Yet only a handful are known or played today. He kept this up for five years, and although we have lost about a third of the total, the remaining two hundred are among the great glories of European music. Several of these he wrote early in his career but from the time that he moved to Leipzig in 1723 aged 38, he threw all his energies into the task of composing a complete set of cantatas for every Sunday and feast-day in the church year -about sixty in all. But for me the heart of Bach lies in the weekly cantatas he wrote in the service of the church. Doubtless there will be a plethora of Bach celebrations all over the world in 2000 in the best concert halls and in all the major cities, featuring the most famous of his works - the Brandenburg concertos, the B minor mass and the Passions. "Where there is devotional music, God with his grace is always present." (Bach´s entry in his bible) "By a strange quirk of history, the 250th anniversary of Bach´s death falls in the year 2000, at a pivotal moment in human history - a time for looking back and forward. John Eliot Gardiner on tour with the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists documentaryĪbout Gardiners year long project of performing all of Bach´s known church cantatas on the apropriate Sundays - in celebration of the 250th death day of Johann Sebastian Bach. BACH CANTATA PILGRIMAGE | 60 MIN | BBC Wales 2001
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Sent to live with an offbeat foster family and their "dooking" ferrets, Iris must find a way to take care of the animals back at the farm, even if it means confronting Aunt Sue. Things come to a head when Iris sets two young goats free to save them from slaughter, and an enraged Aunt Sue orders her brutish son, Book, to beat Iris senseless - a horrific act that lands Book and his mother in jail. Iris, a vegetarian and animal lover, immediately clashes with Aunt Sue, who mistreats the livestock, spends Iris's small inheritance, and thinks nothing of striking Iris for the smallest offense. A gripping portrait of a teen's struggles through grief and abuse - and the miraculous power of animals to heal us.Īfter her veterinarian dad dies, sixteen-year-old Iris Wight must leave her beloved Maine to live on a North Carolina farm with her hardbitten aunt and a cousin she barely knows.
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These best-selling books are for 2 nd to 4 th graders, but they’re the kind of delightful children’s stories that adults can enjoy. Within days, I’d also read The Talented Clementine and Clementine’s Letter. As 8-year-old Clementine would say, that’s called Doing My Job. One of the perks of being a children’s librarian is that no one makes fun of you for reading a book written for 2 nd to 4 th graders. Vital and indispensable, this revised edition of The Intelligent Investor is the most important book you will ever read on how to reach your financial goals. While preserving the integrity of Graham's original text, this revised edition includes updated commentary by noted financial journalist Jason Zweig, whose perspective incorporates the realities of today's market, draws parallels between Graham's examples and today's financial headlines, and gives readers a more thorough understanding of how to apply Graham's principles. 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There you have it I'm starting to revert to nonsense, as good books have a tendency to make me. It may not be the most exciting Culture novel (that will probably be Use of Weapons) or the funniest (that would be Against A Dark Background), but if it had tried to be that, it wouldn't have been what it is. And in that sense it is the ultimate Culture novel as it tells us as much about the Culture as possible. And it is accurate, because Look to Windward tells us as much about the Culture as it is possible to tell in three hundred and fifty pages while still keeping a story flowing. It can't get any shorter than that and still hold meaning or any degree of accuracy. So let me sum up Look to Windward in one sentence: Look to Windward is the ultimate Culture novel. I know that I've used this excuse before, but that doesn't make it less true. Sometimes a book is just so good, that it becomes hard to review properly, without reverting to long sentences overflowing with superlatives (which quickly becomes boring). To think that it has been nearly a year since I read any Banks last – not strange that I had to consume this one over a single weekend. |