Be it resolved: the right tempo of Hillert “Festival Canticle”
Lutherans have, I believe, sung this one to death since the late 1970s. It’s interesting to observe the various tempi used, though - some places are literally twice as fast as others are.
Here is what I think is a very nice tempo for this (IMO) very majestic-sounding song:
http://www.litpress.org/mp3s/feast.mp3
(I have heard it sung almost twice as fast!)
I do know the conductor of the recording (J. Michael Thompson), and I would be surprised if he did not confer with Hillert on tempos, especially since it comes from an anthology recording of Hillert’s works.
posted by Cantor @ 12:44 PM
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In the LCMS at least, "This is the Feast" is a replacement text for the Gloria and is almost universally used. I also noticed it's common to play it faster than most people can recite the words.
-Gavin
Maybe the Lutherans just want to get through their service the same as 90-plus percent of Catholics seem to want. :)
It is impossible to imagine that someone conducting that piece at TWICE the tempo in the recording has had a music education.
To be fair, I did mean almost twice the tempo. But actually, the director in question was indeed a music ed major at a fairly well-esteemed music school.
(Not that even Juilliard etc. don’t let in some duds.)
I learned it a little faster than that on the .mp3, but certainly not twice the tempo, thank God.
I may defer to this post before programming it again. :)
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