The title refers to Sir David Willcocks, director of music
at King's College, Cambridge, 1957-1974, who reportedly
died today.
The word:
Related music:
A Christmas Carol.
Thursday, September 17, 2015
A Word for Willcocks
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Saturday, September 12, 2015
Ledger
Lorrie Moore, in the current New York Review of Books ,
on a detective in a TV series:
He "takes notes in a large ledger and
speaks as if he were the CEO of
a nihilist fortune cookie company."
— "Sympathy for the Devil," NYRB
issue dated Sept. 24, 2015
See Harvard president Drew Faust as such a CEO.
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UPDATED: September 12, 2015, at 4:22 pm.
Luke Z. Tang ’18, a Lowell House sophomore,
Local authorities are investigating the cause |
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012
The Particulars of Language
This post is in memory of an English church musician whose
death was noted here yesterday evening in a post titled
"The Particulars of Rapture," a phrase from Wallace Stevens.
Sir Philip Ledger, who died on Sunday, was a
"church musician who produced magical settings
of carols," according to The Telegraph RSS feed.
It is not clear what the Telegraph meant by "magical settings."
Perhaps the phrase "his settings of carols" in his obituary refers
to the annual service of Nine Lessons and Carols at Cambridge,
where he was for a time director of music at King's College.
If so, the settings would be the Lessons, readings from the Bible
(a "ledger," in the sense defined below). Such readings should
not be confused with notions from the world of Harry Potter.
Examples: The Lessons from last Christmas in Cambridge.
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Monday, November 19, 2012
The Particulars of Rapture
"And forth the particulars of rapture come."
— Wallace Stevens, "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction,"
Canto IV of "It Must Change," quoted here yesterday.
A death yesterday: Sir Philip Ledger.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Wednesday July 11, 2007
… And One More
for the Road
cartoonist and author
of Magic Time.
for the Road
In memory of Doug Marlette,
cartoonist and author
of Magic Time.
Marlette died in a highway
accident yesterday at about
10 AM CT. He was
"on his way to Oxford
[Mississippi]… to help a
troupe of high school students
put on a play based on
his nationally syndicated
comic strip, Kudzu."
— Chris Joyner,
Clarion-Ledger,
Jackson, Mississippi
Log24 yesterday,
7:59 AM ET:
Mary Karr,
"Facing Altars:
Poetry and Prayer"–
"There is a body
on the cross
in my church."
"I started kneeling to pray morning and night– spitefully at first, in a bitter pout. The truth is, I still fancied the idea that glugging down Jack Daniels would stay my turmoil, but doing so had resulted in my car hurtling into stuff." —Mary Karr
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