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Showing posts with label Professor John Took. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Professor John Took. Show all posts
Tuesday, 24 July 2018

Bach and Dante: hellish trials, heavenly light

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So while I reached the Empyrean with Dr Scafi and Professor Took at the Warburg, and got to the end of reading Paradiso shortly afterw...
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Sunday, 17 June 2018

Ever upwards with Bach and Dante

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You can see I'm in danger of being left behind on terra firma in both my big pursuits of the year, with four out of seven Bach cant...
Wednesday, 21 March 2018

Communal song and prayer in Dante's Purgatory

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'Cantavi tutti insieme con una voce' - 'they were all singing together with one voice'; 'Quest'ultima preghiera,...
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Saturday, 3 March 2018

Bach and Dante: darkest before the dawn

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Two Sundays ago I said farewell to meat with the last Bach cantata before Lent (during which time none was performed in Leipzig, though ...
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Friday, 9 February 2018

Flaming frauds and frivolous flibbertigibbets

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Forgive the excessive alliteration, but it seemed a neat way of conjoining this week's Dante and Bach discoveries. The latter is Ric...
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Friday, 2 February 2018

Magnificent severity from Bach and Dante

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This week's Monday lecture-reading at the Warburg with our Dante and Virgil (though it would be hard to say which was which), Dr. A...
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