Monday 3 December 2018

Monday

Good morning.  I'm a little late this morning because I waited until I got back home.  It's been another gentle weekend with Mum and Dad but it's always nice to get home again too.

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)



7 comments:

  1. I was so impressed that you had knitted the nativity crib--- what a lovely accomplishment. jean/winnipeg.

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  2. Thank you, Jean. It's a bit fiddly but once you get used to her style, it's not a complicated as it looks. :-)
    xx

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  3. 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.
    Margaret P
    www.margaretpowling.com

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  4. We went to a baroque performance of Messiah at our local Abbey on Saturday night. Truly marvellous start to Christmas.

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  5. Snap, Margaret! It is gorgeous, powerful, strong music and so loved.

    A Baroque performance sounds fantastic - hearing it closer to how audiences would have experienced it then.

    xx

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  6. 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.
    I 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

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  7. Marvellous! I was singing along with gusto!

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