[Magdalen] Coffee on monitor moment

[Joseph Cirou]

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>From: "P. Dan Brittain" <pdan.brittain at gmail.com>
>Sent: May 13, 2017 8:24 PM
>To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Coffee on monitor moment
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>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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>> >>>> Sister (novice) Gondeburga
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>> >>>> I refer thee to the "doudou" website  sent by one of listsibs earlier
>> this morning.
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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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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
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>Great fun. The Ducasse is still held, though the band festival was moved to
>Kaiserslautern several years ago.
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>> 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​
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>​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)
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>​Merci. <g>​
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Much fun was had by all. I think we could get a week's tour together to find the various band and folklorico-religious events held in the Benelux countries. ..

Lessee I am getting older and my bucket list is not fulfilled. I need to get to Bayreuth, see all these folk celebrations. I've been to La Scala. I would be satisfied visiting Mt Athos and then recovering in Dubrovnik. I would be satisified with a Ring in Seattle, have attended a Capella Romana program here in Atlanta; have been to Santa Fe twice. Saw Paisiello's Barber in Amsterdam (rather boring may have been the Heineken's) saw an early opera or pre Opera in Sorrento where the lecture was longer than the performance., attended a Russian Liturgy in Chevetogne. I'd like to move to Paris or maybe just somewhere I can understand the French. Thank goodness for the Opera Platform/ St Eugene's is a Gallo Tridentine parish with cute guys in white ties carrying the canopy for Corpus Christi. 

Joe

Joe