Today's a busy day what with school and tuition and unpacking, etc, so there's not much time to write, but I will pop on today's Advent Offering - a very well known exerpt from 'The Messiah' based on that well known prophesy from Isaiah.
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
(Isaiah 9:6)
I was so impressed that you had knitted the nativity crib--- what a lovely accomplishment. jean/winnipeg.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jean. It's a bit fiddly but once you get used to her style, it's not a complicated as it looks. :-)
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What a coincidence! I was playing Messiah only a day or two ago, wonderful, wonderful music even - if like me - you are not religious. Have sung this on a number of occasions when I was with the choral society to which I was a member many years ago.
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We went to a baroque performance of Messiah at our local Abbey on Saturday night. Truly marvellous start to Christmas.
ReplyDeleteSnap, Margaret! It is gorgeous, powerful, strong music and so loved.
ReplyDeleteA Baroque performance sounds fantastic - hearing it closer to how audiences would have experienced it then.
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I love Choral music, Joy, even though I'm not religious. I love Elijah and even Britten's War Requiem. Mozart's Requiem is just sublime, and of course, I think everyone knows the Verdi Requiem! And Faure, too, of course. I don't think anyone need be religious to enjoy such wonderful music.
ReplyDeleteI also love to have an old LP of my late mother's playing at Christmas - we still have a working record desk on our system from 1989! - and it's by the wonderful singer Jessye Norman singing Christmas carols. She has the best soprano voice I have ever heard.
We will be going to get our Christmas Tree before too long but it won't come into the house until much later in the month - it will have a bit sawn off trunk and plunged into a bucket of water in the garage so it will get a good drink. And we will get a holly wreath for the front door. But that's it. No other deckies except a garland over the mirror over the mantelpiece and greenery and flowers which I will arrange on or close to Christmas Eve (and Christmas cards, of course.) People are decorating earlier and earlier, soon, they will be up before Hallowe'en, ha ha!
Margaret P
Marvellous! I was singing along with gusto!
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