Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg live from the Glyndebourne Festival
I know that it’s a beautiful day out there, but that’s no excuse not to be settling down to six or so hours of some of the most glorious music ever written.
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“But do audiences want to acknowledge the nuts and bolts behind the illusion or would they prefer to focus on the actors, still in costume and still not totally separate from the story they have just told?”
— Jane Scott in The Guardian on applause at the theatre.
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“Peter,” she said, out of the blue, “by the end of the summer you won’t even remember her name.”
To that end, she took my hand in hers and did a half turn, raising my arm around her shoulder so that we were joined side by side, looking down over the rail at the mystery of the passing sea. I felt no need to pull away, intrigued by her detachment from the group’s mission, her awareness of something unbalanced in our group’s leisure to observe the ordinary French en famille.
”— Virgin Summer, a quite exquisite short story by John Rolfe Gardiner in The American Scholar.
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Gwendolen Chatfield - Silver Darlings
Gaelic psalms at Back Free Church, Isle Of Lewis- 20/21/oct/2003 (by greenmagoos)
The most painful decision of the year? Easy. Having to say “no” to this. Sadly it was not to be. Glyndebourne should be done properly or not at all. At least that’s what I’m going to keep on telling myself. Next year. Next year.
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BBC News: Inside the government’s wine cellar
Anyone want to invite me to a Government reception? A spot of 1961 Latour really wouldn’t go amiss.
The anthem This is the day
John Rutter (b 1945)
Specially commissioned by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster for the marriage of Prince William & Catherine Middleton.
This is the day which the Lord hath made: we will rejoice and be glad in it.
O praise the Lord of heav’n: praise him in the height.
Praise him, all ye angels of his: praise him, all his host.
Praise him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars and light.
Let them praise the name of the Lord.
For he shall give his angels charge over thee: to keep thee in all thy ways.
The Lord himself is thy keeper: the Lord is thy defence upon thy right hand;
so that the sun shall not burn thee by day: neither the moon by night.
The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: yea, it is even he that shall keep thy soul.
The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in: from this time forth for evermore.
He shall defend thee under his wings.
Be strong, and he shall comfort thine heart, and put thou thy trust in the Lord
— Psalms 118: 24; 148: 1–3, 5a; 91: 4a, 11; 121: 5–8; 27: 16b
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