Yes, but it is the opinion of virtually all tenors, that bass should be emasculated.... ;-)
Sounds like you'd like to put his words to the tune of that rousing English bar song, The Star Spangled Banner. When you consider the average Conference talk Elder McConkie gave, it seems to me that the hymn, to fit him, should be sober and menacing (I recall him mentioning the nuclear holocaust that was sure to come). Not my idea of a tune for such lovely words. Second, his poem was not originally designed to be made into a song. Such a long poem does not tend towards a good hymn, with few exceptions. You won't see many hymns that long anywhere. K'aya K'ama, Gerald/gary Smith gszion1 @juno.com http://www .geocities.com/rameumptom/index.html "No one is as hopelessly enslaved as the person who thinks he's free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marc: I've never been particularly impressed by the musical setting of "I Believe in Christ," but maybe for an odd reason. It's not that it's ill-suited to the words (although I don't think they are well-matched), it's that they're also ill-suited to the *author* of the words, BRMcC. You'd think that they'd have given even a relatively contemplative hymn by him some more, I dunno, "oomph" or something. I don't mean a potboiler, but something with some more range and and the bass line is, I'm sorry, emasculated to me. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
