Showing posts with label k1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label k1. Show all posts
Monday, December 26, 2016

For The Season #9: "Good King Wenceslas"

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One of the ongoing pleasures of the holiday season for me is revisiting Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol , first in its original fo...
Friday, December 25, 2015

For The Season #8: "The Cherry Tree Carol"

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One of the most charmingly poignant of all English Christmas carols is also one of the oldest, a fitting companion in both its age and it...
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Thursday, December 25, 2014

For The Season #7: "The Coventry Carol/Lully, Lullay Thou Little Tiny Child"

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(L -  François-Joseph Navez, 'The Massacre of the Innocents,' 1824) The seasonal celebrations that occur around the winter solsti...
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Friday, January 31, 2014

In Honor Of Pete Seeger: "Guantanamera"

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The best picture of Pete Seeger is any one like this one: a tall, spare figure - so tall and so spare that his famous 25-fret long-necked...
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Monday, December 23, 2013

For The Season #6* :"The Bitter Withy/Mary Mild"

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The picture to the left is a detail from a 14th century mural found in an abandoned Orthodox Christian  monastery in Ethopia. The scene d...
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Friday, November 22, 2013

JFK 50 Years Later: Songs Of November 22, 1963

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"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly, than ever before. And with each...
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Monday, October 21, 2013

Down By The Mission "San Miguel"

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One of the sidelights of the American folk revival (from roughly 1930 through about 1970) was the creation of hundreds and then thousands...
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