On the evening of Saturday, 7 May, I will be one of the choristers singing in “A World of Song” - the Musica Viva choir’s spring concert - at St Brigid’s Church near the Byward Market. The main part of the concert will consist of the première performance for the World Music Suite No. Three by Canadian composer Donald Patriquin. The doors are open ( Read more... )

... that happens to reflect my current feelings (thanks to Sarah Slean):

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Hopeful Hearts
So we take the path not taken,
down into the fields of war;
Sword alone, the shield forsaken,
This, the right we're fighting for.
Hopeful hearts are moving targets,
I don't know how I survive;
we go out like birthday candles,
then, like suns we rise, we rise. ( Read more... )