Music Fast

Our ward has been challenged to participate in a musical fast. We kicked it off tonight with a fireside this evening which included both Sacrament meeting appropriate music and some that is perhaps a little more off-the-wall but still Spirit-bringing. My favorites of the evening involved our second counselor playing "Follow the Prophet" on his tenor saxophone and my roommate Becca playing a piano solo. Beautiful stuff. Anyway, back to the challenge: for the next two weeks, listen to Sunday-appropriate music (so, not necessarily just the hymns, but a variety of other music, like what we heard tonight) and, at the end of the two weeks, re-evaluate the music we listen to and perhaps make some changes in our life.

Some of the music I'll be keeping in my arsenal for the next two weeks:

• Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time orchestral recordings
• Soundtracks (like LotR, Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia, Pride & Prejudice, Fantasia 2000, etc.)
• Mormon Tabernacle Choir recordings
  
• Inside Out (great a capella group)
  
• Michael Bublé
• Josh Groban
• some of my band recordings
• Copland (oh, bless his heart)
  
• Seminary soundtracks
• a lot of classical music (like Holst, Robert W. Smith)
• Jenny Oaks Baker
• the 5 Browns
• Paul Cardall
• Michael Dowdle
• some Broadway (especially what the MoTab has recorded and Disney stuff)