#351: O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
Feb. 16th, 2020 10:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsThis is the nicely-harmonized Bach chorale we've come across a couple times before, with the old text it goes to--this also shows up in Bach's "St. Matthew's Passion," so it's probably the most famous text associated with it.
I'm going to guess that the second most-famous text associated with it is not the Haugen or the Prodigal Son stuff we've seen, but rather another labor union text. The first draft of that was "Because All Men Are Brothers," but that was too sexist, so now it's been updated to "Because We All Are Family." The union choir was heavy on "just repeat this melody/harmony after me," I was one of the few people there who preferred to read music (well, let's be real, I was one of the few people there, period), so it was nice being able to be like "yes, please just let me read the alto part, it's Bach! I know this one!!"
I'm going to guess that the second most-famous text associated with it is not the Haugen or the Prodigal Son stuff we've seen, but rather another labor union text. The first draft of that was "Because All Men Are Brothers," but that was too sexist, so now it's been updated to "Because We All Are Family." The union choir was heavy on "just repeat this melody/harmony after me," I was one of the few people there who preferred to read music (well, let's be real, I was one of the few people there, period), so it was nice being able to be like "yes, please just let me read the alto part, it's Bach! I know this one!!"
