A soliloquy for National Teacher's Day underscored by La ille Morte by famed French composer and teacher of composers Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979).

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Tips about isolation and Gregorian chant by Benedictine nuns in France and Poor Clare nuns in Minnesota. Featuring the Gregorian chant "Ubi caritas."

https://neumz.com/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/09/benedictine-nuns-release-gregorian-chants-to-help-ease-coronavirus-isolation

https://www.startribune.com/cloistered-minnesota-nuns-share-thoughts-on-handling-social-isolation/569966082/

https://archive.org/details/UbiCaritas

Simplicity and complexity: Robert Frost and Randall Thompson – Frostiana

Heard on the episode: 

Vermont 

https://archive.org/search.php?query=Randall%20Thompson%20Frostiana

An exploration of the journey of the soul.

https://files.freemusicarchive.org/storage-freemusicarchive-org/music/no_curator/Singles/01_-_Woods_of_Doom.mp3

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Daniel_Birch/MUSIC_FOR_TV_FILM__GAMES_VOL1/Frostbite

John C. Hughes Article on Frostiana

https://www.ncco-usa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/TCS_v5n1_c-Hughes.pdf

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When is love real and when is it not? Is love alone in our mind still love? Petrarch's Canzoniere in music, with settings by Marenzio and Liszt. 

Selections: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJlj1uy8cSA

https://archive.org/details/03AnneesDePelerinage.DeuxiemeAnnee.ItalieN.6.Sonetto123DelPetrarca_201808

https://files.freemusicarchive.org/storage-freemusicarchive-org/music/Music_for_Video/Frederic_Lardon_feat_Laura_Palme/Korgi/Frederic_Lardon_feat_Laura_Palme_-_09_-_Dans_le_love.mp3

https://files.freemusicarchive.org/storage-freemusicarchive-org/music/no_curator/Illusory_Scapes/Figments_Of_My_Wishes/Illusory_Scapes_-_06_-_Dance_Of_My_Imagination.mp3

For full Canzoniere: https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Italian/Petrarchhome.php

Elderly Man Cries At Cushion Of Wife From Family: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPcgW8jKhd8

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Back in action! Brief remarks about the Good Friday livestream of Bach's St. John Passion in Benedikt Kristjánsson's incredibly powerful rendition, performed at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Germany. Must watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zwy1Gi4ob4 

Also heard: Bio Unit's "You're Not Alone"

https://files.freemusicarchive.org/storage-freemusicarchive-org/music/Nul_Tiel_Records/Bio_Unit/Malfunction/Bio_Unit_-_07_-_Youre_Not_Alone.mp3

A reading from John 12:20, featuring Bob Chilcott's "Were You There" recorded by Festina Cantorum, Daniel Gostin, conductor, Shannon Rose McAuliffe, co-artistic director.

ECP reflects on Renaissance Men's recording of Thomas Tallis's Lamentations of Jeremiah and the social, economic, and humanitarian destruction brought by Covid-19. 

Ach Herr, lass dein lieb Engelein

Song of Solomon and Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)

Selections:

Anima mea liquefacta est / Adiuro vos, Filiae Hierusalem, SWV 263-264/Musicalische Compagney/Schütz: Lamenti et concerti by Musicalische Compagney

Translation found at EmmanuelMusic.org

Sammy's Medley by Eastern Watershed Klezmer Quartet

https://files.freemusicarchive.org/storage-freemusicarchive-org/music/WFMU/Eastern_Watershed_Klezmer_Quartet/Live_at_the_2011_Golden_Festival_--_EWKQ/Eastern_Watershed_Klezmer_Quartet_-_06_-_Sammys_Medley.mp3\

New York Times article on Schütz by Tommasini: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/arts/music/heinrich-schutz.html