This is music that is collected around a theme or idea to display variety of interpretation or performance. Since my preference is for a cappella singing, much will be of this nature.
I recognized years ago that I had undertaken an asymmetric task in the search for truth. Someone can make a false statement, knowingly – a lie – or unknowingly – ignorance, that can be done in a minute or two. However, it can take me hours or days of research Read more…
You have undoubtedly heard by now, that there is an uptick in the number of COVID cases that may require another lockdown. Anthony Furey writing for True North says that the lockdown in Ontario has been planned for months (FUREY: Politicians threaten a second lockdown). However, using the data, we Read more…
In a personal anecdote, as an engineering student in the 1960’s I was required to take an arts course each of the first two years. One of these was a course in English literature. We were assigned a book to read and a 1500 word essay to write on a Read more…
This week I revised the article on masks adding more material on aerosol transmission and cloth masks: Disease Transmission and Masks. I also looked further into the upcoming throne speach and added a link to a Global News interview in which Trudeau mentions the new economy in context of the Read more…
Here’s an experiment on embedding a Vimeo instead of a YouTube video: You gotta love the Gutenberg editor in WordPress. It has a block as part of its block structure to embed Vimeo as well as a number of other media formats. It just makes the content provider’s life easier. Read more…
When I started sending out music links in emails it was to bring music to those from whom it has been taken by the state – namely churchgoers and choir members. Most of it has been a cappela singing which I have a passion for. Over time, I have become Read more…
Before I got my blog up I was sending these little pieces by email. The intent was to share music with people from which it has been taken by the state. I’m thinking of re-posting them with possible editing or additions. I’ll directly embed the videos also. The first is Read more…
A few years ago I was introduced to the flash mob concept with this 2010 performance of Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus. Apparently 53 million other viewers agrees that it is stirring performance. A friend sent the following to my wife. It’s a flash mob performance of the famous tenor aria from Read more…
In my last music post, Music for you – settings of the Ave Maria, I overlooked my favourite ‘Ave Maria’, the one by Franz Biebl. It has become a mainstay of the choral repertoire. I first heard it years ago performed by Chanticleer. Like most professional choirs the membership changes, Read more…
The text ‘Ave Maria’, has inspired composers throughout the ages. The two most well known classical settings were by Franz Schubert and the Bach/Gounod arrangement. Here is the Schubert setting sung by Maria Callas: And here is the Bach/Gounod ‘Ave Maria’ sung by Luciano Pavarotti and the Wandsworth School Boys Read more…