And here is this years commissioned piece. It is trying very hard to be unique, but is succeeding only in being jarring. #9lc
My choir regularly sung Sir Christemas. The arguments that ensued over how to pronounce the Norman French were endless. #9lc
And another soloist pulls of a beautiful Wilcocks descant. #9lc
Oh One of my favorite carols "The Angle Gabriel" #9lc
I wish I could get American churches to sing O Little Town of Bethlehem to this tune. #9lc
Now this is more my preferred style! O Radiant Dawn #9lc
Another 12-tone setting for Jerusalem, Rejoice for Joy. I know that it is *en vogue* in academic music theory right now, but I'd like some more traditional harmonies. #9lc #crumudgen
Not *my* favorite setting of Adam Lay yBounden but well done. #9lc
Ok, this boy reading Genesis is doing better than 90% of the adults who read in most churches most Sundays. And he is reading from King James on top of it. #9lc
"And let us hold in our heart all those who, even as we gather here, endure the depredations and travails of war" #9lc
Ok so the Perfect Pitch Brigade are telling me that OIRDC was pitched down a half step. I can't tell. #9LC
And the chorister makes it through the solo of Once in Royal David's City. #9LC
Ok I've got the BBC up but what they are playing in the previous hour sounds like a dental drill in a war zone :(
“We do not protest the war on Gaza because we have an abstract right to do so; we protest it because it is one of the great moral atrocities of our lifetimes and because the widespread refusal to admit this in America is an atrocity in its own right.” https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/free-speech-debate-free-palestine.html
By 2030 it will take more than a day for communications from Voyager 2 to reach Earth. At its current speed it is gaining a light day every 27 years or so. It will take about 10,000 years for it to travel a single light year from earth. The nearest stars are six times as far.
I bought an expensive #EV in 2018. At the time, I calculated it would have taken almost 15 years to recoup the price differential to a similar #ICE (gas) #vehicle.
Days away from my car's 5th birthday, I ran the calculation again. Inflation adjusted (in all ways), I am only one year away from recouping that cost diff.
$35 a month in electricity to run my car. $18,000 saved in gas and maintenance in 6 years.
That is wild.
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