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#ChoralMarch began with The King’s Singers performing Tallis’ “Spem in Alium”, so it seems appropriate as #MarianMay comes to an end to return to The King’s Singers and another work of the…
From labelmate of The Beatles on their own Apple Records, to composer of devout works of Orthodox faith, John Taverner followed an unconventional path from hippy fandom (the rather arch…
Regina caeli, laetare, alleluia; Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia, Resurrexit, sicut dixit, alleluia: Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia.
If ever a name sounded like a Hollywood Scotsman, it was Angus Murdo McKenzie. And if ever a name sounded like a Scottish fantasy of a Wild West cowboy, it…
Published in The New Yorker in 2008, here is a gem-like little poem by Richard Wilbur reflecting on the casual power of terza rima, the form in which Dante wrote the Commedia and…
What title could improve on “War Of The Monsters”? What animated logo could beat that of American International Pictures, Inc. which opens this picture with an appropriately stern invocation of…
Here is Clonmel’s own Frank Patterson with a song inextricably associated for many with the month of May and Mary: Here is Patterson singing this hymn live:
France’s last official dueltook place in 1967 between two French parliamentarians; Gaston Defferre, Mayor of Marseilles and newspaper owner, who shouted “Taissez-vous, abruti!” (Shut it, moron!) at Gaullist deputy…
Séamus Sweeney 