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For Christmas – Yo-Yo Ma and Allison Krauss play “The Wexford Carol”
One of the oldest extant carols, and more properly called The Enniscorthy Carol (according to Roisin O’Gray of Tonos)
For Christmas Eve: Mitch Miller & the Gang, We Three Kings of Orient Are
Mitch Miller supposedly incarnated the worst of 1950s popular music, nearly destroying Sinatra with novelty numbers and generally inflicting cliché upon cliché that would be blown away in the 1960s.…
On distractions — Curving toward the center
Of course there are distractions, says the Lord: When there are others, they are the distraction, and when you are by yourself, you are the distraction! You can try to…
Antoinette Slovik
Earlier today I posted a scene from “The Victors” based on the execution of Eddie Slovik, the only US soldier shot for desertion in World War II. A detail in the…
From Lee Watkins’s blog – Henry Miller’s Christmas
One of the nice things about growing older is that you lose some of the inhibitions about admitting you haven’t read a particular writer. One of the less nice things…
“Tower of Ivory, House of Gold”: the Litaniae Lauretanae with Mozart, Zelenka, Heiligenkreuz Abbey and Benedict XVI
Contrary to the name, the “Litany of Loreto” is most likely to have originated in Paris between 1150 and 1200, according to this site. It is a litany of praises and…
Séamus Sweeney 