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To: AnAmericanMother

Thank you!

(Put me on your ping list. :-)


4 posted on 05/25/2012 5:01:03 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: MV=PY
LOL! I haven't got an "English Renaissance music ping list" - and if I did it might be just the three of us. :-D

But I'll make a note . . . .

Mr. Weelkes, by the way, was something of a character. He had a bit of a drinking problem and he was a very rowdy drunk. Got in trouble with the chapter (no kidding) for passing water on the Dean of Chichester from the organ loft during Evensong . . . eventually they detailed somebody to make sure he showed up for services clean and sober (and, presumably, dehydrated).

But they never, ever fired him because his music was just too wonderful. Unfortunately he died young, probably of the D.T.s, but he still produced an amazing body of music.

Alleluia - I heard a voice (Rev.14:2)

As a minister in the audience shouted when Susannah Cibber sang "He was despised" in the premiere of the Messiah, "For that, thy sins are forgiven thee!"

6 posted on 05/25/2012 5:48:48 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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