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[pantryslut]

My wrist is feeling much better after a half-day or so of rest.

Which is good, because it's Deadline Weather again.

In that spirit, it appears I may be writing a story about music for lesbian weddings next month. So I thought I'd take a poll:

1) What songs should no DJ playing a lesbian wedding gig be without?

2) Any suggestions on alternative processionals when you're sick of Mendelssohn?

Comments

jews use

[bearsir.livejournal.com]

Dodi Li for a processional, a melody which includes the words "ani l'dodi v'dodi li" - "I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine." Very lovely.

'Zat help?

Various sorts of music suggestions

[brooksmoses]

Well, there's the rendition of Pomp and Circumstance that Walter Carlos did, which includes about a minute and a half of mixing it quite thoroughly with the William Tell, but that's really rather more appropriate for a high school graduation that's gone on far too long, or at the very most for a recessional....

For more serious answers, a look at the soc.couples.weddings FAQ suggests Wedding Music suggestions from the UVa Music Library, along with its own list.

Suzi and I used "Let There Be Peace On Earth" for our processional, and "Joyful, Joyful" (the hymn arrangement of the familiar choral bit of Beethoven's ninth) for the recessional.

[thette.livejournal.com]

I hear "A Trumpet Voluntary" is quite popular.

But ask me again in a year...

[fattest.livejournal.com]

my cynical processional suggestion:

"walk on by" by burt bacharach (as sung by dionne, of course)

[abostick59.livejournal.com]

Funny you should mention that. The vastly overused wedding march from Richard Wagner's Lohengrin, when you give it any thought at all, is at least as ill-omened as "Walk On By."

(It's the Wagner you're really thinking of — the the thing that goes "tum tum te tum ... " ["Here comes the bride..."], isn't it, Lori? The Mendelssohn thing is more often used as a recessional.)

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

No, I actually meant Mendolssohn, but that's because I forgot all about the recessional part. Seriously. I am just not a big wedding person!

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Why not? That's not any worse than all those people who think that stalker song extraordinaire, "Every Breath You Take" by the Police, is sooooo romantic and it must be played at their reception please.

[zyxwvut.livejournal.com]

Went to a great wedding in late July where some
Cirque du Soleil music was used to good advantage,
for both the pro- and recessionals.

(Exactly which pieces they were, are most likely
in some mid-August post in cr0wgrrl's
journal.

Z

P.S.: Nice to see you (watch you?) t'other
night.