Updates for 'Some Definite Service', a blog of oddments: poetry, music, churches, landscapes, traditions. Tweets by @FernandDouin
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Site for sore eyes: a pilgrimage to Wales and the shrine of St David’s mother
✍️Camilla Harrison
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We hope they have a most wonderful performance! 🧡🖤
Ruth Gipps' 5th Symphony is to be performed in London next Saturday (20th May). Neglected for forty years, it was recently revived by Adam Stern and the @seattlephil. This will be only its third performance ever.
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Ruth Gipps’ 5th & final symphony dates from 1982 & is dedicated to @WilliamWalton_. Scored for big forces - incl quadruple wind, 6 horns, 2 harps. It’s in 4 movements with the last subtitled ‘Mass for Orchestra’ & depicting 7 parts of the RC liturgy.
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Let us #PrayTogether for expectant women who will become mothers and who ask themselves: "What type of world will my child live in?". May the Lord give them the courage and confidence that it will certainly be a different world, but also one which the Lord will love tremendously.
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"It is music of such stunning quality that one can only ask, 'Why? Why did we not know this before.'" @seattlephil music director Adam Stern on programming Ruth Gipps symphonies. youtu.be/oZCw4NCrIGc via @YouTube
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40,000 gather for 'Jednego Serca Jednego Ducha', an enormous annual open-air hymn-singing concert in Poland...
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#JSJD #JednegoSercaJednegoDucha #NewEvangelisation #CatholicChurch
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Impressions from London's March for Life: some-definite-service.blogsp…
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Happy feast of Pentecost! A little ramble for Whitsuntide: some-definite-service.blogsp…
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A blogger from across the pond is talking up our upcoming concert (this Saturday at 2pm, Benaroya Hall). Dominic N writes specifically about his fellow Brit, Ruth Gipps, whose 2nd symphony we are bringing to the American concert stage for the first time.… ift.tt/2J6jpeg