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Village of Dent, the Lake District, Cumbria, UK

Aelvi Cem ritual

3m and 24s into this clip from a BBC series on religion is a song of the Aelvi Cem ritual. I think it's fantastic. Could anyone tell me more about it and is there any way it might be possible to get a version by these particular performers?

Anyone know?

Turkish Alevi – Cem ritual.mp4

This is a clip from 'Around the world in 80 faiths' that I found inspiring – as I also use d

Tractors in Nebraska

The (National Treasure) Sir David Attenborough is on Desert Island Disks and he's chosen And the Glory of the Lord from The Messiah performed by Neville Marriner & the Chorus of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.

My favorite bit, I suppose, has to be For Unto Us A Child Is Born, because I once sang it on stage…not quite as well as this.

Messiah – Handel ( 2 )

Some of my preferred parts of " Messiah ' – Handel ( 2 )
Sylvia McNair, Anne Sofie von Ott

Rattlesnakes, South Dakota

Helen's returned from Oxford with a bench from her old college's refectory. Seems they're refurbishing and some bright spark saw a way to make money from their alumni. And she fell for it.

It remains a puzzle why the intelligent left have never succeeded in producing or nurturing a thoughtful and balanced newspaper to rival those on the right. Perhaps it is an delusion, like expecting a cyclist will win the Epsom Derby.

The Guardian envisaging a digital-only existence

Cars, Southgate Street

Erster Verlust / Ian Bostridge

When still at school, Ian Bostridge corresponded with Sir Roger Penrose, then the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at Oxford, about a unified theory of gravity and electromagnetism. Growing tired of theoretical physics, Ian studied history at Oxford and Cambridge, getting a First, an MPhil and a DPhil for ground-breaking research into witchcraft in the 17th-18th Centuries. For a while he was a post-doctoral Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Then he became a professional singer, and an extraordinary one at that. I've already posted his stunning version of Der Leiermann from Schubert's Winterreise

https://plus.google.com/113934106958219608468/posts/Z9jDxxLhVbt

and here below is some more Schubert, Erster Verlust. Words by Goethe, music by the finest songwriter ever

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Schubert/Goethe – Erster Verlust D.226 (Bostridge/Drake).

Ach, wer bringt die schönen Tage,
Jene Tage der ersten Liebe,
Ach, wer bringt nur eine Stunde
Jener