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Yes, I was there too - it was excellent. Struggling however to identify the Chris Beach connection!

The post was, as I fully expected, flagged by a moderator. It has now been reinstated. At the moment we're not allowed to edit our old posts, so I've not been able to correct my dittographic 'tried' - apologies.

Although I myself am still only on the remotest verge of middle age, I hope it won't be too long before I' m invited to have a Covid vaccination. Does anyone know whether the over-80s who are, like me, registered with the Wells Park practice have been invited to be vaccinated, and, if so, where? Jen...

A relic from the days when we used to think it was OK to objectify women's bodies.

Hear hear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggm0SZCWKZo Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage, Rühmet, was heute der Höchste getan! Lasset das Zagen, verbannet die Klage, Stimmet voll Jauchzen und Fröhlichkeit an! Dienet dem Höchsten mit herrlichen Chören, Laßt uns den Namen des Herrschers verehren! Cele...

Well, it's the big day tomorrow! Your votes for the final piece of music in this sequence have been pouring in. Lots of excitement on social media - ignore it, it's just speculation! You'll have to wait and see! Meanwhile here is the chorus from 'Messiah' that choirs dread - all those fast runs! htt...

Here is the other great 16th century setting of 'O magnum mysterium', by Byrd. Interesting to see it performed with instruments. A French ensemble singing an English masterpiece - bugger Brexit, you may feel.

Here's a rather more extrovert setting of 'Hodie Christus natus est.'

Here's something a bit lighter, a bit of "pop"which I'm sure you "kids" will enjoy! Ask your "mums" and "dads" whether they remember it!

Something appropriate for the last Sunday in Advent: 'Mary said to the Angel, behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord,let it be done to me, according to your word.'

Hodie Christus natus est hodie Salvator apparuit: hodie in terra canunt Angeli, laetantur Archangeli: hodie exsultant justi, dicentes: Gloria in excelsis Deo, alleluja. Today is Christ born; today the Saviour has appeared; today the Angels sing, the Archangels rejoice; today the righteous rejoice, s...

The original, unexpurgated, version of 'The Coventry Carol.' Dig those F#/F natural clashes in the penultimate bar of the verse!

This Darke setting of 'In the bleak midwinter' has probably become more popular than the slightly less elaborate Holst version which is what I was brought up on.

Keep those requests coming in! This one is for Mrs Trellis of North Wales. She says it reminds her of her ex-husband.

I know two 16th century settings of these beautiful Christmas words, both wonderful. This is by Victoria, the other is by Byrd.

Here is a very numinous medieval carol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y3DBbJ4wok The words, in modern English, are: There is no rose of such virtue As is the rose that bare Jesu: Alleluya For in this rose contained was Heaven and earth in little space: Res miranda By that rose we may well see That...

And here is one of the most beautiful twentieth-century carols, imho. The words are a translation of 'Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen.'

Here is one of my favourite Xmas carols, sung by the choir of King's College, Cambridge.

More drunken maunderings from this deluded, half-educated apology for a rational human being. (You'd think that even oiks like him would have been at least taught to spell properly at their Board Schools.) 'Balding', indeed! I'm afraid I've no option but to ask Admin to intervene and to ban 'maestro...