Sandwiched between adverts for Aubrey Allen Butchers, Alan’s Taxis and JW Superbuys I heard a lush wash of layered voices, a poem read over the top. The world’s great age begins anew, The golden years returnThe earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn: Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam Like… Keep Reading
Making of a Cultural Classic 277 years ago, a prodigious German composer resident in England and writing in Dublin wrote a work in two weeks’ white heat of inspiration Dublin which has gained something approaching immortality in the pantheon of Western Music. The man was Georg Friedrich Händel, and the work was The Messiah. Year after year,… Keep Reading
