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Spem in Tedium
MOPS Day, uh, 10. I am doing this one on a Sunday, when no-one is on the interwebs, because it’s the prime example of me using the rule ‘I will finish off all the ideas that were in my lost notebook, even if they are not strictly speaking good ideas’. It starts from a conversation a few years ago about Tallis’ brilliant 40-part motet, Spem in Alium, combined with various...
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Seven Imaginary Feasts
The First Feast The feast is held in a nautically-themed basement, somewhere in a distant and unedifying part of town. A reproduction of the last feast on the Titanic is served by a host of waiters in Pierre et Gilles sailor-boy costumes. As soon as the doors are closed, the noise of a tremendous rainstorm can be heard. A drip develops in the centre of the table. The first few courses are...
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