Beauty we lost to the plague

15Dec11

I have not been able to listen to one of my favorite albums for many years, because it’s an LP and I no longer have a working turntable. It’s a recording of some of Alessandro Grandi‘s greatest liturgical work by the Accademia Monteverdiana, Trinity Boys’ Choir, directed by Denis Stevens, with tenors Edgar Fleet and [...]

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Tags: Alessandro Grandi, Bergamo, Denis Stevens, Mark Deller, mortality, Music for San Marco San Georgio and Santa Maria Maggiore, O quam tu pulchra es, plague, salve Regina, Song of Songs

Miserere my maker

30Oct11

My profession is to be aware of whatever is going on at the cutting edge of culture and media. Many of my contemporaries have blogs where they extol on the thrills and challenges of capitalizing on the latest movements in culture and society. Their blogs are cartes de visite on the exquisitness of their strategic [...]

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Tags: Alessandro Grandi, Alfred Deller, countertenor, eros, Ich freue mich auf meinen Tod, Mexican radio, Miserere my Maker, mortality, O quam tu pulchra es, Paul Thek, Peter Hujar, sin, thanatos, transcendence