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I have previously blogged about Anthony Powell. I’m well aware that he had little time for Ireland and the Irish – not something especially hard to discern from a quote likethis…
Back during the summer heatwave I included Arnold Bax’s “Summer Music” in a seasonally appropriate playlist. Here via YouTube is a piece for this season: Bax himself disavowed programmatic…
“Summer Music”, Arnold Bax . Pastoral a l’ète, Arthur Honegger https://open.spotify.com/track/0hDA9MbcHvBpY9ukNTPoed?si=8iGa mQkLRyCu2NeFK_izIQ Frederick Delius, ‘A Song of Summer”
(edit August 30th – (edit 30th August 2018 – (edit 30th August 2018 – for further extracts from Arnold Bax’s “Farewell My Youth”, see here on the forgotten and despised man of…
(edit 30th August 2018 – for further extracts from Arnold Bax’s “Farewell My Youth”, see here on a strange experience in Dunfanaghy and here on a literary bus conductor. And I feature a seasonal…
(edit 30th August 2018 – (edit 30th August 2018 – for further extracts from Arnold Bax’s “Farewell My Youth”, see here on the forgotten and despised man of the Irish revolution,…
Séamus Sweeney 