What BOOK are you reading right now?

Yeah. . . writes for Harper's, "TV Essayist". . . he's very good. . . his essays are so multilayered. . . I read them like six or seven times apiece :-)

Matthew Dickie, Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman World. Routledge, 2001.

Hmm, I am an avid Harper's fan, but have missed reading some...

LOVE (Toni Morrison)...anythiing but a love story....

OLIVER TWIST (if you don't know...tsk tsk tsk)

re-reading the program from tonight's concert
looking things up on-line based on questions it raises for me.
the Toronto Consort is a bit, hmmmmm, academic.
their programs are like chapters from a textbook.
in tonight's case, a textbook about female composers of 11th - 14th century music.

Jealous!!!!!

They let females do that in the 11th Century?
Gee whillikins.

Pic of part of a famous girt group of 11th century



Early Women Composers

Well, ask a silly question...

Let's hear it for these early women! For without them, where would we be?

Without early women in general? You WOULDN'T be. . . :-)

I,personally, have never read "the Golden Notebook" seems everyone else has tho.. ... (guess ill have to see what the fuss is about) But right know i'm reading "Crazy in Alabama"

http://www.barsotti.com/book.html

It was supposed to be part of hamburger's Christmas present, but ...

hobitbob - it was an amazing concert. amazing. one soprano, one contralto, and three extremely talented multi-instrumentalists playing harpsichord/organ, lute/ theorbo/ medieval guitar and ud/ percussion/ and my favourite - the hurdy-gurdy!

There were some spine-tingling moments. The most modern music was that of Barbara Strozzi (1619 - c. 1664).

If you can find any music from the Monasterio de Santa Maria la Real de La Huelgas - why - go for it. From last night's program, "Towards the end of the 13th century, Abbess Maria Gonzalez de Aguero commissioned the copying of a huge manuscript containing much of the music sung by the nuns since the convent's founding. "Casta catholica" was probably sung at the time of the inititiation of new nuns, when the novice "married" Christ, while "Maria virgo virginum" is a conductus, a rhythmic piece often heard in procession.

As I wrote last night, the Consort's programs always lead to more reading.

Walter - thank you for that fine link on Women in Early Music. The Eleanor of Acquitaine link is sending me linking and linking and linking - and then probably off to the bookstore again!

Sounds like a great concert, Beth. . . jealous :-)

(Edited as requested by McTag)

Gustav,

I liked you better in your KKK outfit

Was this you, Piffka? Must get that book.

I just finished The Good Doctor. Forgot the author. He is South African, I thnk. Extraordinary.

I see you got back in, Kara!

Tonight I seem to be double posting, causing trouble wherever I go. Let's see if this one does it too.

Don't even ask how I got back in. Majorly fuming here. But I did not know how addicted I was to A2K until I was outed....