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More Tripod
Here’s another beautiful music clip from Tripod (with Eddie Perfect).
They’re singing Paul Kelley’s Middle of the Air.
The lyrics are a bit of a Psalm 23/1 Thessalonians 4/John 13 mashup, which is pretty remarkable given this recording is by (as far as I know) a bunch of non-Christian blokes on ABC’s The Sideshow, of all places.
I can sing a bit, but listening to this makes me wish I could, you know, sing.
Enjoy.
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I am familiar with the Paul Kelly song which I have downloaded from iTunes, but this rendition is in my opinion better. It is beautiful. I tried to find it on youtube to download it, but I could find it. How would one download it? Any tips?
Regarding your comments re this being sung by non-Christians. We Christians often get little surprises like this don’ we? We probably shouldn’t be surprised though, since music is a gift of God’s common grace. One just needs to think of the music of Bach, much of which was composed originally for church choirs. But today, I would venture to say, that most of his music is now performed by secular choral groups in the concert hall. Bach himself composed to glorify God. His music manuscripts were signed of “Solo Deo gloria” Great music will always endure.
Handel’s “Messiah” is loved and sung by Christians and non-Christians.
I remember going to a performance many years ago in Cape Town, South Africa, presented by the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, what still stays with me were the programme notes. Whoever wrote them made a valient but foolish effort to explain the music and words without giving any religious flavour to his/her notes. His/her ludicrous conclusion was “The Messiah puts to music passages taken from a well-known religious text. Both the music and the words depict the struggle of the human spirit to find enlightenment and meaning. For these reasons it continues to resonate with modern listeners”
Jonathan Hill in his book “What has Christianity Ever Done for Us?” (IVP)shows how Christian consciousness has permeated our culture and shaped the modern world. He points out that in every field the influence of Christianity can be seen.
I have another example of music as a gift of common grace. I now live in the USA, and although I am not really a fan of Country and Western music, it is clear that much of that music and its lyrics has its roots in Christianity. It is usually a very sentimental, mushy kind of Christianity but is nevertheless Christian.
Whatever one’s music taste may be, we can continue to enjoy this gift of God to us.
God bless.
Peter
Peter,
Thanks for your thoughts. Quite true. I sung Handel’s Messiah at my (secular) high school with the choir, along with a number of other religious texts. I suppose the same could also be said for literature, especially poetry.
If you search for “tripod middle air” on youtube you’ll come up with 2 links, which are of the same event.
Alternatively, the url is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VGHfpvkI1c
As far as downloading goes, I’ve found one site which is good for downloading videos from youtube:
http://vixy.net/
You put in the url of the youtube video, choose your output format, and it will convert the file and download it for you. It works well for me.
Sam.