and thank you.
I shouldn’t have had to ask.
I just wanted to be a part of sharing this. Hi, Katie and Lauren!
HOW YOU’LL FEEL WHEN YOU ATTEND SEATTLE PRO MUSICA’S “LUCIS” CONCERT IN ST. JAMES CATHEDRAL
GIFs shamelessly stolen from Conductorland. (If a GIF isn’t loading, click to load in new tab.)
Concert passes for May 18 & 19 still available. Go for the Prime seating if you can.
When we start by singing Ola Gjeilo “Spheres” from opposite transepts…
When the Vox ensemble performs Ēriks Ešenvalds’s “A Drop in the Ocean” (“Piliens Okeana”)…
When the rest of the choir joins in for Mircea Valeriu Diaconescu’s “Lumina Lina”…
When we sing J. Aaron McDermid’s “Wind (From Light to Light)” with double soprano solo…
When we sing William Harris’s “Bring us, O Lord God”…
When we sing Josef Rheinberger’s “Abendlied”…
When we end the first half with Jaakko Mäntyjärvi’s epic “Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae”…
When the women’s ensemble Chroma sings Hillary Tann’s “Contemplations 8, 9” from the West Gallery…
When the men’s ensemble Orpheon sings Timothy Takach’s “Luceat eis” gathered around the font…
When the whole choir joins back together for Herbert Howells’s “Requiem aeternam” (from Requiem)…
When we sing Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Svete tihiy” (“Gladsome light” from All-Night Vigil)…
When we sing Pavel Chesnokov’s “Spaseniye sodelal” (“Salvation is created”)…
When we sing Einojuhani Rautavaara’s “Avuksihuutopsalmi” (“Psalm of Invocation” from Vigilia)…
When we conclude with Vytautas Miškinis’s “Lucis creator optime”…
And you’ll be like…
And we’ll be all like…
npr:
here is today.
Are you suffering a long Monday? Click the image to put the concept of time in context and relieve this pain by yourself.
More: exploringtime.org
Happy Monday, everybody. -L
Uh, thanks, NPR…
There’s so much more you don’t see.
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When you hire a soloist [in part] because they are hott.
New favorite tumblr. (This month, anyway.)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/0fb9fa3c07f990469d2369a7b2d6fc7d/tumblr_mk8gvjuoat1rgpyzxo1_500.gif)
When you hire a soloist [in part] because they are hott.
New favorite tumblr. (This month, anyway.)
America is losing at math
Why oh why is grade school math curriculum so bad? Trying to help son with homework for straight-line equations, and finding:
a) no proper explanation of standard format for straight-line equations (y = mx + b)
b) no proper explanation of how to calculate slope from two known points
c) homework problems that were probably meant to resolve to straightforward answers but were constructed incorrectly so that the right answer involves absurdly complicated fractions or unending strings of decimals (MAJOR pet peeve of mine - sends kids down rabbit holes of computation that’s needlessly involved and leaves them frustrated without helping them grasp the underlying concept)
You know what IS clearly indicated on all the homework problems? WHETHER OR NOT SOLVING THE PROBLEM MEETS OR EXCEEDS STATE EXAM REQUIREMENTS.
When I’ve spent the day fighting for social justice
Don’t forget to practice self-care!
I ♥ NPR and the people who work there like Ofeibia Quist-Arcton. I’m still bummed no one’s come up with the smartphone app that has you try to guess the spelling of reporter’s names based on hearing their signoff. (Looking at you, Doualy Xaykaothao.)
