” To Be Perfect Is to Have Changed Often”
It’s been a while since I posted anything linking to Adam deVille’s blog but I was struck by the title of the book he considers here. I am curious to…
#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…
#ToTheMoon #OnThisDay #FiftyYearsAgo #Apollo9 was launched #1969
No doubt this summer will see a tsunami of articles looking back fifty years to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s first walk on the moon (and Michael Collins’ pivotal role…
#ChoralMarch : March 3rd, Schola Antiqua, “Ego Te Tuli”
Founded in 1984, Schola Antiqua is dedicated “to the study, research, and performance of early music and, in particular, Gregorian chant.” This selection is taken from their recording Oficio De La Toma De…
#ChoralMarch, March 2nd, “I Want You”, The Sweptaways
A capella choral versions of rock and pop songs can be transformative. A little goes a long way with this trick, but the Sweptaways, a 20 piece Swedish female…
#ChoralMarch: March 1st, “Spem in Alium”, Thomas Tallis, performed by The King’s Singers
Each day in March I plan to share a choral piece. There is no particular plan or theme aside from my own taste. I will begin with one of the…
“Weren’t you delighted to see such beauty as hers?” : Introducing St Pelagia the Harlot
In “Of Martyrs, Monks, and Mystics: A Yearly Meditational Reader of Ancient Spiritual Wisdom”by Charles Ringma and Irene Alexander, I came across this quote from The Life of St. Pelagia…
Pedantry alert : please tell Dublin Airport the Phoenix Park does not have red deer
In a departure area in Dublin airport we find this: Here is the same (more or less) in the primary language of the Constitution : But of course, the deer…
Séamus Sweeney 