Posted on Mar 17, 2016
What piece of music stirs your soul the most?
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Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture (Full with Cannons)
WARNING: Cannons may make dogs bark, scare your mom, leave your neighbor dumbfounded, make cats panic, wake you up in the middle of the night shouting at the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbxgYlcNxE8
At around the 12 minute mark, the cannons fire. It gets my blood flowing. To think that Artillery can be used in the creation of something beautiful. So I ask What Piece of music stirs your soul? For me there are many, but this is near the top.
At around the 12 minute mark, the cannons fire. It gets my blood flowing. To think that Artillery can be used in the creation of something beautiful. So I ask What Piece of music stirs your soul? For me there are many, but this is near the top.
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U.S. Naval Academy Glee Club - U.S.S. Arizona Memorial
The Midshipmen singing Eternal Father at the Pearl Harbor Memorial.....very stirring and emotional.
"Eternal Father Strong to Save" - (music: Dykes, lyrics: Whiting) Adopted as the Naval Hymn (British and American), this piece speaks to Psalm 107 --mutual respect for the relationship between the briny and those who are serving/have served upon her, the realized peril, and respect her power. Its melody and harmonies are unparalleled for driving reverence to my sea-borne brethren, their work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQOzUqdOVDU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQOzUqdOVDU
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
Capt Mark Strobl I freely admit this brought a tear to my eye. The visual combined with the haunting vocals. Thank you for sharing this.
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SN Greg Wright
Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and chorus, arrangement by Hans Zimmer (from Crimson Tide). Video footage - Marine Nationale de France.
PO3 Steven Sherrill - Well then, you'll love this, set to it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dlXmuYuAYc
(Don't mean to jack your comment, Capt Mark Strobl, I just really like this clip and think PO3 will, too.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dlXmuYuAYc
(Don't mean to jack your comment, Capt Mark Strobl, I just really like this clip and think PO3 will, too.)
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PO1 Gene Barfield
I have a copy of an older Armed Forces Hymnal in which Navy Hymn appears with 16 verses. In addition to the 'original' three which are also commonly found in many church hymnals, there are individual verses for Navy medical, the Marine Corps, the Submarine Service (I was a submariner so this one is really special for me), Naval air, our families and loved ones, ships being commissioned, ships being decommissioned, and even Operation Deep Freeze and Naval astronauts. It's just amazing!
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Music video by Celtic Woman performing Amazing Grace.
I remember a stand up comic once commenting on bagpipes (with a thick Scottish brogue) "Aye Laddie, let's invent some sort of musical instrument, something that will really piss people off." I suppose many have good reason to find the sound annoying. But never while playing Amazing Grace. In that one piece it really shines...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsCp5LG_zNE
The song itself has an amazing backstory. It was written by a sea captain who left the slave trade after his last voyage in which he feared he was lost in a violent storm. Falling to his knees, he prayed for salvation promising to be a better man.
The interesting part is that I don't even consider it a Christian song. It can stir anyone's soul regardless of belief.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsCp5LG_zNE
The song itself has an amazing backstory. It was written by a sea captain who left the slave trade after his last voyage in which he feared he was lost in a violent storm. Falling to his knees, he prayed for salvation promising to be a better man.
The interesting part is that I don't even consider it a Christian song. It can stir anyone's soul regardless of belief.
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PO3 Steven Sherrill - it's been used in military, police, and fire funerals, yes, and with incredibly emotional results. But I can't call it a funeral song. It's about the only religious hymn that stirs my ever-decreasing lack of religious inclinations.
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CPT Jack Durish
SCPO (Join to see) - I've never really considered it a religious song. Yes, it's sung in houses of worship, but then so is America the Beautiful, God Bless America, and the Star Spangled Banner. It makes no mention of God or any other religious figure. It is a simple song of wonder asking what amazing grace saved a wretch such as me? I have often asked the same thing myself.
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CPT Jack Durish - it resonates with me, Jack. Maybe one or two hymns like it do also, but that's all that do.
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If we're talking classical music (in no particular order):
1) O Fortuna - Orff
2) Great Gate of Kiev - Mussorgsky
3) 1812 Overture - Tchaikovsky
4) Firebird Suite - Saint Saens
5) the finale portion of Bacchanale - Saint Saens
6) Danse Macabre - Saint Saens
7) Night on Bald Mountain - Mussorgsky
8) In the Hall of the Mountain King - Grieg
9) Flight of the Valkyries - Wagner
11) Cathedral Chorus movement of Russian Christmas Music - Reed
12) Mars and Jupiter Movements of The Planets - Holst
If we're talking modern music:
1) Feuer Frei - Rammstein
2) Bodies - Drowning Pool
3) Die MF Die - Dope
4) (Turn Me On) Mr Deadman - The Union Underground
5) Push It - Static X
6) Bombshell - Powerman 5000
7) Bombs Over Baghdad (Rage Against the Machine remix) - Outkast
8) When Worlds Collide - Powerman 5000
9) NWO - Ministry
10) Faint - Linkin Park
1) O Fortuna - Orff
2) Great Gate of Kiev - Mussorgsky
3) 1812 Overture - Tchaikovsky
4) Firebird Suite - Saint Saens
5) the finale portion of Bacchanale - Saint Saens
6) Danse Macabre - Saint Saens
7) Night on Bald Mountain - Mussorgsky
8) In the Hall of the Mountain King - Grieg
9) Flight of the Valkyries - Wagner
11) Cathedral Chorus movement of Russian Christmas Music - Reed
12) Mars and Jupiter Movements of The Planets - Holst
If we're talking modern music:
1) Feuer Frei - Rammstein
2) Bodies - Drowning Pool
3) Die MF Die - Dope
4) (Turn Me On) Mr Deadman - The Union Underground
5) Push It - Static X
6) Bombshell - Powerman 5000
7) Bombs Over Baghdad (Rage Against the Machine remix) - Outkast
8) When Worlds Collide - Powerman 5000
9) NWO - Ministry
10) Faint - Linkin Park
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CPT (Join to see)
Good classical list, Sir. For Mussorgsky you have to be talking about the orchestrations Ravel did for him though, right? The plain old piano music originals aren't that interesting.
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SSgt Mark Lines
LTC Paul Labrador - Great list! I have had the pleasure of playing in an Orchestra that performed your classical music list. As a Bassoonist, I really enjoyed playing "In the Hall of the Mountain King", because I had a solo in that one!
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LTC Paul Labrador
SSgt Mark Lines - I fell in love with those songs when I was marching Drum Corps. Nothing like listening to those pieces played by a 60 piece brass choir!
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