Mr. Bigg at My Confessions asked me to do the following meme – I am tardy in doing it but I did it!

1. Name five songs you’re listening to right now.
2. For each song, name the memory or feeling that it evokes.
3. Tag three other people to play along.According to Mr. Ipod, there are my latest five songs:
1. Mummer’s Dance – Loreena McKennitt

2. Requiem – Mozart 3. With One Look – Patti LaPone

4. 17 Again - Eurythmics

5. Widerstehe doch der Sunde – J.S. Bach

1. Ms. McKennitt’s music evokes lots of good memories and feelings. Her music makes me think of the autumn time, when I first heard her. She also makes me think of the many trips to Stratford, Ontario, to attend the Festival. I have been going to the Stratford Festival for over 25 years. There is a feeling of something archaic and pagan in this song; deep roots. 

2. I was listening to this in preparation of hearing my mother sing it last Good Friday. It makes me think about death; but not in a negative or sad way. There is a sort of sorrow to it, but there is comfort. It is one of my favorite pieces of music.I sometimes play it at the end of the day as a routine to the day’s end. It makes me think of the passing of time and where am I going. Ultimately towards death. 

3. This song grabs me; I suspect because it is the call of the Anima. She can be anything and everything; and she has power. I have many different recordings of this song. I joke that if I can find one more singer doing it, I could make my own CD and call it ‘with 10 looks’ 

4. I like Annie Lennox. This song tells me not to be afraid to try bold new things; be watchful of taking the ‘safe road’. The line ‘we should have jumped out of that airplane after all” says it all. 

5. This is my favorite Bach Cantata. I first heard it in college. It makes me feel pleasantly at-ease. I was watching TV while doing some ironing in my college apartment when I first heard it; it is one of those ‘tunes’ that imprint the scenario permanently in the mind.