Breaking my Sunday rule. Again.
I wish I could embed this, because I know some of you won’t click on these links. But let me tell you, it’s well worth your time. Really.
Breaking my Sunday rule. Again.
I wish I could embed this, because I know some of you won’t click on these links. But let me tell you, it’s well worth your time. Really.
Pavel Chesnokov: All-night vigil: Blessed is the Man;
University of Warsaw Choir,
baritone: Krzysztof Chalimoniuk
Just read this:
Dear friends of Salvatore Licitra,
Here is to inform that Salvatore Licitra suffered a severe traffic accident late Saturday night, August 27, in Modica (Ragusa, Sicily). He was brought to Garibaldi di Catania hospital where he had surgery and is treated for his serious injuries.
And here is a news article.
This doesn’t sound good.
Something quite different today … the serpent is a very old instrument, to be sure!
“Praefatio de Ascensione Domini” from Missale Romanun, Ex Decreto Sacrosancti Concelii Tridentini (MCMXXXV)
Douglas Yeo playing the serpent
… and since this was short, here’s a slightly more contemporary hymn on the serpent:
Mendelssohn: Beati mortui
Krin’s Singers
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth:
Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours;
and their works do follow them.