Brendan O’Grady
@reading_ulysses
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Books📚and Words;Trees🌳; Classical Music 🎶; Volunteer at very higgledy-piggledy Historic ⛪️🏴🇬🇧🇳🇱🇵🇱🇺🇦.
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Joined November 2022
Acorn, Raindrops and Spider. Back home 🏴, dawdling around my beautiful Askham Bog.
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The Flute's 🪈 Pleasure Garden. By the time I had reached Fantasia and Echo, I was hooked. Dutch music from the 17th century.
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A little down at heel on the outside, this former C17 townhouse on is now a small conference venue. Bring your own alcohol. #AdoorableThursday Micklegate, York.
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The Church of All Saints, Saxton nestling snugly into a hollow. A lovely day, turning one's mind to the glory of Spring, "...when the Father loosens the bonds of frost❄️, unwinds the water's chains⛓️..." From Beowulf, as quoted in Winters in the World @ClerkofOxford
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Wandering the Winsome Winding Woodland Way. #thicktrunktuesday I'm reading too much alliterative poetry. No, that's not possible🙂!
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Something a little more obscure from the canon of Sergei Rachmaninov this afternoon.
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Performing a requiem like this, to a live audience, must be a very special moment for musicians and singers. I've just played it, and it's beautiful.
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To accompany this morning's domestic laundry duty I am playing @larpeggiata and Monteverdi. Such joyful harmonies, wonderful playing, and the voice of Nuria Rial is completely bewitching. I'm going to find something else to wash, and play it again☺️.
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In het koorhek van de St Bavo in Haarlem heeft houtsnijder Steven rond 1517 twee pilaarbijters gesneden. Pilaarbijters bijten zich letterlijk vast in het geloof. Ze staan symbool voor de schijnheiligheid en hypocrisie van sommige kerkgangers.
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🇮🇹 The speech that all of Italy heard. And that the world must hear. In a country that will host the Olympic Games, Italian Senator and Vice President of the Human Rights Commission Filippo Sensi took the floor and said what should have been said out loud long ago. He called it a
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I read one of his short stories last week.
R.I.P. Cees Nooteboom Hij was er altijd, met zijn fijnmazig geschreven droomreizen. Dit was mijn eerste.
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Early morning with Gustav Mahler and Otto Klemperer 🤭; Am I the emperor of Austria-Hungary?🫣
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St. Mary's Church, Lead, Saxton, North Yorkshire. Standing adjacent to Towton battlefield and within a stone's throw of the Cock Beck, coming into flood today as it had on that fateful day in 1461.
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Support your local bookshops. Even the chains.
This was Watersones bookshop Oxford. Stuffed with thousands of books until it shut down last month. What a sad sight.
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A quick roundup of some other recent music. I've been playing a lot of early music, especially Harpsichord, and including Schubert's piece for the Arpeggione, played by Martin Zeller, a couple of Claudio Abbado Mozart symphonies, and Bach's Cantata 161.
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A beautiful picture 📸 of Snowdrops.
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Playing this one act opera, The Miserly Knight. Libretto is all male, lacking the harmony of the female voice. But, hey!, the music is Rachmaninov. What can go wrong?
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The devil is forced to carry the saint's missal. St. Martin le Grand, Coney St. York. #stainedglasssunday
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