30 thoughts on “Rosemary Liljegren”

  1. I went down to the land
    whose bars closed upon me for ever;
    yet thou didst bring up my life from the Pit,
    O Lord my God – Jonah 2:6

    Rest in peace, Rosemary.

    Andrew

  2. Lucia,

    Those who have passed away live on in us… both in flesh and memory. My thoughts are with you.

  4. May Rosemary rest in peace. May you and the others who loved her find comfort and strength in your loss.

  10. Lucia, that was a nice thought that accompanied the picture of your mother-in-law in her youth. It would have applied to my mother-in-law. My condolences to you and your husband and his family.

  11. R.I.P.

    Out of curiosity, who did you ask to get permission? ASCAP has this work (Work ID: 70063277, ISWC: T9050447193). “Permission is not required for music played or sung as part of a worship service unless that service is transmitted beyond where it takes place (for example, a radio or television broadcast).” The service may not be considered a public performance. It probably makes a difference if someone sings it live or a CD is played or the YouTube video is played, since then the performer is also added to the mix.
    http://www.ascap.com/licensing/licensingfaq.aspx#general

    The history of this song is here:
    gumbo.blogspot.com/2015/01/vespers-going-home.html

    “This piece was composed by William Arms Fisher (1861 – 1948), an American composer” and the music is from Antonín Dvořák’s New World Symphony.

  13. Do you mean ask to permission to play Going Home at a funeral?
    The tune was written by Dvorak and performed in 1893. The lyrics are by “William Arms Fisher, Boston, July 21, 1922”.

    http://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/GoinHome.htm

    There may be versions that are not in the public domain, but plenty exist in the public domain. Certainly Dvorak’s tune is public domain.

  14. OH– Now I understand what you are asking. We asked “The Catholic Church” (well, their music person). That person says they need to “ask corporate” whether we can use that song.

    The Catholic Church doesn’t let you just play any old thing. We were given a fairly short list of approved songs.

    Notably other songs not on “the list” of approved songs:
    Panis Angelicus (or anything by Aquinas).
    Most songs in your hymnal when we were kids.

    Most of the songs on the list we were given are crappy “guitar mass” songs. If they don’t let us play “Going Home” we are asking for “Panis Angelicus” or “Tatum Ergo”.

    That said: A no will remind us why we fell away from the church in the first place. Listening to the crummy selections on the approved list (at youtube) reminded us too. These songs were just totally annoying at a time when our tolerance for listening to that sort of thing is especially low.

    Jim did find some not-horrible songs on the list. (The music director said we picked “unusual” songs. They are the “organ” type songs.)

  16. John,
    Yes. Her father made it to 95! Jim’s side side has lots of people who made it to 90. Rosemary’s brother Bob is still alive. I think he’s about 89-92. Somewhere in there.

  17. BTW: “Corporate” got back on the song. We get to do “Going Home”. The organist had several selections.

    We wish the list had told us that it was ok to get other songs. It’s really written to make it seem that they want you to consider songs from a very short list (of mostly icky songs.)

    We would have picked songs much more quickly if we’d know it wasn’t hard to get a “yes”. Communion choice would probably have been Panis Angelicus– and we’d have looked at a few other ones.

    Plus we wouldn’t have had to torture ourselves listing to all the song’s Jim’s cousin Ruth calls “7-11” songs. (Short for same 7 word repeated 11 times.)

  21. Deepest condolences. Losses like that are rarely easy no matter how old they get.

  24. Lucia –
    I hope that the memories that you have of her are a comfort to you.
    Much sympathy to you and Jim.

  25. Condolences for your loss Lucia.
    my thoughts are with you and the family.
    what a lovely/poignant song the family have chosen, thanks for sharing..

  27. Dogugieh
    “We were young and we were improvin’
    Laughin’, laughin’ with our friends
    Holdin’ hands meant somethin’, baby
    Outside the club”Cherry Bomb””

    What’s to object to?

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