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| Valentine's Day - Love, Lust, and Lamentation |
| Love, Lust, and Lamentation: Spend Valentine's evening in the cozy confines of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, and hear George Steel conduct his Vox ensemble in a program of alternatingly moving and racy compositions. Click here for more details. Program note excerpts; click here to read the complete notes: The Song of Songs Embracing history and prophecy, proverb and canticle, the Bible also includes one of the most superb erotic poems in all literature: The Song of Songs. Since this short book (116 verses) contains virtually not explicit religious reference, it has had to be interpreted as allegory for its place in scripture to be justified... The Ribald Chanson Carnal pleasure can be a metaphor for spiritual grace, or it can be, well, just carnal pleasure. As we have found in the case of the internet, it runs like wildfire through a new medium, and so it did in the Renaissance with the arrival of new kinds of song... (c) Paul Griffiths (www.disgwylfa.com) |
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