One Christmas Chord
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2022 10:45 am
The NY TImes has an extended article on one chord in "Oh Come, All Ye Faitful"
‘Everyone Wants to Hear’ This One Chord in a Christmas Carol
When I was growing up, our Lutheran Hymnal did not contain this arrangement but it does seem to be what our organist was playing. I knew nothing of half-diminished sevenths, of course.
‘Everyone Wants to Hear’ This One Chord in a Christmas Carol
“It’s a startling moment,” David Hill, the musical director of the Bach Choir, said in a telephone interview. “I remember being a boy of 10 playing it in my church in Carlisle, and loving every moment of it, thinking: ‘What is this? This is outrageous!’”
When I was growing up, our Lutheran Hymnal did not contain this arrangement but it does seem to be what our organist was playing. I knew nothing of half-diminished sevenths, of course.