[Magdalen] Coffee on monitor moment

[P. Dan Brittain]

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 7:01 PM, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com>
wrote:

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> >>>> Mother Egregia sent the abbey plane with a chorus of postulants to
> give His Excellency the President of the United States a lovely note on
> perfumed paper to thank him for his "unusually frank averral."
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> >>>> I refer thee to the "doudou" website  sent by one of listsibs earlier
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> I had written a reply to Lynn and I just sent another one.I lost the first
> post when I tried to put a circumflex accent on excreme (not putting it on
> again(g) I don't know whether you saw Dan Brittain's riposte in which he
> advised me the Belgian Website "doudou" which is a site devoted to the folk
> festival celebrating the battle of St George and the Dragon. part of the
> music are various brass bands playing "Doudou" which is the theme song of
> the festival I am not sure whether "Doudou" is a French cognate or not,
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​Probably not. http://tinyurl.com/lowtmo7  gives "cuddly toy," and then
other variants.​



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> As Anna Russel averred, "I'm not making this up, you know."
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> I ALSO  advised the worthies who are privy to this lore that the website
> matched two other on line sources, "The Dancing Procession of Echternacht"
> and the Triduum or St. Liborius from Paderborn. Both of these events
> feature brass bands so that is why Dan alerted me to "doudou"
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​When we lived in Heidelberg, I looked after the Army bands in Germany (10
at that time).
The City of Mons is also the home of SHAPE (NATO headquarters).
The NATO music festival used to be held every year in Mons at the same time
as the Ducasse. In 1974, I was sent as an escort for the Heidelberg band.
Strange juxtaposition of Military and religious. Week long celebration of
Ste Waudru - including a ceremonial​ taking of her relics from the church
in a grand parade on Sunday morning, ending at noon with the dragon bit.
One of the things I remember in the parade was a boy's choir with the
banner "Pages de Roland de Lassus." I hadn't known that de Lassus (di
Lasso) had been from Mons.

The military bands - from 7-8 countries did nightly concerts on the square,
usually 3 concerts a night; one night a torchlight parade, where a local
"sport" was trying to see how many folk could crash a military formation;
one afternoon a marching show at the soccer stadium.

Two years later, we went back a second time - me and the family. Toured the
city, lots of interesting sights. We went up into the bell tower (carillon)
which was also an observation platform. The carillon player saw us and
invited us up to see the instrument. I have a photo of my wife holding our
3-year old banging on the carillon pegs.

One of the customs of the combat is the dragon's tail is swept over the
crowd now and then. If you can get some of the hair from the tail, it is
good luck for the year.http://tinyurl.com/q5zvble

Great fun. The Ducasse is still held, though the band festival was moved to
Kaiserslautern several years ago.




> Dan Brittan is a list sib on some of the Anglican or musical website to
> which I subscribe. He is a bandmaster and arranger and an expert in Sacred
> Harp music.
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​Next weekend we will help with a new singing​

​in south Arkansas at a one-time state capitol - Old Washington."​

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> The Grand Duke Palaeologue aka the Despot of  Epirus has proposed to
> confer the Ordo Hagio Pnevmati on Dan because of his great contributions to
> wind instruments (wink, wink, nod nod)
>

​Merci. <g>​




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Harrison, Arkansas

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