself drawn back over and over to one region, the Celtic Music of Wales and Ireland. The tunes speak to my heart. One of my favorites is the Welsh tune, Ar Hyd Y Nos. Here it is sung in Welsh

I love the tune and the adaptation to a Christian hymn of blessing at the close of a service. The music and words bring tears to my eyes and joy to my heart whenever I hear.

 

[Eulalia]

Paham mae dicter, O Myfanwy,
Yn llenwi'th lygaid duon di?
A'th ruddiau tirion, O Myfanwy,
Heb wrido wrth fy ngweled i?
Pa le mae'r wên oedd ar dy wefus
Fu'n cynnau 'nghariad ffyddlon ffôl?
Pa le mae sain dy eiriau melys,
Fu'n denu'n nghalon ar dy ôl?

Why such anger, oh Myfanwy,
That fills your dark eyes -
Your gentle cheeks, oh Myfanwy,
No longer blush beholding me?
Where's now the smile upon your lips
That lit my foolish faithful love?
Where's now the sound of your sweet words,
That drew my heart to follow you?

Myfanwy boed yr holl o'th fywyd
Dan heulwen ddisglair canol dydd.
A boed i rosyn gwridog iechyd
I ddawnsio ganmlwydd ar dy rudd.
Anghofia'r oll o'th addewidion
A wneist i rywun, 'ngeneth ddel,
A dyro'th law, Myfanwy dirion
I ddim ond dweud y gair "Ffarwél".

Myfanwy, may your life entirely be
Beneath the midday sun's bright glow,
And may a blushing rose of health
Dance on your cheek a hundred years.
I forget all your words of promise
You made to someone, my pretty girl
So give me your hand, my sweet Myfanwy,
For no more but to say "farewell".

 

[Frank Petrexa]

As I've explored a tiny fraction of the ethnic musics of the world, I find myself drawn back over and over to one region, the Celtic Music of Wales and Ireland. The tunes speak to my heart. One of my favorites is the Welsh tune, Ar Hyd Y Nos. Here it is sung in Welsh

I love the tune and the adaptation to a Christian hymn of blessing at the close of a service. The music and words bring tears to my eyes and joy to my heart whenever I hear.

I have no problem with music with religious overtones, as long as I don't understand the language it's sung in.

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

I have no problem with music with religious overtones, as long as I don't understand the language it's sung in.

No religious overtones, just a fun tune with a cool animated graphical score

 

[Silent_Water]

As I've explored a tiny fraction of the ethnic musics of the world, ...

There is an interesting and unique collection of ethnic music on the "Golden Voyager Record" on board of both Voyager spacecrafts of 1977. It is almost a collection of "the greatest musical hits" of mankind during the last 1000 years or so and all the pieces are worth to have once heard them. Some sound very strange for Europeans or Americans but who knows what "aliens" might think about them?

Voyager Golden Record - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Voyager - Music on the Golden Record

voyager.jpl.nasa.gov

I bought Carl Sagan's book "Murmurs of Earth" in its German translation "Signale der Erde" with very detailed descriptions about every of these pieces which were later also uploaded on YouTube, after the NASA / JPL made the record contents public for upload for everyone in 2016 or 2017, I think.

Voyage - Songs from the Voyager Golden Record

Murmurs of Earth - these recordings are floating out in space on the Voyager I & 2 Satellites. Thanks to giulianobevisangue for posting most of these. "Pygmy...

www.youtube.com

What impressed me as a German very much was that German/ Austrian historical music seems to be a bit "over-represented" (Bach, Beethoven, Mozart) but if no one from the NASA experts complained about that, who am I to disagree?
In any case, the music which was impressing me the most at the very first hearing were these pieces:

Although this part of Mozart's opera "Die Zauberflöte" = "The Magic Flute" is a masterpiece of singing, I doubt a bit if an alien might not regard this as a "declaration of war" if he knew and understood the original text and meaning as I do: "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen!" ("Hell's Vengeance Boils in my Heart") The Queen of the Night is very angry about her opponent Sarastro and she wants her daughter to kill him as soon as possible!

This one is a song from Bulgaria about a local hero who is living and fighting like Robin Hood and this is also against the Turks who would not win because the people are on this hero's side. In spite of this, there are Turkish influences in this song and some strong bagpipes.

In this song from India, a worried mother asks why her daughter wants to go alone to a celebration or a party and wants her to stay at home but as you may hear, she already believes her daughter will go in any case and possibly meet "bad men".
Sushri Kesar Bai Kerkar was one of the greatest traditional Indian singers and in some way similar to Mozart. There are stories about them that both could get angry if someone was not concentrating by listening to their masterpieces and that's why she did not like records or recorded songs at all because she did not like the imagination of someone hearing her masterpieces incidentally and not really listening to it:

Some more informations about her:

Kesarbai Kerkar, the Indian voice that made it to NASA’s Voyager mission

Kesarbai Kerkar insisted on removing microphones, loudspeakers from the stage. If something annoyed her, she would cancel the recital midway.

theprint.in

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

Back to Americana, specifically the genre "Country and Westen" music. Many would place Hank Williams as the top of the songwriters of this style. One commentator said, "He's the Shakespeare of Country Music, except Shakespeare couldn't yodel!"

Goodbye, Joe, me gotta go, me oh my oh
Me gotta go, pole the pirogue down the bayou
My Yvonne, the sweetest one, me oh my oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou
Jambalaya and a craw fish pie and filé gumbo
'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gayo
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou
Thibodaux Fontaineaux the place is buzzin'
Kinfolk come to see Yvonne by the dozen
Dress in style and go hog wild, me oh my oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou
Jambalaya and a craw fish pie and filé gumbo
'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gayo
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou

pi·rogue - a long, narrow canoe made from a single tree trunk, especially in Central America and the Caribbean. French derivation. Poling a pirogue is similar to punting in England
bayou- a body of water typically found in a flat, low-lying area, and can either be an extremely slow-moving stream or river (often with a poorly defined shoreline)
ma cher amino - Cajun French for "my dear friend;" "my girlfriend."
Jambalaya - dish of West African, French (especially Provençal cuisine), and Spanish influence, consisting mainly of meat and vegetables mixed with rice. Traditionally, the meat always includes sausage of some sort, often a smoked meat such as andouille, along with pork or chicken. The vegetables are usually the mixture known as the "holy trinity" in Cajun cooking, consisting of onion, celery, and green bell pepper,
Crawfish pie - a baked savory pie common in the Cajun and Creole cuisine of Louisiana. It is similar in appearance to a pot pie and contains crawfish.
Gumbo - a soup popular in the U.S, and is the official state cuisine of Louisiana. Gumbo consists primarily of a strongly-flavored stock, meat or shellfish, a thickener, and what Louisianians call the "Holy Trinity" of vegetables. This one is heavily seasoned with filé powder, a spicy herb made from the dried and ground leaves of the North American sassafras tree
Fill fruit jar - drink moonshine liquor



A song to make @Apostate 's mouth water!