{"id":634,"date":"2015-12-07T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T22:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=634"},"modified":"2015-12-07T09:00:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T22:00:13","slug":"advent-calendar-day-9-o-magnum-mysterium-javier-busto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2015\/12\/07\/advent-calendar-day-9-o-magnum-mysterium-javier-busto\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 9 &#8211; O Magnum Mysterium (Javier Busto)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every Advent, I go looking for O Magnum Mysterium online, and every year I find that yet another composer has written his (or her, but so far I think only his) setting to this text (or rather, that their setting is now on YouTube), and then I have the nigh-impossible task of picking just one to write about here.<\/p>\n<p>This year, my new favourite is this dramatic setting by Javier Busto.\u00a0 Who, it turns out, is a contemporary of my parents, and hails from the Basque region.\u00a0 My parents do not hail from the Basque region, which is probably why they do not compose dramatic church music.<\/p>\n<p>I fell in love with the half-whispered section at the beginning, that amazing crescendo at the end, and the liveliness of the performance generally &#8211; most other versions online are much more calming and sedate, probably because they are being sung in church, but I think the drama of the music demands more.\u00a0 Also, and this has nothing to do with the music, but how gorgeous are the choir&#8217;s outfits?\u00a0 I want to join that choir just so I can wear a skirt like that.\u00a0 And let&#8217;s just give three cheers for the delight of having a choir that comes from the Southern Hemisphere!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Javier Busto: O magnum mysterium - Batavia Madrigal Singers\u202a, Dir. Avip Priatna\u202c\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kT5t3_DH7Ms?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The lyrics translate to &#8216;Oh great mystery and wonderful sacrament, that animals should see the new-born Lord lying in a manger! Blessed is the Virgin whose womb was worthy to bear Christ the Lord.\u00a0 Alleluia!&#8217;.\u00a0 Lots of good stuff there, and I can quite see why everyone wants to write their own version of this piece&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Advent, I go looking for O Magnum Mysterium online, and every year I find that yet another composer has written his (or her, but so far I think only his) setting to this text (or rather, that their setting is now on YouTube), and then I have the nigh-impossible task of picking just one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,14,68,350,538],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent","tag-advent-calendar","tag-batavia-madrigal-singers","tag-javier-busto","tag-o-magnum-mysterium"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}