#AprilCountry: April 1st, “Reasons to Quit” Merle Haggard / Willie Nelson
For April, I’m going to post various country songs… perhaps after the intensity of #ChoralMarch a more earthy turn is needed. I remember reading about Paddy McAloon of Prefab Sprout…
“O Believe , My Heart, O Believe!” – #ChoralMarch concludes March 31st with finale of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection”
It’s the end of my #ChoralMarch project. Thank you to those who commented kindly and Liked etc. I would like to go out on a high note, with the choral…
#MarchChoral: March 30th , “The Sound of Spirit” composed by Georgia Kelly, performed by Los Angeles Master Chorale
It sounds like a Russian Orthodox Choral work, but “Sound of Spirit” is by the harpist/composer Georgia Kelly and is a setting of the Rig Veda.
Flannery and Dante – a poem by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
At The Other Journal I come across this poem “riffing on Flannery O’Connor’s fandom for Dante” as the site itself puts it: Flannery and Dante For my money Dante is about as…
#ChoralMarch March 29th, “Sanctus” from “Missa Luba” – Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudoin
Like many I suspect, I was first exposed to this piece by its use in the film If… I saw this in the Irish Film Centre (which is how I…
Séamus Sweeney 