[Magdalen] Music memories

Scott Knitter scottknitter at gmail.com
Wed Dec 24 19:22:47 UTC 2014


On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Marion Thompson
<marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
> I love this Cantique, so sweet and yearning.  I tear up.

And he wrote it when he was 19. He won a prize for it. Well deserved!

When the Times of London printed the anthems to be sung in churches
the following Sunday (as part of the Court Circular), it seemed that
Cantique de Jean Racine was a regular in the cathedral choirs'
rotation. I don't encounter it much here in the USA.

-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA


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