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Dido’s Lament – H Purcell (1659-95)

Dido’s Lament – H Purcell (1659-95)

This article was written for the March issue of our parish magazine.  You can read it again here: This powerful aria is the penultimate song in Purcell’s opera “Dido and Aeneas”. I discovered it one January morning. We were recently locked down for the third time, infection rates were out of control and UK daily death rates were higher than ever. A friend had posted a version of Dido’s Lament by…

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Jeff Buckley and the Secret Chord that pleased the Lord

Jeff Buckley and the Secret Chord that pleased the Lord

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There is some profoundly archetypal message in the lives and deaths of Tim and Jeff Buckley, father and son who never knew each other. They both sang with a heightened intense emotion, a poetry of song that transcends the usual. They both had the power to catalyse emotions in the audience; they were both magnetically alluring to those who came into their orbs. They both put…

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Henry Purcell: “Dido’s Lament” (When I am laid in Earth) from Dido and Aeneas

Henry Purcell: “Dido’s Lament” (When I am laid in Earth) from Dido and Aeneas

In 1975, I lived in the French House at Indiana University.  A few days ago, I wrote about one of my dorm mates, Mark Z.  After Mark, the role of most dramatic person in my dorm went to Cynthia C*. She came from a wealthy African-American family in Indianapolis, and her father was active in city government. Tall and statuesque, Cynthia towered above me, but her family raised her to be gracious…

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