Music
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Weekend Music I think this is appropriate for Advent. There are some nice images in the video (along with the lyrics–in Italian).
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Weekend Music I was too busy yesterday and today even to think about choosing a piece of music for this usual weekly feature, so was going to just skip it, but then Robert emailed me this. You'll enjoy it (even if they aren't always right in sync with those cards).
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Available now at eMusic.
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If a composition has no strangeness, there is no virtue in its stability. Stability without strangeness is the work of a commonplace hand; strangeness without stability, of an immature hand. —Gong Xian Quoted by Eve Tushnet.
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Weekend Music My friend Robert sent these to me a few days ago, and it was not until last night that I had a chance to listen to them. So, though it may seem perverse to label as "weekend music" a song as gloomy as this one, and more so to include two versions of…
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Weekend Music I was reminded of this by mention in another thread of an album by The Waterboys of Yeats poems set to music. This is the title song of an album by Laïs which features several Yeats poems, including two settings of "Leda and the Swan," one in English and one in what I take…
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This long profile is very well done and illuminating. When I was looking for information the other night I saw a lot of commentaries on the spiritual dimension of Welch's work. I didn't have time to stop and read most of them, but the title of this one, "Blessed With a Dark Turn of Mind,"…
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Sunday Night Journal — October 30, 2011 I was about to say that a couple of months ago I mentioned that this album was available for streaming from NPR. Then I checked the post where I mentioned it and found that it was actually four months ago—late June. This sort of thing is happening to…
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Weekend Music Just because I need to watch this every once in a while.
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A few weeks ago my wife suggested that I subscribe to a daily email from the Vatican News Service. I was a bit skeptical, figuring it would be mostly routine Vatican stuff: this guy is appointed bishop of that diocese, the president of such-and-such country will have an audience with the pope, etc. And there…
Light On Dark Water 