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Quibbles & Tea from Bagshot Row: May 2015
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Quibbles and Tea from Bagshot Row. Thursday, May 7, 2015. Do One Thing Every Day That Scares You. There is a quote attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt that reads, "Do one thing everyday that scares you.". I also received some hands-on experience starting a children's choir at my own parish where I serve as the music director. They haven't had the complacency of mediocrity or self-doubt instilled in them yet. One step closer to teaching sacred music to the future of the church! Links to this post. By focusing...
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Quibbles & Tea from Bagshot Row: August 2014
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Quibbles and Tea from Bagshot Row. Monday, August 11, 2014. Eternal Rest Grant Unto Him, O Lord: Robin Williams, 1951-2014. Robin Williams as John Keating, Dead Poets' Society, 1989. In honor of Robin Williams, I chose to read Walt Whitman’s “O Captain, My Captain” while listening to the second movement of Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto (featured in The Dead Poets’ Society. In the evening twilight. We shall always cherish your memory, Robin Williams, and we miss you dearly! Rise up and hear the bells;.
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Quibbles & Tea from Bagshot Row: December 2014
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Quibbles and Tea from Bagshot Row. Monday, December 29, 2014. Saint Thomas Becket, Murder in the Cathedral. Saint Thomas Becket, (21 Dec. c. 1118 (or 1120) - 29 Dec. 1170. St Thomas' martyrdom has been the subject of numerous literary and film adaptions. One of the most famous is T.S. Eliot's verse drama titled Murder in the Cathedral. Snow White and Rose Red by ejbeachy from Deviantart. I first came across Eliot's retelling via another retelling: the young adult novel The Shadow of the Bear. Foreshadowi...
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Quibbles & Tea from Bagshot Row: February 2014
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Quibbles and Tea from Bagshot Row. Monday, February 24, 2014. Popular vs. Classical Music : A Matter of Criteria. Originally written as a reflection on Start Making Sense! Musicology Wrestles with Rock. By Dr Susan McClary and Robert Walser. In this particular article, taken from a compilation of essays on popular music titled On Record: Rock, Pop, and the Written Word. Down the Abbey Road, The Beatles. Are all styles of music equal? Paul Scofield as St. Thomas More, 1966. Links to this post. The Calling...
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Quibbles & Tea from Bagshot Row: When you must change your life
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Quibbles and Tea from Bagshot Row. Tuesday, April 28, 2015. When you must change your life. Archaic Torso of Apollo" by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926). Torso of Apollo, Munich. ca 460 BC. We cannot know his legendary head. With eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso. Is still suffused with brilliance from inside,. Like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,. Pietro Canonica. The Abyss (detail). 1869. Labels: Archaic Torso of Apollo. You must change your life. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Quibbles & Tea from Bagshot Row: November 2014
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Quibbles and Tea from Bagshot Row. Tuesday, November 4, 2014. Artists, be Dominicans and Preach it! Who are the Dominicans? In 1216, St. Dominic de Guzman founded the Order of Preachers, otherwise known as the Dominicans. Although this new order was created in specific response to the Albigensian heresy - which denied the dignity of our humanity - it. Was also meant to fulfill the need for capable preachers formed in the teachings of the Catholic faith and able to combat doctrinal error in all its forms.
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Quibbles & Tea from Bagshot Row: April 2014
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Quibbles and Tea from Bagshot Row. Tuesday, April 29, 2014. It Is Not The Critic Who Counts. From a speech given at the Sorbonne in Paris on April 23, 1910. Links to this post. Saturday, April 19, 2014. Modern Sacred Music in the 20th Century (or What It Should Have Sounded Like), Part I: Duruflé and Pärt. Rouen Cathedral in France. The Last Judgement, Michelangelo. Detail. But is this what the Church intended for the art of the 20th century? What was modern sacred music supposed to sound like? From the ...
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Quibbles & Tea from Bagshot Row: January 2015
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Quibbles and Tea from Bagshot Row. Friday, January 16, 2015. Into the Woods is not a Morality Play. Over the holiday season, I went with a couple of friends to see the film adaption of Into the Woods. I first watched Sondheim's musical during my senior year of college via the video recording of the original production on Broadway, and I must admit, I did not like it the first time. I enjoyed the first half, but I was uncomfortable with the moral ambiguity of the second half. I think that Sondheim was try...
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Quibbles & Tea from Bagshot Row: What I'm Up To: February 2015
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Quibbles and Tea from Bagshot Row. Thursday, February 5, 2015. What I'm Up To: February 2015. The Grotto, Notre Dame University. And partly because I know I enjoy reading about the goings on of the blog authors I follow, so I hope you feel the same! Over winter break, I kept asking myself - why don't you want to go back? And I came up with three reasons:. 3) But I think the primary reason why I wanted to leave was because of my internship as a music director! I like all of my classes, and I am taking voi...
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