Comments on: How We Taught This Lesson in the Past: Lesson 25: “Let Every Thing that Hath Breath Praise the Lord” http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/06/27/how-we-taught-this-lesson-in-the-past-lesson-25-%e2%80%9clet-every-thing-that-hath-breath-praise-the-lord%e2%80%9d/ Where our past is never very long ago Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:32:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: David Y. http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/06/27/how-we-taught-this-lesson-in-the-past-lesson-25-%e2%80%9clet-every-thing-that-hath-breath-praise-the-lord%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-23819 David Y. Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:43:32 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=7096#comment-23819 Thanks for that. I know Psalm 137 as the basis for many pieces of music through the ages, but I wasn’t aware that we had a Psalm 137-based hymn in our own LDS tradition! I’m so pleased to find this out. The imagery of the opening line of that psalm — of sitting beside the river and weeping — is so powerful. (The hymn text is here.)

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/06/27/how-we-taught-this-lesson-in-the-past-lesson-25-%e2%80%9clet-every-thing-that-hath-breath-praise-the-lord%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-23817 Ardis E. Parshall Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:20:52 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=7096#comment-23817 One of my very favorite hymns as a young teen was “Down by the River’s Verdant Side,” closely based on Psalm 137. It didn’t make the cut for the 1985 hymnbook so I hadn’t seen it for a while, and was surprised to read it as an adult to see how overwrought it was, with its ruin stalking along the hall and gushing tears of sorrow and toiling through wretched life and all. Yet it spoke so keenly to my teenage self about loneliness and loss and loyalty and all the feelings that seemed to overwhelm me at that age. I loved it.

I haven’t looked ahead to see whether or not I get to teach this lesson. If I do, I’ll have to work in “Down by the River’s Verdant Side.”

]]> By: David Y. http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/06/27/how-we-taught-this-lesson-in-the-past-lesson-25-%e2%80%9clet-every-thing-that-hath-breath-praise-the-lord%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-23814 David Y. Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:08:58 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=7096#comment-23814 I enjoyed seeing an LDS publication take the Psalms very seriously. As a musician, I’m pleased to see this lesson direct the students to consult hymn books of various Christian denominations. I think we forget how much of a foundation the Psalms are in Christian music, and including our own LDS music. Thanks for this.

(As pure literature, the Psalms sound to me like so much teen-age whining. Oh the ups! Oh the downs! Oh the woe! Oh the sublime joy! Am I the only one that has this impression?)

]]> By: Ariel http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/06/27/how-we-taught-this-lesson-in-the-past-lesson-25-%e2%80%9clet-every-thing-that-hath-breath-praise-the-lord%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-23805 Ariel Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:12:58 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=7096#comment-23805 “It is, of course, evident that the music originally used with the Psalms was not so good as the music of today.”

Sigh.

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