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“Alice Dancing Under the Gallows”: a story the world needs to see
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jmcgee
That’s the title of a new documentary, about the world’s oldest holocaust survivor. The trailer is below. Here is grace, dignity, courage and hope, summed up so beautifully in her simple creed: “Music is God.”
“When October goes…”
By
jmcgee
For the last day of the month: what may arguably be Barry Manilow’s best song (or, at least, my own personal favorite), set to a gorgeous lyric by the legendary Johnny Mercer. The Wikipedia entry on this song says: In his last year, as he was dying from brain cancer, Mercer became extremely fond of…
“Make me a channel of your peace…”
By
jmcgee
For this feast of St. Francis of Assisi: here’s that beloved hymn, sung before what may well have been its largest audience ever, a worldwide congregation of tens of millions, for the funeral of Princess Diana in 1997. (Footnote: yes, I know St. Francis didn’t actually write it. But – for better or worse –…
A joyful noise: kids sing Gregorian chant
By
jmcgee
And beautifully, I might add. H/T The Anchoress.
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