Musicians Funeral...

[PeruvianSkies]

Here's a morbid, yet fun question....

If you could have ANY music (dead or alive) play for your funeral who would it be, why, and what song would you have them play?

[Rae]

Yeah, best not to spend too much time dwelling on what might happen at our funerals. I'm all for confronting mortality head-on-- sometimes I think that we have a real cultural neuroticism about death-- but isn't a funeral really for those that we leave behind more than it is for us?

That said, if anyone was going to play anything, I'd like it to be my friends that play music. I think it'd be appropriate... playing music can really have a cathartic effect (allowing us to express things that we aren't necessarily able to express verbally), and that's probably what a funeral is for anyway.

~Rae

[PeruvianSkies]

Yeah, best not to spend too much time dwelling on what might happen at our funerals. I'm all for confronting mortality head-on-- sometimes I think that we have a real cultural neuroticism about death-- but isn't a funeral really for those that we leave behind more than it is for us?

That said, if anyone was going to play anything, I'd like it to be my friends that play music. I think it'd be appropriate... playing music can really have a cathartic effect (allowing us to express things that we aren't necessarily able to express verbally), and that's probably what a funeral is for anyway.

~Rae

True, the music played would not really be for 'us' necessarily, although what is being played I would hope would have some significance to our life and therefore those at our funeral would be touched through the music and how it related to our life in some way.

[Rae]

Like one final message from beyond the grave? I suppose. But if you were going to go that route, isn't it kind of strange to let words written by someone else (and not originally about you) do the talking?

But I get what you're saying. Just in fun. Did you have something or someone in mind for yrself?

~Rae

[PeruvianSkies]

Like one final message from beyond the grave? I suppose. But if you were going to go that route, isn't it kind of strange to let words written by someone else (and not originally about you) do the talking?

But I get what you're saying. Just in fun. Did you have something or someone in mind for yrself?

~Rae

Yeah, I think i'd have Bach's "Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ" being played by Bach himself on one of the worlds best organs (wherever that may be).

As seen here being played by this cat...

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and in a cool classical guitar style by this cat....

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I think the song reminds me of mortality and spirituality, it has this sense of longing to it, it just sounds like a great funeral song that is both aching, yet beautiful at the same time. I think of funerals (at least mine) as both a sad and joyous occasion because I believe I'm going to a better place, so to me it's not really a sad day, although it's sad for the departed.