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Posted on April 21, 2019April 17, 2019

Curlews in The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan’s thrillers are not exactly politically correct by today’s standards, but contain many gems of prose – especially on the natural world and on the cares of power.  There is…

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Posted on April 18, 2019February 14, 2019

Music for #GoodFriday – Liszt’s “Via Crucis”, piano setting played by Reinbert de Leeuw

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Posted on April 17, 2019April 13, 2019

#AprilCountry – April 17th, “If Jesus Leads This Army”, Howard Haney

I came across Howard Haney rather randomly via Spotify – on “The Half Ain’t Never Been Told: Early American Religious Rural Music” album From Hillbilly Music.com , here is a…

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Posted on March 23, 2019

#ChoralMarch, March 23rd, “Echelon’s Song”, Red Army Chorus

This plays over the credits of the Coen Brothers’ wildly entertaining ode to the last days of the Hollywood Studio System, Hail Caesar! You’ll have to watch it to find…

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Posted on March 10, 2019March 9, 2019

#ChoralMarch – March 10th “Mó Ghile Mhear” (arranged Desmond Earley), UCD Choral Scholars

This ChoralMarch series probably wouldn’t exist were it not for Desmond Earley and the UCD Choral Scholars. A few years back they released a CD of choral works from Ireland…

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Posted on March 4, 2019February 17, 2019

#ChoralMarch, March 4th, “The Besoms”, Male Choir of the Moscow Academy of Vocal Arts

If there is a vocal tradition I am most drawn to, it is the Russian. Around 2000 I saw the UCD Choral Scholars (more of which later this month)  in…

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Posted on February 23, 2019February 22, 2019

Happy Real Bread Week to (and with) the Auld Mill Bakery in Grangemockler

It is Real Bread Week. As I am sure you knew. The Real Bread Campaign is encouraging people to bake their own, or to buy additive free locally made loaves.…

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Posted on January 19, 2019

“Tetris” theme played on organ of St Joseph’s Church, Glasthule by Rónán Murray

The title says it all….though the piece is more properly called Korobeiniki  

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