Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Andrea Gabrieli - Magnificat a 12


Not sure where the choir is from or who is directing.  The church they're singing in is rather gorgeous and, it would seem, has incredibly live acoustics.

Update:  The Banning of Mary’s Magnificat:

Frequently throughout history, people on the margins have identified with this powerful poem and been inspired to believe that God can actually bring liberation to their plight.  In fact, in the past century at least three different countries have banned the public recitation of Mary’s Magnificat.  These governments considered the song’s message to be dangerously subversive.

During the British rule of India, the Magnificat was prohibited from being sung in church. In the 1980s, Guatemala’s government discovered Mary’s words about God’s preferential love for the poor to be too dangerous and revolutionary. The song had been creating quite the stirring amongst Guatemala’s impoverished masses.  Mary’s words were inspiring the Guatemalan poor to believe that change was indeed possible.  Thus their government banned any public recitation of Mary’s words. Similarly, after the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo—whose children all disappeared during the Dirty War—placed the Magnificat’s words on posters throughout the capital plaza, the military junta of Argentina outlawed any public display of Mary’s song.

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