Comments on: Christmas Music (2)–Best Benjamin Britten A Ceremony of Carols http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2009/11/28/christmas-music-2-best-benjamin-britten-a-ceremony-of-carols/ Think. It ain't illegal yet... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:13:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: wufnik http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2009/11/28/christmas-music-2-best-benjamin-britten-a-ceremony-of-carols/comment-page-1/#comment-74861 wufnik Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:32:52 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=13240#comment-74861 Heh, two good pieces of info I wasn't aware of. Thanks! Will try to work some individual carols in, but this will mostly be genres. Strange genres, I admit. By the way, the new Alan Bennett play which s just opening in London is about Britten and Auden--we're seeing it in January. Will do a review! Heh, two good pieces of info I wasn’t aware of. Thanks! Will try to work some individual carols in, but this will mostly be genres. Strange genres, I admit.

By the way, the new Alan Bennett play which s just opening in London is about Britten and Auden–we’re seeing it in January. Will do a review!

]]> By: Jim Booth http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2009/11/28/christmas-music-2-best-benjamin-britten-a-ceremony-of-carols/comment-page-1/#comment-74855 Jim Booth Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:34:57 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=13240#comment-74855 Ah. "The Shepherd's Carol." Used it as part of a musical setting of "The Second Shepherd's Play" I did some years ago, Bob. From a fragment by W.H. Auden. I think the audience found it a little freaky.... Oh, and Dr. Johnson once said of Christopher Smart when he was being threatened with imprisonment in Bedlam for his religious mania which led him to fall upon his knees randomly in Hyde Park and begin praying loudly: "I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any man." :-) Ah. “The Shepherd’s Carol.” Used it as part of a musical setting of “The Second Shepherd’s Play” I did some years ago, Bob. From a fragment by W.H. Auden. I think the audience found it a little freaky….

Oh, and Dr. Johnson once said of Christopher Smart when he was being threatened with imprisonment in Bedlam for his religious mania which led him to fall upon his knees randomly in Hyde Park and begin praying loudly: “I’d as lief pray with Kit Smart as any man.” :-)

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