Showing posts with label Ralph Vaughan Williams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ralph Vaughan Williams. Show all posts
Friday, June 5, 2026

"I know that my Redeemer lives..."

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In 1988, I gave my pastor, Rev. Kevin Butler, a sealed envelope containing my "Funeral and Burial Instructions." Recently, his wif...
Thursday, September 12, 2024

"Kind folks of old, you come again no more"

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A recent exchange about nostalgia reminded me of this: Home no more home to me, whither must I wander? by Robert Louis Stevenson ...
Saturday, September 7, 2024

"Be our strength..."

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1 Father, hear the prayer we offer:     not for ease that prayer shall be, but for strength that we may ever live our lives cou...
Wednesday, August 28, 2024

A peaceful interlude

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Wednesday, November 1, 2023

All Saints'

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A hymn most appropriate for All Saints' Day sung to Ralph Vaughan Williams's SINE NOMINE  ("without name"): For al...
Monday, January 30, 2023

“I am this dark world’s light..."

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Jonathan Aigner, at his blog Ponder Anew, has been posting a "Hymn of the Day" series. Today the s election is "I Heard the V...
Monday, September 19, 2022

Blest is the man...

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Last night I pulled an all-nighter in order to watch Queen Elizabeth's funeral. I am now badly in need of a nap but staying up was worth...
Thursday, September 8, 2022

"We shall not look upon her like again"

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Elizabeth II is dead at age 96. Alan Jacobs in "God Save the Queen" : The late Queen Elizabeth II played the hand she was dealt ab...
Sunday, June 19, 2022

"The embrace of incomprehensibility"

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I had the good fortune to grow up among a group of friends who knew a lot about and enjoyed classical music. One, an organist, one a counter...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

Have mercy upon us

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This was my introduction to Ralph Vaughan Williams. I heard it first in the living room of the Rood family in Milton, Wisconsin in the early...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Respectability

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On the anniversary of Roger Scruton's death in 2020, Patrick Kurp : In England: An Elegy (2001), Sir Roger Scruton aligns himself with ...
Tuesday, January 4, 2022

"I am this dark world's light"

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Posted before, a perfect performance of a great hymn with music by Ralph Vaughan Williams: "I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say" ...
Tuesday, December 7, 2021

True saving faith

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Re-posted : Ralph Vaughan Williams, "Herefordshire Carol," Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge: This is the trut...
Thursday, December 24, 2020

Hearken all!

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Ralph Vaughan Williams, "Herefordshire Carol," Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge: This is the truth sent from ab...
Sunday, December 6, 2020

Prelude on Three Welsh Hymn Tunes

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Sunday, November 1, 2020

"For all the saints..."

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A hymn most appropriate for All Saints' Day sung to Ralph Vaughan Williams's SINE NOMINE ("without name"), perhaps refer...
Sunday, July 12, 2020

And all the trumpets sounded for him

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After this it was noised abroad That Mr Valiant for Truth Was taken with a summons And had this for a token that the summons was ...
Saturday, April 4, 2020

Lord have mercy

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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Mass in G Minor , About 25 minutes.
Thursday, March 19, 2020

"Come unto me and rest"

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Jonathan Aigner, is doing a series of blog posts about "Hymns of Hope and Comfort," today : "I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say....
Sunday, March 8, 2020

The Lord is my Shepherd

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The King of love my Shepherd is, Whose goodness faileth never; I nothing lack if I am His And He is mine for ever. In death...