25 March 2016
John Donne: Upon the Annunciation and Passion Falling upon One Day.
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1608 Tamely, frail body, abstain to-day; to-day My soul eats twice, Christ hither and away. She sees him man, so like God made in this, ...
12 August 2015
Acetaria Caesaris apud Juliam
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Among culinary innovations of the last century, there are few as widespread, or as variable, as the Caesar salad. Rather like the sandwich ...
30 April 2015
An Introduction to Chorale Preludes
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The average church organist is at the distinct disadvantage of not being an organist at all. Rather, most are pianists, cajoled or coërced ...
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03 April 2015
Musical Mysticism & Intellect
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It is altogether too easy for students to acquire the prejudices of their teachers. This is particularly true in terms of taste, which is m...
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25 March 2015
"My eyes for beauty pine", Robert Bridges
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My eyes for beauty pine, My soul for Goddës grace: No other care nor hope is mine, To heaven I turn my face. One splendour thence is sh...
17 March 2015
Japonisme
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Like many renters, I have extravagant dreams of future home-ownership. There will be a library with lots of cherry-wood bookcases, and a su...
16 March 2015
Overworked Academics
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Quamobrem otium sanctum quaerit caritas veritatis; negotium justum suscipit necessitas caritatis. Augustine, De civitate Dei , XIX , §19 Ha...
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20 June 2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel
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Plane travel, as anyone can tell you, is onerous. (It is really quite convenient, of course, and somewhat miraculous, that we can cross the...
09 June 2014
The Hildebrandt Organ, Naumburg
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Today we made the trek out from Leipzig to Naumburg, to play the Hildebrandt Organ there. The weather being unseasonably warm for this par...
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25 March 2014
Lady Day
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One benefit of winter's continued presence here, in the desolate heart of this North American continent, is that, now that we've had...
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