#ChoralMarch March 20th: Theme from “Harry’s Game”, Voces8
Voces8 take Clannad’s swirly, mysterious signature piece (the only song entirely in the Irish language to be a hit in Britain, apparently) and slow it down further to create an…
#ChoralMarch, March 19th: “Luminosity: 1. Lux Tenebris”, James Whitbourn
Born in 1963, James Whitbourn is a contemporary choral composer who began his career with the BBC. His “Luminosity” is one of the few choral works composed for dance and…
#ClockworkMusic with Zoltán Kodály and Fulvio Caldini
In case Choral March has been a little bit too, well, choral, here are a couple of purely instrumental pieces with a theme of clocks and clockwork. First, the Musical…
Jarod Gott on Tinder, writing and the presentation of the self
Recently I was at Dreams, Hallucinations and the Imagination, a conference organised by the University of Glasgow’s Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience. Dreams and like experiences are an interest…
#ChoralMarch: March 18th, Land of the Silver Birch, La Choraline
“Land of the Silver Birch” is a Canadian folk song from the 1920s, whose authorship seems to be disputed. Wikipedia asserts: The lyrics are sometimes erroneously attributed to Pauline Johnson, perhaps…
John Ayliff – “Is Thomas the Tank Engine hard science fiction?”
A 2015 blog post by John Ayliff observes: The early Railway stories were based on real railway incidents, and the characters were based on real models of locomotive (Thomas is…
#ChoralMarch: March 17th, #StPatricksDay, “The Deer’s Cry” by Arvo Pärt performed by the Sixteen
Happy St Patrick’s Day to all readers. A while back I blogged about the hymn known as St Patrick’s Breastplate or The Deer’s Cry . For the day, here is Arvo…
Séamus Sweeney 