Sunday, October 26, 2014

A little night music... the Liberal connection

I did promise one more go at Psalm 122, and whilst Purcell was all well and good, Edwardian England required something a bit bolder, a bit more splendid. And Hubert Parry was just the man to produce it...


You may recognise a few of the flourishes that appear in his perhaps more famous work, the setting of William Blake's "Jerusalem".

I suppose that, in a properly diverse world, it will never be sung at Federal Conference again, which to the mind of someone who looks back with some nostalgia at the old Liberal Party, is a pity, as it does stir the blood...

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