Comments on: Celebrating Mendelssohn’s (200th) Birthday http://www.redstate.com/skanderbeg/2009/02/03/celebrating-mendelssohns-200th-birthday/ Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:54:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jeff Walden http://www.redstate.com/skanderbeg/2009/02/03/celebrating-mendelssohns-200th-birthday/#comment-585 Jeff Walden Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:04:06 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/skanderbeg/?p=144#comment-585 Just in case you didn't recognize it, that was Martin Luther's A Mighty Fortress is Our God. I never realized the hymn ever was any more than that or that it was incorporated with modifications in other music. It makes me wonder whether this might ever have been played at an Easter Sunday celebration a church I used to attend; a professional orchestra provided the service's music for the special occasion. I'm guessing not since the typical fare was such chestnuts as the Hallelujah Chorus, but I could be wrong. Just in case you didn’t recognize it, that was Martin Luther’s A Mighty Fortress is Our God.

I never realized the hymn ever was any more than that or that it was incorporated with modifications in other music. It makes me wonder whether this might ever have been played at an Easter Sunday celebration a church I used to attend; a professional orchestra provided the service’s music for the special occasion. I’m guessing not since the typical fare was such chestnuts as the Hallelujah Chorus, but I could be wrong.

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