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Quiz #26: Let’s Start At The Very Beginning
Something a little more contemplative for this week’s adventure. There is something about hearing sacred music in a church and in the proper liturgical context that is unlike any other musical experience.
There have been some concert hall events that have certainly reached the spirit but nothing quite like this. [...]
October 06, 2008 | Miss Mussel | Comments 0
For Instance, The Choir Need Neither Receive Or Deserve A Flogging
Sir Donald on performance practice
The conditions under which poor Bach worked were neither metropolitan nor otherwise oputlent. He furnished his church cantatas week by week, as the parson furnished his Sunday sermon; and a trustworthy tradition tells us that the performances were generally atrocious and that a subsequent flogging for the ringleaders of the [...]
January 17, 2008 | Miss Mussel | Comments 0
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