Seraphim Singers- final concert of the season

Please come see us, I’m a soloist this time!

~Kelly

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Join us for our inspirational final concert of the season.

Persecution, Transformation, and Triumph
Jennifer Lester, conductor
Sunday, April 21, 2013  3:00pm
1545 Tremont St.
Mission Hill, Boston

Sunday, April 28, 2013  3:00pm
First Parish (Unitarian Universalist)
75 Great Road
Bedford, MA

Tickets (available at the door): $20 general admission /$15 for students & seniors

Music composed in times of oppression and persecution often possesses a singular resilience that inspires and gives witness to the courageous dimension of the human spirit. In this concert The Seraphim Singers present choral and instrumental works composed under conditions of religious persecution in Renaissance England, slavery in 18th and 19th century America, the Holocaust during World War II, and totalitarianism in the Soviet era. Featuring:

Poulenc: Un soir de neige
Tippett: Selections from A Child of Our TIme
Messiaen: Selections from Quatuor pour la fin du temps and choral works by Shostakovich, Penderecki, Stanhope, Zuckerman, Goudimel, Sweelinck, and Tallis

Visit www.seraphimsingers.org for more information.

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What I’ve been reading lately

While both Geoff and I have spent a ton of time at work lately (this is my first day off in 11 days I think) I’m in the middle of a fascinating book and I’ve been emailed some really fascinating blog links.  Now it’s my turn to share them with you.

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Easter photos

Easter is a special time of year at King’s Chapel, as it is the only time that the stained glass window is visible.  So Saturday night I opened up the shutters, and then Easter morning I got a picture when the morning sun was shining through it.

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The window dates from 1863, so not as old as the building itself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I took some pictures of all the Easter flowers too.  You can see them below the cut.

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Because commuting in Boston isn’t fun enough…

Tonight it took two hours, a bus, and a taxi to get me from my front door to Mission church where I was singing a Holy Thursday Service (that’s Maundy Thursday to you non-Catholics out there).  Normally it’s a 45 minute trip at most.  Now things are about to get worse.

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Bulletins from the animal kingdom

Easter is almost upon us and that means a couple of things: spring is coming (no, really, it is, promise!), Geoff and I will be *really* busy this weekend, people will be doing stupid and ill advised things like getting their kids bunnies, chicks, and ducklings for their baskets on Sunday morning, and the annual seal skin kill is going on in Canada.

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Sorry for the radio silence

I realized today that we haven’t posted here since the end of February.  We’re going to try to not let that happen again.  Sometimes life just gets in the way.

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Come see me! SLAM St.Patrick’s Local Artist Market – Saturday March 16th

Hi folks!  It’s that time again.  I have a show locally on St. Patrick’s Day weekend.  Come see me on Saturday when I’m selling my jewelry and come see me on Sunday when I sing.  More details below the cut.  C’mon, click, you know you want to.

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The Seraphim Singers Have Rescheduled

Despite the best attempts of Old Man Winter, The Seraphim Singers have rescheduled our Russian music concert originally scheduled for 2/10 and 2/17.

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There be WHALES here!

Or at least dolphins. Cetaceans of some kind for sure.

Yeah, I love me some whales.  Cetaceans of any kind, really, because porpoises and dolphins are also pretty cool.  On the rare occasions that I get out on the water, especially someplace like the Stellwagen Bank, I usually see at least a few.  Nothing spectacular, but still pretty cool to see stuff in the wild.  But I have never in my life seen anything like this mega-pod of dolphins spotted near San Diego.  It stretched across seven miles of ocean.  They think there may have been as many as 100,000 altogether.  Can you imagine?

Makes me want to go whale watching.  Or fishing.  Or both.  Just to be out on the water.

-Geoff