Wintery music & art

An Angel Playing a Flageolet by Edward Burne Jones

Music memory: for the holidays, training to sing a difficult piece, and the choir director was so, so happy we pulled it off. Right now I especially remember "Sicut erat."


University of Kentucky's choir: "Sicut erat" by Porpora
From Magnificat (not the one by Bach!)

"Porpora, who collaborated with J.S. Bach’s youngest son, Johann Christian Bach in England, wrote his 'Magnificat' for the famous all-girl choirs of the Venice “ospedali” — charitable orphanage-conservatories that provided musical training for orphaned, abandoned and illegitimate children of the city. The four ospedalis in Venice attracted many of Europe’s greatest composers of the time." 

~ Magnificent Magnificat...

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From a Nativity scene by Taddeo Gaddi

"The Greek word Luke uses for virgin is an unusual one, a very specific word that means she has not yet born a child. Its precise meaning does not indicate sexual innocence."

~ http://www.patheos.com/blogs/biteintheapple/no-more-lying-about-mary/