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Date sent: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 18:23:27 EST
Subject: Re: Sacred Sop/Sop Duets
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In a message dated 01/23/2000 5:07:41 PM Central Standard Time,
marioncap-at-mindspring.com writes:

<< Don't know the original text, but a gorgeous, very impassioned duet for 1st
and 2nd soprano by Mendelssohn is translated as "I waited for the Lord, He
inclined unto me!" >>

I have another Mendelssohn duet called "O wie selig ist das Kind".. mine is a
photocopy and I have no idea of the source. I have sung it with sopranos,
but it could easily be done by two sopranos. The English translation is
awful, but I've done it for churches that don't like German - it's totally
wrong, but it's "Children Blessed of the Lord" (instead of "Oh how holy is
the child", which is very apropos post-Christmas).



Chris Thomas
Mezzo-Soprano
Wauwatosa, WI

"I love to sing-a, about the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a"