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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 9, 2019February 22, 2019

#ChoralMarch – March 9th , “Scots Wha Hae”, Glasgow Phoenix Choir

As seems to be becoming a theme in this Choral March series of posts, this is not the version of “Scots Wha Hae” I would like to feature. In 2001…

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Posted on March 8, 2019February 22, 2019

#ChoralMarch: March 8th: “Black Christ of the Andes (St Martin De Porres)”, Mary Lou Williams

I’m conscious that some readers may find the music featured in Choral March excessively pious (of course, some may find it not pious enough) If these readers are unfamiliar with…

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Posted on March 7, 2019February 22, 2019

#ChoralMarch, March 7th, O Sacrum Convivium, Messiaen, sung by Choir of Trinity College Cambridge

Yesterday I posted about a now-lost Naxos sampler CD which included a version of “Hark! I Hear the Harps Eternal” I now long to hear. It also included Messiaen’s “O…

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Posted on March 6, 2019

Glass Paintings of a robin and of badgers from Black Hen Designs

A couple of charming glass paintings from Roscommon’s Black Hen Designs: Closer detail:

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Posted on March 6, 2019February 22, 2019

#choralmarch March 6th, “Hark! I Hear the Harps eternal”, Chanticleer

Around 2005/06 I picked up a freebie Naxos sampler CD which featured, amongst other gems, a wonderful version of “Hark! I Hear the Harps Eternal” by a mixed-sex choir whose…

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Posted on March 6, 2019

#AshWednesday with Evelyn Waugh in New Orleans, 1949

Via the Evelyn Waugh Society online I came across this from Waugh in 1949. It captures the falseness of the dichotomy betweent the fleshy pleasure of Mardi Gras and the…

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Posted on March 5, 2019February 21, 2019

#ChoralMarch, March 5th, “Kyrie”, Schola Gregoriana Hispana

Schola Gregoriana Hispana are a group ” founded and directed by Francisco Javier Lara in 1984 and born with the aim of rescuing from oblivion, neglect and ignorance the great musical treasure…

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