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A musical pestilence
On An Overgrown Path —
Authority: 119
Last Sunday saw what I am certain will be my worst musical experience of 2009. The unfortunate event too place at a local church where we attended a carol service. I will not dwell on the clumsy modern editions of the Bible used for the readings or the insensitive texts that were interpolated between them. But I will ...5 days ago -
Podcast: In Terra Pax – A Christmas Anthology
Naxos Blog —
Authority: 120
Listening to this CD of lush English Christmas carols, it’s hard to believe that in the mid-1600’s, Christmas Day had been outlawed by an act of Parliament, and Christmas carols were forbidden. This was during the time of Oliver Cromwell, when anything that remotely suggested enjoyment was frowned upon. It ...6 days ago -
Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica
PRI's The World —
Authority: 639
DJ Spooky, whose real name is Paul Miller, is well-known in hip-hop circles. Hip-hop lives on the sonic samples of music from recent years. A few years ago, Miller became fascinated with a symphony written by the 20th century British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. It was called Sinfonia Antarctica, and Williams ...2 weeks ago -
Dreaming of Gerontius
The Plashing Vole: parataxis —
Authority: 141
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 ...2 weeks ago -
The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Alexandria —
Authority: 491
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 ...3 weeks ago -
Bravo, maestro
The Plashing Vole: parataxis —
Authority: 141
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 ...3 weeks ago
