Coláiste Lurgan (Lurgan College) is an Irish-language summer school in Connemara; it has a musical project called TG Lurgan which does lots of brilliant translated covers. Here are a couple, worth watching even if you have little or no Irish 'cause they're obviously having such a good time with it!
( videos )

Happy Christmas and happy Hanukkah (they coincide this year)! This is not especially festive except that I was reminded of it at Midnight Mass while counting verses of a rather long litany.

When I was a teenager, I invented what as far as I know is an original method of finger-counting; at least I was unaware of having based it on anything else ( Read more... )

For Christmas Eve, ghoti asked me to talk about my favourite carol.

( Noël, Noël )

pentamer asked me to write about music. I briefly covered this in my post on art earlier in the month, but let's expand on that a bit.

( do re mi )

ghoti, Benedict, and I have just got back from Spode Music Week, our first in its new home. We had a wonderful time although I at least am pretty tired, and ghoti is sleeping so I assume she is too ...

The course music was, on the choral side:

• Britten: Hymn to St. Cecilia
• Brahms: Fest- und Gedenksprüche
• Tallis: Puer natus est nobis (Mass setting)
• Davy: ( Read more... )