Category: Music
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Gloriana
Listening to a favorite work, perhaps not one of the monuments of Western music, but, well – Britten’s Choral Dances from Gloriana, a suite of all-too-short dances that represent a miniature masque held in the Elizabethan court. I love the whole opera, too, although the best recording doesn’t seem to be available any more; of…
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Cooler heads
Over the past couple of days the temperature has been dropping; today it is actually cold – raining, gray. Not miserable though; there’s a light behind the clouds, and it all just feels cool, refreshing; the mild autumn chill (yes, I know, in August? – well, this is northern Europe, near the North Sea) is…
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Indulgences
No, not Catholic ones. (Always amusing to note: although my father was brought up Catholic, and my mother Orthodox, they got married and became Presbyterian – which here, close to Scotland, is a tale that brings in a lot of incredulous looks. I suspect they want to know: why on earth would one become Presbyterian…
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Signal to noise
Awakened by the bass from that rather inane dance track that the girl downstairs has suddenly taken a liking to… or more probably it’s her ungracious Glaswegian boyfriend who likes, and plays, it. Good thing he’s rarely around. I know enough of apartment life in a variety of contexts to know that I’m lucky here;…
Paul Attinello 