[Magdalen] Xmas greetings

James Oppenheimer-Crawford oppenheimerjw at gmail.com
Mon Dec 26 07:19:38 UTC 2016


After I got home it suddenly hit me that we had seen a concert of Red Army
musicians while in Moscow, and it just might be that some or all of those
people were on that plane. God be good to them!

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> That pairing would pack an emotional punch.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
>
> On 12/25/2016 11:33 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
>
>> Just returned from the small Xmas morning service at Saint James Chapel,
>> Hyde Park.
>>
>> Listening to NPR on my way home, I heard that a plane carrying musicians
>> and dancers of the Russian Army went down over the Black Sea, and it is
>> expected that there were no survivors.
>>
>> She then played Lauridsen's "O Nata Lux"
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI9P6HoiJy8
>>
>> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
>> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
>> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>>
>>
>


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