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To: AnAmericanMother

Heehee! Musicians sometimes seem to be troublesome lot (no personal experience or anything like that) ;-)

How do you come to know so much about this gent?


9 posted on 05/25/2012 8:04:46 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: MV=PY
Musicians are . . . different. Sometimes troublesome, sometimes not.

I know about Mr. Weelkes and his checkered career because he composed a lot of church music. I usually look up the dates &c. of any composer we sing, and when I looked him up, I found all this stuff. He apparently was pretty notorious. Which is kind of sad that he had to suffer so (of course those around him had to also. Very sad all around).

If you put "Thomas Weelkes" into YouTube you'll get all sorts of neat stuff. The big names in early music like the Kings Singers or Cambridge are safest, but there are lots of local groups singing both sacred and secular.

10 posted on 05/26/2012 5:57:32 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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