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| ====== Happy St. Britten Day! ====== | ====== Happy St. Britten Day! ====== |
| {{:blog:bbritten.jpg?nolink&220 |}}Tomorrow being St. Britten's Day (well, OK: it's actually [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Cecilia|St. Cecilia's Day]], patron saint of music, but it also happens to be the birthday of the chief of her sons, the blessed Benjamin Britten, who you might notice is a sort-of patron saint around here!), I shall wish you all a happy Benjamin Britten Day and encourage you to play nothing but the great BB for the day. | {{:blog:bbritten.jpg?nolink&220 |}}Tomorrow being St. Britten's Day (well, OK: it's actually [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Cecilia|St. Cecilia's Day]], patron saint of music, but it also happens to be the birthday of the chief of her sons, the blessed Benjamin Britten, who you might have noticed is a sort-of patron saint around here!), I shall wish you all a happy Benjamin Britten Day and encourage you to play nothing but the great BB for the day. |
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| I shall be telling Giocoso to do precisely that (and, in truth, have already started, for a couple of days now, as my [[listen:playhistory|play history]] might tell you!) and I think you'd find it rewarding too. | I shall be telling Giocoso to do precisely that (and, in truth, have already started, for a couple of days now, as my [[listen:playhistory|play history]] might tell you!) and I think you'd find it rewarding too. |