Comments for sursumcorda.salemsattic.com/post/a-hymn-diversion

Comment #3163

2018-12-20T13:08:42Z

I was hoping to be able to help you out, but it is not familiar to me. Very beautiful, though!

Comment #3162

2018-12-17T14:30:54Z

Aargh. Now I'm going crazy. The more the tune goes through my head, the more I know I've sung it, and I think in a very emotional context. Yet I cannot bring any words to mind. Time, perhaps, will tell.

Comment #3161

2018-12-17T14:07:04Z

That is so beautiful! Especially the voice and the oboe. We have "By Gracious Powers" in our hymnal, to two different tunes, neither one of which is the one he is singing. Do you know what that tune is? It wounds vaguely familiar, as if I may sometime, somewhere, have sung the pop version you mention, but my mind can dredge up no lyrics.

Comment #3160

2018-12-16T00:08:28Z

Bonhoeffer's poem "Von guten Mächten treu und still umgeben" has been set to music and is quite popular, especially the pop version that uses the last verse as the refrain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPuX5vZ_Ggw.

Comment #3159

2018-12-15T23:03:46Z

"By Gracious Powers"

I'm now sitting in the Charlotte airport due to a four-hour flight delay, so it might refuse to recignize me again.

Comment #3158

2018-12-14T00:04:46Z

Sorry for the need to moderate your comments, Kathy, which is why they didn't show up at first. It happens whenever someone posts from a new computer, or something else changes. It should remember you again now. I deleted the duplicate. Which one is Bonhoeffer's?

Comment #3157

2018-12-13T23:53:30Z

I'm intrigued by the Bonhoeffer one - I didn't know he's written any hymns.

Comment #3156

2018-12-13T23:52:32Z

I know one hymn "Come Holy Ghost our Souls Inspire", but it's an ancient Latin one, and they attribute their choice to Wesley. But they also attribute "Savior of the Nations Come" to Luther and he just translated it from Latin (Veni, Redemptor Gentium) to German (Nun komm, den Heiden Heiland)

Comment #3155

2018-12-13T18:52:07Z

Of the three lists you gave, tjere are 15 I don't know (at least not with the words provided). Perhaps, I'd recognize some of them by the hymntune.