In the Gelernter post you wrote this: “What is a Dark Age? It is a time of mass amnesia.” I am trying to start a Latin program at my little Catholic school. It has met with the usual concerns about ...
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Cleobury, Ailish Tynan (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Britten Sinfonia (King’s College) Vaughan Williams’s dramatic cantata Dona nobis pacem (1936), to ...
Alexandra Coghlan for Building a Library recommends the best recording of Vaughan Williams's plea for peace, tolerance and understanding written in 1936, his Dona Nobis Pacem. The piece is on a huge ...
Participating choruses include New York City All City High School Chorus (Kristy Jung, Director) and Every Voice Concert Choir children's chorus (Nicole Becker, Director). In honor of the event, ...
Missa Mirabilis Colorado Symphony Orchestra Andrew Litton, Conductor Stephen Hough, Composer Colorado Symphony Chorus The coupling, Stephen Hough’s personable Missa mirabilis, was originally composed ...
If you want to get my goat, or, I daresay, the goat of any librarian, make a gratuitous reference to shushing. The finger held to the lips, the aggressive whisper, the frown at a pin’s drop. We don’t ...
Symphony No. 5 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, Conductor Preserved on two specially commissioned long-playing acetates in the possession of ...
Vaughan Williams described himself as a "cheerful agnostic", though that did not prevent him hedging his bets and composing specifically liturgical pieces, such as his well known Mass in G Minor, and ...
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