"We are not God's chosen people" by David Beede Aaron O'Rourke on octave dulcimer, Mark Billman on cello at the Florida Folk Festival May 2008.A tongue in cheek thoughtful folk song for thoughtful folk.Some have requested the lyrics:- - - - - - - - - - -God's Chosen People Fastin' on a mountain prayin' for a sign Hopin' for a message from the great DivineSome path of destiny that I might treadI'll cut right to the crux of my storyGod appeared to me in all her gloryBut you may not be too happy with what she said- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -She said "You are not my chosen peopleThey're the one's over there in that funny steeple.They're number ONE and you ain't even number TWO.""If they don't listen to your opinionIt's cuz I gave them all dominionOver fish and fowl and animals, which includes YOU!"- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - We are not God's chosen peopleThey're the ones over there in that funny steeple I know we didn't want to know, but God she really told me soWe are not God's chosen people.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -"You might as well stop your fastin' and prayin'and pay close attention to what I'm sayin'I taught my chosen people how to fight.""You were hopin' to be the superior raceBut I'm here to tell you face to faceI created you for my chosen ones to smite." Chorus:- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -"So write a little song and spread the newsTell your folks they don't get to chooseThey might as well surrender, there's no place to hide."When they load their guns and start the slaughterWhen they shoot your sons and take your daughtersRemember I told you I am on their side." Chorus:- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -While I was hoping it was all some cosmic jokeGod disappeared in a puff of smokeBut she left a holy pad of paper and a pen.I picked them up and before to long,I'd writ the words to this holy songAnd they're destined to roll through our heads again and again. Chorus:Repeat last line of chorus with this change:I know we didn't want to know, but God she told us where to go...We are not God's chosen people.Copyright 2002 David James Beede [ More Detail ]
The Langroise Trio performs my Isle of Bathos 3-10-07.PROGRAM NOTES:This piece had a rather long gestation period. I started it in 2004, and, due to deadlines of other commissions or pursuit of other interests (painting, golfing, fishing, general laying around, work), I finally finished it on December 28, 2006. This followed on the heals of a fairly busy composing year which included, among other projects, the silent film score The Land Beyond the Sunset for the Boise Philharmonic's Musical Movies project, and Elegies for Two Cellos, commissioned by Idaho Dance Theater.When I started composing The Isle of Bathos I noticed that themes were coming in from everywhere, in many different styles, in an almost cartoon-like hodgepodge of juxtaposition. I went with it because it made me laugh, like a Carl Stallings score (the extraordinary composer for the Warner Bros. cartoons). The working titles were El Extrano Espanol, then The Eccentric, and finally the present title. I came across the word bathos by accident. The definition of the word fit so well with the piece that it stuck. The "Isle" part exists because there are sections that could be said to have originated somewhere in the Caribbean. But also, and much more important, the idea of a pseudo-Greek island, where nothing is quite as it seems, is highly appealing to my bizarre sense of humor.Bathos: an abrupt, often ludicrous change from the lofty to the ordinary or trivial in writing or speech; unintentional anticlimax" - Webster's New World DictionaryFor further information visit www.davidalanearnest.com [ More Detail ]
The Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts' official Video Presentation.Welcome and study Music &Fine Arts at Singapore's World Class Arts Institution! Staff for Principal Instrumental Studies: Alexander Souptel, Nicolai Koval, Lynnette Seah, Foo Say Ming (Violin), Guan Qi (Viola), Yu Jing (Cello), Yang Zheng Yi, Jacek Mirucki (Double Bass), Jonathan Fox (Percussion), David Smith, Jun Ikebe (Trumpet), Fredi Ernst Sonderegger (Trombone, Brass), Carolyn Ruth Sonderegger (Oboe), Jamie Hersch, Han Chang Chou (Horn), Jin Ta (Flute), Zhang Jin Min (Bassoon), Tang Xiao Ping, Liu Yoko (Clarinet) a.o.more at www.nafa.edu.com.sg Head of Studies of Orchestral Training &Chamber Music:Volker Hartung - www.volkerhartung.com [ More Detail ]
This short was shot almost two years ago by me and my friends David &David, so here it is! The music is Sebastian Bach's "Cello Suite". I think... If I'm wrong on that, correct me. I might change the music later anyway.The people who worked on this are as follows.David Hernandez: co-director, Actor in striped shirt.David Lambert: Co-director, Actor in plain blue shirt.Alec Figueroa: Co-director, camera man, editor, effects artist. [ More Detail ]