Going To A Church Tonight

[Fireball]

Do tell...

I would have eaten a facken pickle! A pickle!

I don’t know what you were thinkin’  

A pickle?!?!? guh.

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The Phoenix Symphony is doing Handel's Messiah at one.  The only way they'll get me into one of those dens of ill repute!

L8r.

Just go to enjoy the music, and marvel at the amount of money wasted on the architecture.

[Rev. Rye]

The Phoenix Symphony is doing Handel's Messiah at one.  The only way they'll get me into one of those dens of ill repute!

L8r.

The few times I’ve bothered to go to a church the past few years, almost all of them (except my mother’s funeral and the Christmas Eve service the year before) involved some other work of art of more redeeming value coming to it, one that stood out was a traveling chamber opera company doing their version of the Abduction from the Seraglio. It’s still a work I don’t have enough of a feel for to know if they got it right. The other two times I can remember, it was actually in small box theatres that just happened to be in the same building as a church, one an adaptation of The Seven Percent Solution in Edgewater, and a production of The Complete works of Shakespeare Abridged in Evanston. Also, does the Ryman count as a church for the purposes of this discussion? Because I went there as a tourist to Nashville three years ago.

[Ravenshire]

The Phoenix Symphony is doing Handel's Messiah at one.  The only way they'll get me into one of those dens of ill repute!

L8r.

Beware the torches and pitchforks, Min!

[Minimalist]

I survived.  No funny hats.  It was a Lutheran church so no silly-ass statues of supposed saints or virgin mothers or other holy horseshit.  The only cross I noted seemed to be built into a window and had 4 panes of glass in each quandrant.  Utilitarian if nothing else.  Also, there was a cross beam for the ceiling running right into the top of the cross and it had a bunch of spot lights on it.  I guess they could have used it to illuminate the godboy when he was nailed up?  I did notice all sorts of pagan xmas decorations like trees and wreaths but no nativity scene.  I guess the Lutherans took jesus out of xmas?  Good thinking.

Once when the soprano did a little ornamentato on the word "heathen" I thought she was talking to me.  Another time when she was singing about the "king cumeth unto thee" I did think of some of the pervs around here.

Finally, when the chorus opened up with "all we like sheep...."  I couldn't help but think of G-C and Dripshit and Stevie and Little Rik and the rest of our resident bleaters.

A good performance though.

[ignoramus]

^^^

[downbeatplumb]

Do tell...

I would have eaten a facken pickle! A pickle!

I don’t know what you were thinkin’  

Pickles are nice.

[vorlon13]

I survived.  No funny hats.  It was a Lutheran church so no silly-ass statues of supposed saints or virgin mothers or other holy horseshit.  The only cross I noted seemed to be built into a window and had 4 panes of glass in each quandrant.  Utilitarian if nothing else.  Also, there was a cross beam for the ceiling running right into the top of the cross and it had a bunch of spot lights on it.  I guess they could have used it to illuminate the godboy when he was nailed up?  I did notice all sorts of pagan xmas decorations like trees and wreaths but no nativity scene.  I guess the Lutherans took jesus out of xmas?  Good thinking.

Once when the soprano did a little ornamentato on the word "heathen" I thought she was talking to me.  Another time when she was singing about the "king cumeth unto thee" I did think of some of the pervs around here.

Finally, when the chorus opened up with "all we like sheep...."  I couldn't help but think of G-C and Dripshit and Stevie and Little Rik and the rest of our resident bleaters.

A good performance though.

Any signs of incipient total spontaneous human combustion while you were there ??


If not, I think we have a pretty good indication God either isn't, or is a Minimalist Himself.

[J a c k]

I would have eaten a facken pickle! A pickle!

I don’t know what you were thinkin’  

Pickles are nice.

Pickles are Satan. They’re ebola holding hands with Trump’s teeth. Pickles are poopy diapers.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Nowt wrong with going into a church (as opposed to 'going to church').  I used to make a fair bit playing folk masses and funerals.

Boru

[Shell B]

The Phoenix Symphony is doing Handel's Messiah at one.  The only way they'll get me into one of those dens of ill repute!

L8r.

We're lucky to have an Opera House that hosts the Handel and Haydn society in Boston. I think they do sometimes perform at the Old North Church, unless I'm thinking of something else altogether.

We went a Unitarian Universalist church up the road from us for free chowder and tea during our town's holiday stroll. It was quite lovely inside and they had a 19th century organ that I enjoyed listening to. I might go back for service just to hear some songs. I don't think they'd mind.