Remembering the dead

[gurnemanz]

For my Sunday morning listening I picked off the shelf somewhat at random a disc from the EMI Holst box: a setting of Psalm 86 with Ian Partridge in good form, A Choral Fantasia with Janet Baker as soloist, followed by military band suites.

Not a CD I have listened to more than once, I think, and checking out the Robert Bridges text for the Fantasia, I discovered it starts with some words appropriate for today:

Rejoice, ye dead, where'er your spirits dwell
Rejoice that yet on earth your fame is bright,
And that your names, remember'd day and night,
Live on the lips of those who love you well.

[Pulcinella]

A good choice, lined up for later (partner about to join Zoom Quaker meeting, so not really appropriate to have on even in another room!).
The EMI Collector's Edition does not include the text (indeed the booklet says very little about the piece), but I have it in another incarnation (coupled with RVW's Five mystical songs and Finzi's Dies natalis) which does, together with notes on the piece by his daughter Imogen.

[french frank]

I have a ticket for a streamed-not-cancelled Remembrance Sunday concert in St George's Bristol:

https://www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/event/exultate-singers-songs-of-hope/

[Serial_Apologist]

I have a ticket for a streamed-not-cancelled Remembrance Sunday concert in St George's Bristol:

https://www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/e...songs-of-hope/

I attended many concerts and jazz gigs at St George's while resident in Bristol. Acoustics there as good as anywhere as far as I was concerned. OT, I actually coined an exclamation out of the street name off which it is located - "Great George Street!" - to sort-of go with similar expressions, like "Great Scott!"

[french frank]

I attended many concerts and jazz gigs at St George's while resident in Bristol. Acoustics there as good as anywhere as far as I was concerned. OT, I actually coined an exclamation out of the street name off which it is located - "Great George Street!" - to sort-of go with similar expressions, like "Great Scott!"

Just to remind you of the old place (the singers all wore masks) and it was filmed last Sunday. Ah, yes, Great George Street - our one-term independent mayor, the red-trousered George F, set up his architect office on Gt Geo St. While you were at it, you might have also coined "Great George clangs! the eponymous George being the bell in the nearby university tower - he even appears to have a Twitter account.
Bong! as eighth would say:

[kernelbogey]

World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. An estimated total of 70–85 million people perished, or about 3% of the 1940 world population (est. 2.3 billion).

[Wikipedia]

We tend to overlook, in this country, the sacrifice of the Soviet Union: 20 - 27 mllion.