Thursday, February 16, 2012

Power to Change a Missionary

After listening to all of the audio documentaries, I really liked having music behind the first one. I know the first one was meant to be a 'bad' example, but I really appreciated the music. While the subject may have been a little boring and repetitive, I liked that it showed his talents and switched it up now and then. I also have a really hard listening to anyone who's going to monologue, particularly for a long period of time. I would like to find creative ways of telling the story of the person. For example, my roommate is extremely talented. She can play the piano really well, but her major is music therapy. She's using her music to help other people. I would love to get stories of how music can help, what she hopes to do, examples of her music. She also has an incredible personality so I hope to capture that by keeping the camera on, even when she may or may not be sure it is on, that way more of herself comes out.

http://broadcast2.lds.org/ldsradio/HistoryOfHymns/2009-07-0070-nearer-my-god-to-thee-64k-eng.mp3

The first time I heard an audio show, I was in the MTC. While I was there, they outlawed this, but my district would always go to the lds.org show and listen to the Mormon Channel. Now it has a website of its own. But my favorite one was this one. It goes through the history of the song, Nearer My God to Thee. It demonstrates its development with a lot of different renditions of it. While I loved hearing the evolving of this song, I really liked just hearing the different versions. My favorite one is at 28:08 by Vocal Point. I love it! I would get lost in the song and it would remind me of how close I could be God and inspired me to do better. Anyways, that was the first time that I realized how much joy I could find out of an audio program.

2 comments:

  1. I am so happy you posted this! I have always wondered about hymns. I didn't realize that audio pieces could be a cool teaching tool as to the people behind hymns. I love how there is the narrator and has the hymn, "Nearer my God to Thee" playing in the background. It keeps me interested in the podcast, keeps me listening. Thanks for sharing!

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  2. PS- I live so close to Medfield, Massachusetts (where Mason is from).

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