Here's a bit of humor -- but true. It's about research I did on a beautiful art work for an article.
Some years ago I wrote an article about the altar rail at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Salem, Oregon. Episcopalians kneel during part of the service, and the rail is a large multi-sided circular figure, where many people can kneel, around the altar.
The kneeling rail is upholstered with needle-pointed panels, showing the sequencing of events in the Bible. Probably 30 people in the church were each given about a 6' square piece of needlepoint fabric, and some wool yarn. An artist was commissioned to design the panels, and the needle pointers each did their own creativity to needlepoint and embroider them in the most beautiful way. The art is truly splendid.
In interviewing the priest, though, I was interested to know why two of the panels were out of order. He explained that those two panels were moved to the back, because they were embroidered in white. Although the historical events in the Bible would have put those two panels in the front part of the kneeling rail, that is where the most people would be, so they would get dirty.
I laughed and said, "I can see it now: A couple of hundred years from now, some archeolgists will find remnants of this altar rail, and decide that your church had discovered some little known facts about Biblical history!"
I put this here, due to the discussion about the rhythm typos in the tune "Give Me Your Hand," which could very well end up in Bulgarian rhythms of 3/4 + 2/4 one of these days, if left the way it's shown now in The Session's notation page.
Hope this strikes you as funny. I'm not trying to b***ch.
How misinformation gets "canonized" into history
How misinformation gets "canonized" into history
Here's a bit of humor -- but true. It's about research I did on a beautiful art work for an article.
Some years ago I wrote an article about the altar rail at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Salem, Oregon. Episcopalians kneel during part of the service, and the rail is a large multi-sided circular figure, where many people can kneel, around the altar.
The kneeling rail is upholstered with needle-pointed panels, showing the sequencing of events in the Bible. Probably 30 people in the church were each given about a 6' square piece of needlepoint fabric, and some wool yarn. An artist was commissioned to design the panels, and the needle pointers each did their own creativity to needlepoint and embroider them in the most beautiful way. The art is truly splendid.
In interviewing the priest, though, I was interested to know why two of the panels were out of order. He explained that those two panels were moved to the back, because they were embroidered in white. Although the historical events in the Bible would have put those two panels in the front part of the kneeling rail, that is where the most people would be, so they would get dirty.
I laughed and said, "I can see it now: A couple of hundred years from now, some archeolgists will find remnants of this altar rail, and decide that your church had discovered some little known facts about Biblical history!"
I put this here, due to the discussion about the rhythm typos in the tune "Give Me Your Hand," which could very well end up in Bulgarian rhythms of 3/4 + 2/4 one of these days, if left the way it's shown now in The Session's notation page.
Hope this strikes you as funny. I'm not trying to b***ch.
Marian
# Posted on January 2nd 2002 by Marian63