In the Gelernter post you wrote this: “What is a Dark Age? It is a time of mass amnesia.” I am trying to start a Latin program at my little Catholic school. It has met with the usual concerns about ...
A Dona Nobis Pacem charity concert will take place at Temppeliaukio Church (Temppeliaukion kirkko) in Helsinki on 19 October ...
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Cleobury, Ailish Tynan (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Britten Sinfonia (King’s College) Vaughan Williams’s dramatic cantata Dona nobis pacem (1936), to ...
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” — Leonard Bernstein In light of increasing violence in our world, this quote ...
Alexandra Coghlan for Building a Library recommends the best recording of Vaughan Williams's plea for peace, tolerance and understanding written in 1936, his Dona Nobis Pacem. The piece is on a huge ...
Participating choruses include New York City All City High School Chorus (Kristy Jung, Director) and Every Voice Concert Choir children's chorus (Nicole Becker, Director). In honor of the event, ...
Missa Mirabilis Colorado Symphony Orchestra Andrew Litton, Conductor Stephen Hough, Composer Colorado Symphony Chorus The coupling, Stephen Hough’s personable Missa mirabilis, was originally composed ...
If you want to get my goat, or, I daresay, the goat of any librarian, make a gratuitous reference to shushing. The finger held to the lips, the aggressive whisper, the frown at a pin’s drop. We don’t ...
It would be fascinating to know how Vaughan Williams conducted the first London performance of his Sancta Civitas with what was then his Bach Choir. Was his interpretation so well-mannered, so ...
In that matter of impact, King’s Chapel plays its part, not only in the acoustic halo that surrounds Ailish Tynan’s opening plea, but the space surrounding and somehow uplifting strings and voices: ...
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