Showing posts with label Cathedral of The Isles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cathedral of The Isles. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 05, 2018

An icon evolves

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A couple of weeks ago, I went on an icon workshop. I spent four nights in one of my most familiar places, the Cathedral of The Isles on Cumb...
Friday, August 12, 2016

Hoolies I have known ...

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This startling photo was taken by Karen Brodie last Saturday as the participants in the Festal Evensong that had just celebrated 140 years...
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Friday, December 11, 2015

All we go down ...

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I was at a funeral yesterday, not as a mourner but as a provider of music, one of a quartet singing the Kontakion for the Departed at th...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

A very Pisky hoolie

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Choir at work Originally uploaded by goforchris . Other people have posted about last Saturday's lovely service in the Cathedr...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

An anniversary

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George Douglas, 1888-1973. It's a while since I first mentioned George James Cosmo Douglas, onetime Dean of the diocese of Argyll a...
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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Peirles Paramour...A journey into our past

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Fragment from text of document  I've been singing again. Back to where, in a way, it all began - and the time when the text on the ...
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Friday, July 06, 2012

Journey begins in bloggers meeting

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People who don't know about blogging still - after all these years - sneer at the idea. I'd rather meet people and have real conve...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Of plain chant, coal heavers and feathers...

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I've referred recently to singing plainsong  - though the singing of the example on this Wiki page wouldn't encourage anyone, I fear...
Saturday, April 16, 2011

Episcopal hoolie on Cumbrae

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Joyously random Originally uploaded by goforchris . Well, that was another wonderful Argyll and The Isles hoolie. And Bishop Kevin ha...
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Sunday, August 15, 2010

More forties

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Choir stalls Originally uploaded by goforchris . Another of those days when there seems to be a kink in time. I have sat in these choir s...
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Recollected in tranquillity

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I've spent the last two hours singing the most beautiful music, practising for a gig on Sunday when the St Maura Singers celebrate their...
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Monday, April 27, 2009

Mission accomplished

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We survived. Don't be fooled by the excellent, jolly cake, supplied by Black's of Dunoon - all the food was of the highest quality ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Cursillo weekend

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The car is packed. There is room for only two people, and the back seats are folded away. The curious might assume we were going on a campin...
Monday, October 20, 2008

Wind of the Spirit

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Almost time - Originally uploaded by goforchris . I need to blog about yesterday, between recovering and forgetting. Forgive a meander ...
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Saturday, July 12, 2008

A high old time

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The group photo Originally uploaded by goforchris . One of the joys of being a musician is that in the middle of ordinary life you can ...
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Thursday, March 20, 2008

Retreating

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Sunset on the cathedral Originally uploaded by goforchris . How do I convey the essence of ...
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Sunday, March 16, 2008

Time out

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Candles and stained glass Originally uploaded by goforchris . I'm about to vanish to the smallest cathedral in Europe again - the C...
Sunday, December 02, 2007

Advent

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Flashless Originally uploaded by goforchris . I rather like this picture, taken as the male voices of the ad hoc choir for Cumbrae'...
Saturday, September 29, 2007

Flying high

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Being someone's mother can be a real pain. Right now, thinking of Edublogger , Mrs E and Baby E travelling to New Zealand, I am acutely ...
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Thursday, April 05, 2007

Tallis and trembling.

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Candles and stained glass Originally uploaded by goforchris . Home again on a sunlit Maundy Thursday morning, I have time to reflect brie...