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  • Other Montezuma Reviews

    There are a couple of other Montezuma reviews out there: Conrad Wilson in the Herald liked it. (4 stars – no mention of the dog) Rowena Smith in the Guardian hated it. (2 stars – no mention of the dog except in comments) Conrad Smith also hated it. (2 stars and concern for the dog’s…

  • Montezuma

    Montezuma by Carl Heinrich Graun to a libretto by Frederick II, King of Prussia Rating: This review should appear in due course on the Opera Britannia web-page. King’s Theatre, Edinburgh – 14 August 2010 Despite a somewhat slow start to proceedings, this Edinburgh Festival production of Montezuma was an inventive, surprising and ultimately very enjoyable…

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  • Wave Goodbye

    Oh, I do admire Google’s ability to fail. They started something a while ago called Google Wave which they launched as the answer to life the universe and everything. It was going to be collaborative workspace, social communication, the new e-mail that everyone was going to flock to and generally more fun than feather boas.…

  • Conversation, Striptease & Fishing – how to blog for beginners

    Hey, good news, good news. Malcolm Round has started a blog. Malcolm is the Rector of St Mungo’s, Balerno. I know he has been fascinated by the online blogging thing for a while and I’m delighted to see him having a go himself. Away you all go and read his stuff and leave him a…………

  • Equal Marriage – Prop 8 Ruling in California

    So, the anti-gay Prop 8 has been ruled unconstitutional in California. [Here’s the catch-up if you’ve not been paying attention – California allowed some same-sex couples to marry, then there was a people’s poll on the same day as the Obama election which was passeed by 52% to 48%. It determined a new amendment to…

  • Sermon preached on Lammas Day – 1 August 2010

    Today is 1 August and that is a traditional day in Scotland which has a name and a heritage and a series of traditions around it. And I bet most people these days don’t know what it is. Today, 1 August is Lammas Day – one of the Scottish Term Days, similar to the English…

  • Inclusive Language

    Ruth has the skinny on the Inclusive Language amendments that the College of Bishops has licensed for permitted use. The paper proclaiming these amendments has not reached these parts and I’m not sure what that situation means liturgically. Most of the amendments are not particularly surprising, and indeed, some of them have been in use…

  • St Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT

    We had a great day on Sunday at St Mary’s. The Feast of St James in the morning was a lovely interlude into the usual summer Sunday calendar and then a special Choral Evensong sung by the Choir of St Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, Connecticut. They had been in Lincoln for a week singing…