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Bach: St. Matthew Passion Now that I understand why this is considered one of the landmarks of music, I have no intention of trying to communicate that knowledge in a paragraph or two. Not that I would be able to do it justice at any length: aside from my lack of technical knowledge, there is…
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by Joseph Bottum. Good Friday meditation starts with the "Midway on life's journey…" paragraph. If you don't already know the Donne poem he quotes, be sure to click over and read the whole thing. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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I’m going to let further discussion of Traherne wait for a week, or maybe two. A topic more appropriate for Palm Sunday occupies my mind today. Pontius Pilate and the Infinitely Thin Line This sentence, a brief aside in the Passion according to St. Luke which was read today at Mass, strikes me as one…
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Robert Gotcher asks how I convert lps to cds, and I thought I would answer in a post rather than a comment, so it can be found again more easily, as it's going to include some links that are worth remembering. First: Erik supplies this link, which is extremely thorough (thanks, Erik). Second: here's a…
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Van Morrison: Common One The reader who signs himself “Jack” quotes—strikingly in the context—a lyric from this album in a comment on this month-old thread, prompting me to avail myself of it as another Music of the Week entry which I can write about without listening to again. Jack shortens the line a bit: where…
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The discussion about the Incredible String Band got me curious about what Robin and Mike have been doing for the past twenty years or so, so I went over to AMG to look and got a big and intriguing surprise: Robin is now recording for ECM. If you don't know, ECM is very much a…
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Discovering Traherne (2) I mentioned last week that this has so far been a rather unreflective Lent for me. The main problem is the medium by which you’re reading this. It doesn’t do any good, or not much, to turn off the television and stop the flow of hysterical “news” from that source, or to…
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Arvo Pärt: Kanon Pokajanen I’ve heard only a fairly small portion of Pärt’s music, so I can’t say that this is his masterpiece. I do feel justified in saying that it is a masterpiece. I’m sorry that I was not able to get this note onto the web well before Lent was over, as Kanon…
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…and computers were computers, John Backus and associates developed FORTRAN, formally released in 1957. He was also the "B" in "BNF," for Backus-Naur Form, a very elegant notation for describing formal grammars (e.g. computer languages). (Not that I was ever very knowledgeable or proficient with things at that level of abstraction, but I think it's…
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…and then I might think about considering the possibility of stepping out on this thing. I don't like heights. Gives me the heebie-jeebies just to look at the picture. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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