“Woman, behold thy son. Behold thy mother”
From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s Seven Last Words: “THE THIRD WORD Woman, behold thy son. Behold thy mother. Our Divine Lord now turns, from the soul who at one bound…
Category: music
St Patrick’s Breastplate / The Deer’s Cry : music by Shaun Davey / Rita Connolly, Arvo Part, John Fahey, John Kenny, Melville Cook
As a child, I was somewhat mystified why a certain hymn in our religion books was called “St Patrick’s Breastplate” but went: Christ be beside me, Christ be before me,…
Ave Verum, Jean Cras
“As the Biblical proverb aptly professes, “None is prophet in his own land,” and in this respect, the esoteric impressionist composer, philosopher, scientist, inventor and Rear Admiral Jean Cras (1879-1932)…
Vic Damone RIP
Vic Damone has died aged 89.Surely one of the last of the post-war crooners (autocorrect just helpfully suggested “coroners”) He had the inevitable colourful life and the Personal Life section…
The lost world of Ana Olgica
(edit 22nd August 2018 – readers may also be interested in the careers of Amity Cadet and Enno Aare) Ana Olgica on Spotify. Continuing from my profile of the work…
The lost world of Amity Cadet
(edit 22nd August 2018 – readers may also be interested in the careers of Ana Olgica and Enno Aare) The works of the Vietnam-born French composer and pianist Amity Cadet…
Silence and the limits of language
“That for which we find words in something already dead in our hearts. There always is a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.” – Nietzsche, The Twilight of…
Séamus Sweeney 