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• Dreaming of Gerontius

  
  The Plashing Vole: parataxis — Authority: 144
  I went to a performance of Elgar s The Dream of Gerontius on Saturday, at Birminghams stunningly-restored Town Hall. The performance was by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment , and the Ex Cathedra Choir. Jeffrey Skidmore conducted and the soloists were Anna Stéphan y, Adrian Thompson and Roderick ...
  3 days ago

• The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 488
  One of the most beloved of 20th-century classical compositions, The Lark Ascending , by one of its most beloved composers, England’s Ralph Vaughan Williams. We may have first heard the work just over ten years ago by chance early one quiet morning on Maine Public Radio, and were in short order full-blown Vaughan ...
  1 week ago

• Bravo, maestro

  
  The Plashing Vole: parataxis — Authority: 144
  Morning. Chained to your workstations again? Im feeling rather sunnily-disposed today. Saturday saw me, neatly attired in a decent suit, attend a very dull but useful fencing meeting (a whole regions AGM with 7 people present…) during which we picked the teams for the competition Im managing. It dragged on so long ...
  1 week ago

• Perfect Harmonium

  
  The Plashing Vole: parataxis — Authority: 144
  This is an extract from John Adamss Harmonium , one of my favourite pieces of music of all time, one of the pieces that provides solace, excitement or passion whenever I need it. This second piece is the first of three extracts from Vaughan Williamss Flos Campi , basically a viola concerto. Ive ...
  4 weeks ago

• Reconciliation

  
  Gordon Cheng's blog — Authority: 423
  This poem by Walt Whitman, Reconciliation , was set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams: Word over all, beautiful as the sky! Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost; That the hands of the sisters Death and Night, incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soild ...
  5 weeks ago

• Its OK, Im not grumpy any more

  
  The Plashing Vole: parataxis — Authority: 144
  Well, apparently the antidote to feeling miserably ill is to go to a union negotiating committee. I dont feel physically better, but my spirits have lightened considerably. Weve got a clear strategy and a solid plan of action which will discomfit the idiots who claim to manage us. Meanwhile, heres some of the music ...
  5 weeks ago

• Yet more culture

  
  The Plashing Vole: parataxis — Authority: 144
  Ive just received Tove Janssons novel for adults (not an adult novel), The True Deceiver , and my ticket for The Dream of Gerontius , Elgars massive oratorio, performed at Birminghams wonderful Town Hall . Thus inspired, Ive just bought a ticket for Symphony Halls performance of Vaughan Williams  A Sea ...
  5 weeks ago

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