St. Louis Jesuits concert, anyone?

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i WOULD SO LOVE TO GO TO THIS!!! Unfortunately, I’m scheduled to work that weekend (hospital), so I’ll have to look for someone willing to trade.

My daughter is a SLU graduate and still lives in St. Louis, so we have free lodging!

Wow. Even if you hate their music, it’s such a part of music history (admittedly, a “niche” part of music history). How wonderful to hear and see the composers present their own music.

My husband and I were present at the last Keith Green concert before he was killed in a plane crash (along with several of his children). We have always been glad that we were at that concert.

Wow, thanks for posting this!
 
I like to remember playing all their music in high school guitar group with my best friend. She died of cancer last year so the memory is bittersweet now.

Don’t really wish to see them in concert, as for me, their music was about playing and doing harmonies and getting involved, not about sitting and listening to them do it.
 
I went to one of the midnight masses when I was an undergraduate at St Louis University when one of the Jesuits, I think Bob Duford played a song as part of the homily and that song was not yet recorded. They also had a two record album that no one talks about called “Peas, Carrots and Cabbages”. I bought it from the rectory there for five dollars.
 
It was at St Louis University that I learned to play the guitar. I believe the St. Louis Jesuits were a large part responsible for my wanting to play guitar during the Masses. I bought sheet music that had their picking patterns to the songs so I could play the songs exactly like they did.
 
That’s so sweet. 😊

I love so many of their songs – not that I want to sing them at mass. I love singing and playing them at home as part of my prayer. And I enjoy listening to many of them online. My favorite is “Take, Lord, Receive.” 💕 Such a beautiful prayer!

There are a few that I wish could disappear into the ether and never return. But that’s true of just about every composer/performer I enjoy.

I won’t be going to their concert, but I am thankful for their music.
 
I have other memories associated with those songs too. Providing music for the Bishop when he said Mass at our school. Also at my graduation, which was held in a church and included a Mass. The only members playing music were the outgoing seniors of the group - me and 2 other people - and our class president, who was a talented amateur musician but not in the guitar group, was supposed to lead the singing. About 2 days before graduation she got in an argument with the school administration and decided not to show up for graduation. Yours truly, who could sing very well but had a whopping year and a half of guitar playing, was asked at the last minute by the sisters running the show to lead the singing and playing. Jesus, Mary and Joseph all got me through that one, I didnt screw up. My mother was in total “That’s MY kid!” proud parent mode.
 
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I would have just as soon forgot it, but my mom brought it up every time she heard “On Eagles’ Wings” for the next 25 years. (yes I know that song isn’t St Louis Jesuits’ but it’s the same oeuvre and we had a couple Jesuits songs on the bill too)
 
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Haha, moms are like that! 😉 There are songs that remind me of my daughter because she learned them when she took piano lessons. “I believe I can fly.” “Music of the night.” “My one true friend.”
Ok, enough off topic. Sorry, OP.
 
No, I’m afraid I’m far away from St. Louis, not is it my taste in music, really. I certainly understand that many have a great fondness and nostalgia for it though.
 
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My tastes are very, very, very, “old fashioned” when it comes to music so not for me. I live faraway too, so there’s that.
 
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Are any of them even still in the order?

I recall that one went buddhist, and at least one of the others was laicized.
 
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