tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post858834452145262515..comments2024-03-26T07:58:59.761+00:00Comments on I'll think of something later: Norfolk weekend: the thirteenth churchDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-54649975702157026522017-10-24T20:04:46.572+01:002017-10-24T20:04:46.572+01:00Thursday is mother's day, unfortunately - the ...Thursday is mother's day, unfortunately - the once-a-month visit. I hope to make the tenors, though - and I've circulated your flyer to my round-robin list of students.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-52145571108087341202017-10-23T14:52:18.389+01:002017-10-23T14:52:18.389+01:00If you're in striking distance of Mayfair on T...If you're in striking distance of Mayfair on Thursday lunchtime to try to come to hear Rachel Ambrose Evans at the Music Room at Grays - said to be the next Emma Kirkby. You'll meet the current one too, as she intends to be in the audience. Failing that, Mark Bonney on 9 November is another voice to listen out for. A wonderful high tenor from San Francisco, he sang the title role in Handel's Jephtha at Iford this summer and again in a spellbinding concert performance in Bath on Friday.Andrew van der Beekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08875140850458715235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-46305253750591803402017-10-22T23:14:30.722+01:002017-10-22T23:14:30.722+01:00Small world, Andrew - admittedly the musical one o...Small world, Andrew - admittedly the musical one often connects, but this really is in the middle of nowhere. Less surprising is the artistic connection. And yes, thank you, it really must be a Hodgkin. Obvious, really.<br /><br />Last Tuesday at the launch of J's latest Ten Years book, Nick Sargent gave us a print of Lacock Abbey, remembering the very happy 50th birthday bash.<br /><br />Hope we can come to your next event; and see you before that, maybe, depending on what arises first.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-56923603591144514572017-10-22T19:12:14.551+01:002017-10-22T19:12:14.551+01:00What a shame we didn't know you were going the...What a shame we didn't know you were going there. Our friend Gavin Turner, conductor of The William Byrd Choir (active in London in the seventies and eighties, has an apartment in the house. He puts on an annual choral evensong in the Adam chapel with former members of the choir, including people like Michael Chance. He wasn't in residence the last time we were there, but we were with a friend of Michael Parkin, whom we met, though failed to buy the illustrations he was trying to shift. I forget what they were, but I daresay Deborah will remember. Your 'Hodgkin' is very similar to Hodgkin's 'Surf', mentioned by another bloggard here: http://tomatoesfromcanada.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/aga-khan-museum-toronto.html.<br />Andrew van der Beekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08875140850458715235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-13514957229685739982017-10-22T12:11:01.413+01:002017-10-22T12:11:01.413+01:00Yes, Sheringham is just along the coast from Crome...Yes, Sheringham is just along the coast from Cromer, and Sheringham Park - as you will have noted from a pre-churches-walk entry - would be a constant delight, one of the most extraordinary stretches of near-coast and coastline. Another plus would be visits from you, though I don't know how far into the future we're talking - would be good to keep a one-bedroom pied-a-terre in London. <br /><br />One main reason why I'd like to spend longer in a little patch of country is reading more superb nature-writing, and what is so far the greatest of them all in my experience, J A Baker's The Peregrine. He lived his entire life in Chelmsford and his walks took him along the Blackwater Estuary and yet, as he wrote, he tried to convey the wonder 'of a land...to me as profuse and glorious as Africa' (OK, Africa's a continent, but you get the point). Nearly finished, reeling.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-89322106935425798942017-10-21T18:45:56.169+01:002017-10-21T18:45:56.169+01:00I'm intrigued that Southrepps remains "on...I'm intrigued that Southrepps remains "on the cards" for you both for future. As I think I've mentioned, J's brother lives in Sheringham, and of course Jackie & Gill have a house in Kelling (don't know distances, but J says Sheringham, at least, is not far from Southrepps). Anyway, the church seems very appealing as a concert space. (And I'm with you that the painting you'd like to take home looks like a Hodgkin.)Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15674930917585246294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-5325345792355182642017-10-20T10:31:49.348+01:002017-10-20T10:31:49.348+01:00Very good point. And that would also imply that th...Very good point. And that would also imply that the classical celebrates man too - the Greeks and Romans.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-82936626576549098212017-10-20T06:08:02.755+01:002017-10-20T06:08:02.755+01:00What a beautiful building. But looking at your pic...What a beautiful building. But looking at your pictures of it, and comparing this architecture with the ancient churches on your walks, I can understand why the Victorians took the view that Gothic was the Christian architecture. There is in the Georgian / Palladian approach the confidence of the Renaissance, that in Alberti's words, Man is the Master of all things. Also the Gothic actually points to the skyDavid Damantnoreply@blogger.com