Lost Innocence?-Let’s not misread the moment
Posted on Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!.. Fear not each sudden sound and shock, Tis of the wave and not the rock; Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale! In spite of rock and tempest s roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It used to be that every time something big and unpleasant happened to America – Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, the JFK assassination, Watergate, 9/11 – there would ensue a spate of articles about how America had finally lost its innocence. This year’s apparently successful election fraud, too, feels like one of those occasions.
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Jim Heffernan column: For whom the holiday bells toll
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An Advent calendar for listening pleasure
BLUE HILL To celebrate the holiday season, Blue Hill Bach has created an online “Advent calendar” for music lovers’ listening pleasure, Dec. 1-25.
Collaborating with the Zenith Ensemble, Blue Hill Bach is offering daily a rich variety of seasonal treats from introductions to the northern New England choir’s individual singers to famed folk singer Noel Paul Stookey’s reading of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1863 poem “Christmas Bells,” which later became a beloved Christmas carol.
Blue Hill Bach’s free Holiday Advent Calendar introduces the audience to the Zenith Ensemble’s singers, who share reflections about holiday music. They include sopranos Nacole Palmer and Michele Kennedy, alto Melissa Attebury, tenor Eric Christopher Perry, baritone Charles Wesley Evans and bass John David Adams. Daily posts also include celebrations of the first and last days of Hanukkah and the winter solstice. The choir, which includes s