[Dialogue] SINGING

[Charles or Doris Hahn]

David, I am sure you must have had at least as much
profound fun putting this together as I have had
reading it. I think I will go back and read the book
again and do a sing-along. This is wonderful.

Doris Hahn

--- David & Lin Zahrt <ch.bnb at longlines.com> wrote:
> I did not realize that singing was such an important
> a part of our 
> life together, for me, until we no longer had life
> together. Then I 
> discovered that I must have music to keep myself
> whole.
> 
> I played in a group that calls itself Monona Country
> (after the 
> county in which we live--Monona County, and because
> they claim to be 
> singing Country Gospel). Well I labeled myself as a
> 'prostitute' 
> because the message they are proclaiming is
> theological pablum and 
> they are aiding and abetting the attempt to keep
> people from growing 
> up spiritually.
> 
> I migrated from there to a local men's quartet whose
> message wasn't 
> any better. It folded when the Bass developed
> congestive heart 
> failure and I migrated to Sioux City (45 miles away)
> to the 
> Barbershop Chorus. I loved the music. It is still a
> little bit 
> reductionistic in its message.
> 
> Since Iowa is a Land Between Two Rivers we live on
> the West Coast-of 
> Iowa. Over the past two to three years we have been
> bombarded with 
> presentations about the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
> There was usually 
> some mention of the fact that they had music on the
> Expedition-a 
> fiddle and song. They did not name to tunes which
> were sung.
> 
> I finally decided that the Expedition had to have
> song in order to 
> make it. The idea would not let me rest until I had
> a narrative of 
> the journey to which I could attach appropriate
> songs. I looked for 
> the songs of the period-1775-1800 that the Corps
> would 'have in their 
> ear', wrote a narrative of the journey, and attached
> the songs to 
> events that fit the song. I have published a song
> sheet so that those 
> who come to participate in the Lewis & Clark Journey
> of Re-Discovery 
> will be able to join in the journey by singing their
> way through the 
> Expedition. It will be a cappella as we used to sing
> when we 
> gathered. Now the narrative is done. The next step
> is marketing and 
> it looks as if I needed to have the narrative done
> last year so that 
> the marketing could have begun a year ago. Whether
> or not I get it 
> marketed I share it with you.
> 
> I conferred with TIm and his recommendation is that
> the info be posted
> Narrative is part 1 and part 2
> Song sheet (2 files like church bulletin) is
> Songs-out, Songs-in
> 
> 
> http://twegner.dyndns.org/dialogue/Zahrt.part1.html
> http://twegner.dyndns.org/dialogue/Zahrt.part2.html
> 
>
http://twegner.dyndns.org/dialogue/Zahrt.Songs-in.doc
>
http://twegner.dyndns.org/dialogue/Zahrt.Songs-out.doch
> 
> 
> Song sheet listing is songsheet
>
http://twegner.dyndns.org/dialogue/Zahrt.songsheet.html
> 
> 
> david
> 
> -- 
>
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