I had the pleasure last night of attending the first concert presented by the Lux Aeterna Project at King’s College Chapel in London. It was a showcase for some rather beautiful contemporary classical music, both well known and original. The medieval link? There’s not one, really, although the opening rendition of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ ‘Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis’ had obvious roots in the sixteenth century. Still not very medieval, but wonderful all the same, and I heartily implore you to check out the Lux Aeterna web site, here.
Archive for the ‘Not very medieval’ Category
February 26th, 2010
'Back From The Brink' by Peter Snowdon
February 12th, 2010
Give a clown a gun and whaddya got?
February 10th, 2010
Vampires: Why They Bite
If you want to have another look at tonight’s BBC3 show, ‘Vampires: Why They Bite’, which was presented by the brilliant Lisa Hilton, then jog on over to BBC iPlayer. You will spot me banging on about the historical significance of the vampire myth at several points.
February 8th, 2010
Writer’s block: Welsh rugby throws medieval blogger into giant funk
Any of these poor unfortunates would be a preferred choice at lock against Scotland
I’m finding it quite difficult to blog today, thanks to continuing wrath at Alun Wyn Jones. If the funk lifts, I’ll round up the best history reviews from the weekend’s papers a bit later on.
February 6th, 2010
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
When you read the Millennium books it’s both easy and difficult to see why they have been so successful. Difficult, because Larsson is not a good writer. His plots are long, flabby and tenuous. Some of his action scenes are risible. Larsson’s descriptions of violence against women - his favourite hobby horse - are mawkish and distastefully graphic. Easy because Larsson invented a truly original character…
Do wander over to GQ.com to read my latest books piece. This week I reconsidered Stieg Larsson and his ‘Millennium’ trilogy, in advance of the UK release of ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ in UK cinemas on March 10th.
The piece is here.
And this is the Swedish film trailer:
