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Updates for 'Some Definite Service', a blog of oddments: poetry, music, churches, landscapes, traditions. Tweets by @FernandDouin

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The Catholic Herald
@CatholicHerald1 Mar 2025
Site for sore eyes: a pilgrimage to Wales and the shrine of St David’s mother ✍️Camilla Harrison thecatholicherald.com/site-f…
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Seattle Philharmonic@seattlephil13 May 2023
We hope they have a most wonderful performance! 🧡🖤
Some Definite Service@SDS_Blog13 May 2023
Ruth Gipps' 5th Symphony is to be performed in London next Saturday (20th May). Neglected for forty years, it was recently revived by Adam Stern and the @seattlephil. This will be only its third performance ever. some-definite-service.blogsp… Tickets at wegottickets.com/event/57686…
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BritSymphCup@britsymphcup18 May 2020
Ruth Gipps’ 5th & final symphony dates from 1982 & is dedicated to @WilliamWalton_. Scored for big forces - incl quadruple wind, 6 horns, 2 harps. It’s in 4 movements with the last subtitled ‘Mass for Orchestra’ & depicting 7 parts of the RC liturgy.
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Let us #PrayTogether for expectant women who will become mothers and who ask themselves: "What type of world will my child live in?". May the Lord give them the courage and confidence that it will certainly be a different world, but also one which the Lord will love tremendously.
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Vaughan Williams info@RVWinfo7 Dec 2019
"It is music of such stunning quality that one can only ask, 'Why? Why did we not know this before.'" @seattlephil music director Adam Stern on programming Ruth Gipps symphonies. youtu.be/oZCw4NCrIGc via @YouTube
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Some Definite Service@SDS_Blog7 Jul 2019
40,000 gather for 'Jednego Serca Jednego Ducha', an enormous annual open-air hymn-singing concert in Poland... some-definite-service.blogsp… #JSJD #JednegoSercaJednegoDucha #NewEvangelisation #CatholicChurch youtu.be/3c0M7ZrqVR0?t=11107
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Some Definite Service@SDS_Blog28 May 2019
Impressions from London's March for Life: some-definite-service.blogsp… #March4LifeUK #prolife #Irreplaceable
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Some Definite Service@SDS_Blog10 Jun 2019
Happy feast of Pentecost! A little ramble for Whitsuntide: some-definite-service.blogsp… #Whitsun #Pentecost
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Seattle Philharmonic@seattlephil30 Mar 2018
A blogger from across the pond is talking up our upcoming concert (this Saturday at 2pm, Benaroya Hall). Dominic N writes specifically about his fellow Brit, Ruth Gipps, whose 2nd symphony we are bringing to the American concert stage for the first time.… ift.tt/2J6jpeg
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Advent is a time to prepare our hearts to receive Christ, our Saviour and hope.
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