There’s a certain irony to seeing someone who has worked against themselves so successfully that, having arrived at their great goal in life, they find they can’t practice their beloved trade anymore because they have to work at other things all the time to support their new successful status. That’s the politician for you. It’s […]
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Last week, exploring the chance to see some medieval art in Washington DC this winter, I wrote about Anonymous 4 and the Folger Consort at the National Cathedral, and rounded it out with a mention of the Anglo-Saxon Staffordshire Hoard at the National Geographic’s Explorer’s Hall. You can find that post here. But there’s more, […]
Anonymous 4 and the Folger Consort appeared at the Washington National Cathedral last Friday night performing some of the sacred songs of 12th century mystic Hildegard von Bingen (and some 13th century French court music for variety) in a program they call Heavenly Revelations, and altogether it was a solid evening of twelfth-century Christian mystical […]
Would you go out of your way to get yourself castaway on a desert island? Because if you’re a writer, that’s what you’ve done. You’ve rowed out into the middle of the sea all by yourself, found a little island, rowed ashore, and got out onto the sand. The only thing you brought with you […]
