HAPPY 4-20!
Today I went to Church where today they are continuing on with there best of series. The reason being is that our co minister husband and wife team will be retiring in June and they thought it would be nice to revisit some of there favourite sermons.

Todays revisted sermon was Ode to Joy, based on a story by Unitarian minister Robert Fulgham’s escapade as a celebrity guest conducter in a symphony that was in the middle of turmoil. It was very good. The only downer for me was when the congregation was encouraged to sing the words to Ode to Joy at the end and I heard that damned pipe organ! I swear the guy who plays it likes to put extra flourishes on notes. His playing is just too over the top. It just did not sound good. It completely ruined it for me. It turned a nice light hearted sermon that featured snippets of Beethoven into a rapidly downward spiraling descent into hell.

Top rectify the pipe organ laden nightmare that occured during this morning I have posted below the late great Leonard Bernstein conducting Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony also known as Ode to Joy. The video starts off with Bernstein talking about the symphony for about three minutes then after that its pure musical ecstacy.

Leonard Bernstein Conducts Ode to Joy