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This colour effect does not come from post-processing of the image (because there are none) but from the colour of the stained glass windows.
The votive candles are offerings made to the Black Madonna (whom I was standing next to when taking this photo.
Notre Dame in Douvres-la-Délivrande was built in the 19th century in the Gothic revival style, with the work ending in 1878. But the church is a replacement for earlier ones, this place being a place for pilgrimage to Our Lady of Deliverance since the Middle Ages.
For Thanksgiving our school put on a choir performance sponsored by the Never B solo adoption agency.
We are going to be really busy in December as our choir has been booked at loads of venues to do our Christmas show.
Here's some of the dates and venues;
Sunday, December 2nd @ 12:30PM SLT
Venue: Salem school
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Selby/159/185/57
Friday December 7th @ 1:30 PM SLT
Venue: Archdiocese of Lepanto
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/RothKo/100/79/23
Saturday December 8th @ 1:30PM SLT
Venue: Afterchills
Sunday, December 9th @ 1:30PM SLT
Venue: Wedcot theme park
Friday December 14th @ 1:00 PM SLT
Venue: Moppet
Saturday December 15th @ 1:00PM SLT
Venue: Theater on the Hill
Sunday, December 16th @ 2:00PM SLT
Venue: Dreamville
Saturday December 22nd @ 1:30PM SLT
Venue: Sharbel Makhluf
Sunday, December 23rd @ 1:30PM SLT
Venue: St Columba Abbey
To book the choir or for more information please visit the school website
The date on the gravestone closest to the boys has the date 17??. It's for a son, but his age can't be read.
yankees lost tonight. they needed one more flippin' game and they got all hot-headed and LOST. wednesday night they better make up for it!
longgggg day today. had a really good day at choir, though! i got a part in a trio...a guys' trio. yeahhhhh i tried out singing tenor 1 and got the solo! so in the trio, i'll be singing tenor 1? i dunno, but i thought it was really funny :]
Vicky and I went to Oxford for a Sunday afternoon to do a bit of shopping, have a nice meal out and take in the Christmas market and lights as well. Going into the Westgate Shopping Centre our ears were greeted by the Rockstar Choir in full voice. The sound and singing was amazing.
I will give thanks to You,
O lord, with all my heart,
in the presence of the angels
I will sing Your praise.
~ Psalm 138:1
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I noticed this little girl during a song performance in a church event. She was a bit off the choreography but in a cute and nice way. Shot in low-lights with no flash (boosted my ISO with the glass wide-open).
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The staircase can be treacherous in this abandoned Memphis church; the choir loft is buried beneath a partially collapsed roof.
The choir of Laon Cathedral ends with a flat wall with a huge rose window and three lancet windows. Such flat termination is characteristic for this cathedral; other cathedrals from that period have a circular end called a chevet.
The smaller of the two organs in the Hallgrímskirkja is the choir organ. It is a 10-voice choir organ built by Th. Frobenius and Sønner Orgelbyggeri A/S in Lyngby, Denmark and was inaugurated in December 1985. It has ten mechanical voices with a svelte on both playing boards. When I took this photo it has just been returned to its place after spending a period at its manufacturer in Denmark where it was repaired and expanded. The gentleman at the console was tuning it. I did not know this at the time. Its rededication concert took place on 19 May 2024.
“Hallgrímskirkja is the largest church in Iceland and towers over the centre of Reykjavík. It also houses the largest organ in the country.” Completed as recently as 1986, its 74.5 metre-high spire, distinctive brutalist-expressionist Gothic style, distinctively curved spire and side wings, and prominent city centre site have ensured it is already “an important symbol for Iceland's national identity”.
The church is named after the Icelandic poet and cleric Hallgrímur Pétursson (1614–1674), author of the Passion Hymns.
State Architect Guðjón Samúelsson's design of the church was commissioned in 1937. He is said to have designed it to resemble the trap rocks, mountains and glaciers of Iceland's landscape, in particular its columnar basalt "organ pipe" formations (such as those at Svartifoss). The design is similar in style to the expressionist architecture of Grundtvig's Church of Copenhagen, Denmark, completed in 1940, which has been described as a likely influence, alongside the expressionist Kirche am Hohenzollernplatz in Berlin, Germany (completed in 1933).
Architecturally, Hallgrímskirkja consists of three parts: The tower with the distinctly curved side wings which house service facilities, a nave in more traditional architecture, and a sanctuary at the other end of the nave, whose cylindrical shape has been described as evoking Viking war helmets.
It took 41 years to build the church: construction started in 1945, but the landmark tower was completed long before the whole church was finished. The crypt beneath the choir was consecrated in 1948, the steeple and wings were completed in 1974, and the nave was consecrated in 1986. The church was originally intended to be less tall, but the leaders of the Church of Iceland wanted a large spire to outshine Landakotskirkja (Landakot's Church), which was the cathedral of the Catholic Church in Iceland.
The church has a carillon of bells at the top which ring on the hour.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
We happened into a large chapel where the French choir were singing the American gospel song, "My Sweet Lord". What an experience.
A sneaky snatched shot of choir practice at Gloucester Cathedral this afternoon (photography is not normally allowed during choir practice).
These are not the boy (and now also girl) choristers!
They're going to Denmark to some kind of choir festival, probably loads of fun. Anywhoo, they asked me to take a picture for them and of course I was happy to do it. It's been pretty standard through the years, this sort of picture on the front of the programme, I have a picture of myself similar to this somewhere shelved away. The girls are all wearing the Icelandic traditional clothes.
I'm still a bit in shock over how everyone seems to be smiling and with open eyes.
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I wish everybody a happy winter solstice and, for our friends in the southern hemisphere, a happy longest day of the year.
Here is an interesting article about the solstice. The days get longer now.
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou see'st the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west;
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire,
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the deathbed whereon it must expire,
Consumed with that which it was nourished by.
This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
~William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73
Zoe Bear continues to do well. My new chiropractor's office is pet-friendly, and the staff and patients there love her. Thanks to all for caring about her.
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