Category: music

And the Glory of the Lord (“Messiah”) – G F Handel (1685-1759)

March 12, 2024

We all get “earworms” from time to time. You know – those phrases of music that play themselves over and over in your head, on an endless loop. Today, mine is “And the Glory of the Lord”. It’s the 4th movement of Handel’s “Messiah”, arguably the best-known suite of choral music of all time. There are 53 movements in all, grouped into three Parts, and composed in just 24 days. That’s an astounding feat, even allowing for the recycling of some movements from Handel’s earlier compositions … More And the Glory of the Lord (“Messiah”) – G F Handel (1685-1759)

How Can I Keep from Singing? – Lowry (1826-99), arr. Bullard (b.1947)

February 27, 2024

At 8pm on Monday 4 January 2021 our Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, broadcast live to the nation that the whole of the UK would be going into full lockdown with immediate effect. The news hit me hard. Not because it was unexpected – after all, since March 2020 we in the northwest of England had been in full lockdown, Tier 3 or Tier 4 restrictions, all in effort to curb the spread of Covid-19 … More How Can I Keep from Singing? – Lowry (1826-99), arr. Bullard (b.1947)