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2 days ago · A splendid entertainment was provided in the hall, preceded by a grand concert of vocal and instrumental music, which was attended by people of the first rank. The special attraction was always an ode to Saint Cecilia, set by Purcell, Blow, or some other eminent composer of the day.
3 days ago · An elegy for a dying microbe explores what we really mean by ‘death’. Death comes in many forms. There’s the death of a vast multicellular system – which is to say, the variety that tends to preoccupy us most.
3 days ago · The volume is written in several hands, and William H. Cummings, a biographer of Purcell, has written on l.11: ""This curious book contains several pages undeniably in the handwriting of Henry Purcell..."". The other hands are attributed by Cummings to Pelham Humfrey (1647-1674), John Blow (1648-1708), and William Croft (1678-1727 ...
1 day ago · Drawing on his own Irish heritage (his paternal great-grandfather Danny McKenna left Waterford for South Africa in the 1890), Hope joins forces with artists including Sir James & Lady Jeanne Galway and folk band Lúnasa for a programme which features music by Ina Boyle, Geminiani, Purcell, O’Carolan and Roseingrave, plus new arrangements of folk-songs such as 'Molly Malone', 'Danny Boy ...
3 days ago · The year after her father’s death, Hilary wrote ‘October 1972’: My joy is a tribal joy / My loneliness is strong loneliness / and my sorrow / is pathways of flowers / leading to the river / where the taniwha moves / And the moreporks called / for a barefoot father / My father / disciple of the Māori Christ / I hear an old man singing / and there is sunlight in his hair ([1973] The Other ...
1 day ago · All the teams for Round 15 in the Smithy’s VFL. A host of big names come in and out of teams across the Smithy’s VFL as we enter the final third of the season. Box Hill Hawks will finally unveil Hawthorn’s father-son recruit Will McCabe as they aim to bounce back from a home loss last week ...
3 days ago · After 16 years of idleness, the gymnasium at St. James Corporate Campus will serve as the new home for “The Hall at St. James.” This new event venue will serve as a premiere event space, offering state-of-the-art projection technology to help immerse visitors for a variety of events.
