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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Opera and Kansas: Maria Stuarda at the Met

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Joyce DiDonato is a Kansas native (Prairie Village, Kansas) and graduate of my alma mater, Wichita State University (like Samuel Ramey!). Sh...
Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Adventure and Kansas: A Book Review

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I was born and have grown up in Kansas and my father was born and raised in southeastern Kansas; therefore I have often been in the Chanut...
Monday, January 7, 2013

Katherine of Aragon and Peterborough Cathedral

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In the months before the death of Katherine of Aragon on January 7, 1536, both she and Mary her daughter had been very ill. They were both...
Sunday, January 6, 2013

Twelfth Night and the Feast of Epiphany

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From another British writer of Christmas Carols, William Chatterton Dix (1836-1898): As with gladness, men of old Did the guiding star b...
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Saturday, January 5, 2013

Good news from the Ordinariate in England!

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The Ordinariate now has a parish in London: Our Lady of the Assumption and Saint Gregory, Warwick Street, according to this news release : ...
Friday, January 4, 2013

William Roper, RIP

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St. Thomas More's son-in-law and biographer William Roper died on January 4, 1578. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia : Biograph...
Thursday, January 3, 2013

More Music from the Tudor Era--and Beyond!

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I just can't keep up with all the groups exploring and performing the music of the Tudor era! It seems that every new release I find exe...
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Mary Ward in York and the Bar Convent

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Mary Ward was born and died in January (23 January 1585-30 January 1645) and if one were travelling to York and had any interest in her lif...
Tuesday, January 1, 2013

January 1, 2013: Here We Come A-Wassailing!

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Here we come a-wassailing Among the leaves so green; Here we come a-wand'ring So fair to be seen. Love and joy come to you, And to...
Monday, December 31, 2012

"In the Ending of the Year"~~December 31, 2012

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John Mason Neale included this translation of the medieval hymn, In hoc anni circuli in his 1853 Carols for Christmas-tide : In the en...