music
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On 24th March 2025, Radcliffe On Trent Male Voice Choir sang a lunchtime recital in Leicester Cathedral, and one of my dear friends is a member of the choir. He told me it was very emotional being just a few feet away from Richard’s tomb. Not only that but he and his wife have joined…
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“….Music students from Leicester’s De Montfort University (DMU), have composed a series of pieces to mark the 10th anniversary of the reinterment of King Richard III at Leicester Cathedral. The cathedral commissioned the works as part of its ‘oral history’ of the remarkable story, which came to a head in 2015 when the former monarch’s…
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An invitation to a magnificent farewell feast….
Auld Lang Syne, Castles in the air, cats, Elizabeth Duchess of Suffolk, Fools and jesters, Henry VII, John de la pole Earl of Lincoln, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, lapdogs, Margaret Beaufort, medieval dogs and hounds, medieval feasts and banquets, medieval recipes, pugs, Richard III, Sir William StanleyI think that by now many of you know that the Murrey & Blue blog is to end by 24 January. To those of you for whom this is the first intimation, I apologise. There may be efforts to continue it or start a new blog in its place, but the final post in its…
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The lute is an instrument that I always associate with the medieval period, and so its playing will often feature in novels, films and so on. And rightly so, because its gentle sound is both beautiful and soothing. Wanting to set a scene where ladies were listening to a lute, I looked online for examples…
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