Many who do not consider themselves Christians, or who do not give much attention to the religious significance and traditions of Easter, still might well love the musical heritage.
I am a huge fan of the sound of English chorister traditions, tho I have zero education in them.
KERA - the excellent (to my mind) NPR station on DFW started by doing news only in the early mornings, afternoons, and evenings.
Daytime was classical music. Nighttime was mostly jazz.
As an NPR “classical music station”, KERA got the national feed of the Christmas Eve broadcast of 9 Lessons and Carols from the Kings College Cambridge Chapel and Choir
That’s where I first heard this chorister singing tradition taken to such excellence, and I fell in love with it. I made a point of catching it every year.
But this area didn’t really need a classical station, as we have the superb and beloved Dallas City-owned WRR, all classical.
And the nightly KERA jazz ratings were pretty low.
And KERA got better funded. So it finally went to 24/7 news. No more musical discovery there.
So I lost my access to the wonderful Xmas Eve service.
I used to try to get it off Usenet newsgroups, and then I got a bunch of various years’ services off BitTorrent. Once in a while I would catch it on BBC America, but I don’t do much TV.
And them came Youtube and now I can have all I want.
/youtube Kings College Cambridge Chapel Choir
(re KERA:. I still admire it, but I never listen to it anymore; they don’t make ATC or ME available as podcasts, and without a podcast app it is too hard to control the playback speed. I won’t listen without those controls.(
(And … There is so much other excellent voice-narration content out there. I have multiple thousands of owned digital download Audiobooks and there are so many excellent podcasts [Dan Carlin : )], and I’m thousands of eps behind )
I have never listened to any of the Dan Carlin current events podcasts and have no idea what his political opinions might be.
I sometimes listen to current events podcasts for info, if I think the info is high quality. Or for info about “the political temperature”, however that is defined.
I am not interested in having anyone “tell it like it is” to me.
Mostly because no one person has that comprehensive of a view imo.
Many who do not consider themselves Christians, or who do not give much attention to the religious significance and traditions of Easter, still might well love the musical heritage.
I am a huge fan of the sound of English chorister traditions, tho I have zero education in them.
Both from Kings College Choir. Cambridge:
Joyful Eastertide
Hallelujah Chorus
@f00l
/youtube here comes peter cottontail
@therealjrn @blaineg
KERA - the excellent (to my mind) NPR station on DFW started by doing news only in the early mornings, afternoons, and evenings.
Daytime was classical music. Nighttime was mostly jazz.
As an NPR “classical music station”, KERA got the national feed of the Christmas Eve broadcast of 9 Lessons and Carols from the Kings College Cambridge Chapel and Choir
That’s where I first heard this chorister singing tradition taken to such excellence, and I fell in love with it. I made a point of catching it every year.
But this area didn’t really need a classical station, as we have the superb and beloved Dallas City-owned WRR, all classical.
And the nightly KERA jazz ratings were pretty low.
And KERA got better funded. So it finally went to 24/7 news. No more musical discovery there.
So I lost my access to the wonderful Xmas Eve service.
I used to try to get it off Usenet newsgroups, and then I got a bunch of various years’ services off BitTorrent. Once in a while I would catch it on BBC America, but I don’t do much TV.
And them came Youtube and now I can have all I want.
/youtube Kings College Cambridge Chapel Choir
(re KERA:. I still admire it, but I never listen to it anymore; they don’t make ATC or ME available as podcasts, and without a podcast app it is too hard to control the playback speed. I won’t listen without those controls.(
(And … There is so much other excellent voice-narration content out there. I have multiple thousands of owned digital download Audiobooks and there are so many excellent podcasts [Dan Carlin : )], and I’m thousands of eps behind )
@blaineg @f00l I don’t listen to Dan’s political podcast much but I lovelovelove Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History.
@blaineg @therealjrn
I have never listened to any of the Dan Carlin current events podcasts and have no idea what his political opinions might be.
I sometimes listen to current events podcasts for info, if I think the info is high quality. Or for info about “the political temperature”, however that is defined.
I am not interested in having anyone “tell it like it is” to me.
Mostly because no one person has that comprehensive of a view imo.