Itzhak Perlman Plays "Sérénade Mélancolique Op 26", By Tchaikovsky.

Itzhak Perlman plays

"Serenade Melancolique Op 26",

by Tchaikovsky.

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Itzhak Perlman (Hebrew: יצחק פרלמן‎‎; born 31 August 1945) is an Israeli-American violinist, conductor, and music teacher. Over the course of his career, Perlman has performed Worldwide, and throughout The United States, in venues that have included a State Dinner at The White House honoring Queen Elizabeth II, and a Presidential Inauguration, and he has conducted The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and The Westchester Philharmonic. In 2015, he was awarded The Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Perlman was born in Tel Aviv in 1945, then British Mandate of Palestine, now Israel. His parents, Chaim and Shoshana Perlman, were natives of Poland and had independently immigrated to Palestine in the Mid-1930s before they met and later married.

Perlman first became interested in the violin after hearing a classical music performance on the radio. At the age of three, he was denied admission to The Shulamit Conservatory for being too small to hold a violin.

He instead taught himself how to play the instrument using a toy fiddle until he was old enough to study with Rivka Goldgart at The Shulamit Conservatory and at The Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, where he gave his first recital at age 10, before moving to The United States to study at The Juilliard School with the violin pedagogue Ivan Galamian and his assistant Dorothy DeLay.

Perlman contracted polio at age four. He made a good recovery, learning to walk with crutches. Today, he uses crutches or an electric Amigo scooter for mobility and plays the violin while seated.

Madama Butterfly. Puccini’s Heartbreaking Opera. The New York Met.

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Salisbury Cathedral.

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Salisbury Cathedral, officially-known as The Cathedral Church of The Blessed Virgin Mary, is an Anglican Cathedral in Salisbury, England, and one of the leading examples of Early-English Architecture. The main body of the Cathedral was completed in only thirty-eight years, from 1220 to 1258.

Since 1549, the Cathedral has had the tallest Church Spire in The United Kingdom, at 404 feet

(123 m). Visitors can take the "Tower Tour", where the Interior of the hollow Spire, with its ancient wood scaffolding, can be viewed.

Salisbury Cathedral.

Date: 2016.

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Author: Antony McCallum:

Who is the uploader, photographer, full copyright owner

and proprietor of WyrdLight.com

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The Cathedral also has the largest Cloister and the largest Cathedral Close in Britain (eighty acres (thirty-two ha)). It contains the World's oldest working Clock (from 1386) and has the best surviving of the four original copies of Magna Carta. In 2008, the Cathedral celebrated the 750th Anniversary of its Consecration.

The Cathedral is The Mother Church of The Diocese of Salisbury and is The Seat of The Bishop of Salisbury, currently The Right Reverend Nick Holtam.

Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus, Köln. Cathedral Church Of Saint Peter, Cologne. Ecclesia Cathedralis Sanctorum Petri.

Cologne Cathedral, Germany.

Illustration: SHUTTERSTOCK

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Cologne Cathedral (German: Kölner Dom, officially Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus, Latin: Ecclesia Cathedralis Sanctorum Petri, English: Cathedral Church of Saint Peter) is a Roman Catholic Cathedral in Cologne, Germany.

It is The Seat of The Archbishop of Cologne and of The Administration of The Archdiocese of Cologne. It is a renowned Monument of German Catholicism and Gothic Architecture and was declared a World Heritage Site in 1996. It is Germany's most visited landmark, attracting an average of 20,000 people a day and currently the tallest Twin-Spired Church at 157 m (515 ft) tall.

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English: The unfinished Cologne Cathedral, 1856, with a 15th-Century Crane on The South Tower.

Deutsch: Vor dem unfertigen Dom: 

Zollverwaltung 

Am Bollwerk“ mit achteckigem Zinnenturm.

Date: 1856.

Source: Uta Grefe: Köln in frühen Photographien 1847-1914, Schirmer/Mosel Verlag,

München, 1988, ISBN 3-88814-294-6Scan by Raimond Spekking.

Author: Johann Franz Michiels (1823–1887).

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Construction of Cologne Cathedral commenced in 1248 and was halted in 1473, leaving it unfinished. Work restarted in the 19th-Century and was completed, to the original Plan, in 1880. The Cathedral is the largest Gothic Church in Northern Europe and has the Second-Tallest Spires. The Towers for its two huge Spires give the Cathedral the largest façade of any Church in the World. The Choir has the largest height to width ratio, 3.6:1, of any Mediaeval Church.

Cologne's Mediaeval builders had planned a grand structure to house the Reliquary of The Three Kings and fit its role as a place of Worship for The Holy Roman Emperor. Despite having been left incomplete during the Mediaeval period, Cologne Cathedral eventually became unified as "a masterpiece of exceptional intrinsic value" and "a powerful testimony to the strength and persistence of Christian Belief in Mediaeval and Modern Europe".

Deo Gratias. The Traditional Sacrament Of Confirmation, In Madison, Wisconsin, Was Conferred By His Excellency, The Most Reverend, Bishop Robert C. Morlino.

Deo Gratias.

The Motto of Bishop Morlino: "Visus non mentietur" (The Eyes Do Not Lie).

The Traditional Sacrament Of Confirmation In Madison, Wisconsin,

Was Conferred By 

His Excellency, The Most Reverend, Bishop Robert C. Morlino.

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English: The Coat-of-Arms of the U.S. Bishop, Robert Charles Morlino, Bishop of Madison.

Motto: Visus non mentietur (The Eyes Do Not Lie).

Español: Escudo de armas del obispo estadounidense Robert Charles Morlino, obispo de Madison.

Date 5 November 2014.

Reference: 

www.madisondiocese.org

Source: Own work.

Author: SajoR

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Don't Forget To Say Your Night Prayers.

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Novena For The Immaculate Conception, At Saint Mary Church, Greenwich, Connecticut.

Illustration: THE SOCIETY OF SAINT HUGH OF CLUNY

Modernism's Formation All Awry. No Substance In Defence. Looking Lack-Lustre. Lacks Direction. Endures Thrashing By Self-Absorbed Promethean Neo-Pelagians.

Self-Absorbed Promethean Neo-Pelagians' Stalwart Captain.

Illustration: MY LEARNING

Modernism's Innovators     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0  

Self-Absorbed Promethean Neo-Pelagians . . . 9

Self-Absorbed Promethean Neo-Pelagians' Goal-Keeper Retains The Ball and The Basic Truths.

Illustration: SOCCER HEROES. FROM VICTORIAN TIMES TO THE PREMIERSHIP.

An 11th-Century Mediaeval English Hymn. "Jesu Cristes Mildë Moder". "Jesus Christ's Gentle Mother".

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"Jesu Cristes Mildë Moder".

(Jesus Christ's Gentle Mother).

Sung by Sequentia.

Ensemble for Mediaeval Music,

Cologne, Germany.

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Mater Dolorosa.

Artist: Jusepe de Ribera.

Date: 1638.

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Sums It Up, Really.

Stir-Up Sunday. 26 November 2017.

Text and Illustrations, with amendments for 2017, are from
the Post of 20 November 2016 on FR. Z's BLOG

Today, Sunday, 26 November 2017, is The Last Sunday of The Church’s Liturgical Year (The Twenty-Fourth And Last Sunday After Pentecost).

It is therefore . . .

STIR UP SUNDAY !

The “Stir Up” comes from the first words of The Traditional Collect in The Roman Rite. It also comes from the Tradition of stirring up the ingredients of The Christmas Pudding !

What are your plans for Christmas Puddings ?

The more important question is: What are MY plans for Christmas Puddings.

I must give this some thought.

UPDATE:

I found a Christmas Pudding from TWO YEARS AGO, tucked away for ageing.

I would say that it is sufficiently Seasoned.

QUAERITUR:

Will it be lethal ?

If not, maybe I won’t make one.

I invite input, especially from experts in Blighty.

Basilica Of Saint Denis, Paris, France.

English: Stained-Glass Windows in The Choir, Basilica of Saint Denis, Paris, France.

Español: Vitral de la basilica de Saint-Denis.

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Stained-Glass Windows in The Choir, Basilica of Saint Denis, Paris, France.

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The Basilica of Saint Denis (French: Basilique royale de Saint-Denis, or, simply, Basilique Saint-Denis) is a large Mediaeval Abbey Church in the City of Saint-Denis, now a Northern suburb of Paris. The building is of unique importance historically and architecturally, as its Choir, completed in 1144, shows the first use of all of the elements of Gothic Architecture.

The site originated as a Gallo-Roman Cemetery in Late-Roman times. The Archaeological Remains still lie beneath the Cathedral; the people buried there seem to have had a Faith that was a mix of Christian and Pre-Christian beliefs and practices.

Around 475 A.D., Saint Genevieve purchased some land and built Saint-Denys de la Chapelle. Then, in 636 A.D., on the orders of King Dagobert I, the Relics of Saint Denis, a Patron Saint of France, were re-interred in the Basilica. The Relics of Saint Denis, which had been Transferred to the Parish Church of the Town in 1795, were brought back again to the Abbey in 1819.

The Basilica became a place of Pilgrimage and the burial place of The French Kings, with nearly every King from the 10th- to the 18th-Centuries being buried there, as well as many from previous Centuries. (It was not used for the Coronations of Kings, that function being reserved for The Cathedral of Reims; however, French Queens were commonly Crowned there.) "Saint-Denis" soon became the Abbey Church of a growing Monastic complex.

In the 12th-Century, Abbot Suger rebuilt portions of the Abbey Church using innovative structural and decorative features. In doing so, he is said to have created the first truly Gothic building. The Basilica's 13th-Century Nave is the prototype for the Rayonnant Gothic Style, and provided an Architectural model for many Mediaeval Cathedrals and Abbeys of Northern France, Germany, England and a great many other Countries.

The Abbey Church became a Cathedral in 1966 and is The Seat of The Bishop of Saint-Denis, Pascal Michel Ghislain Delannoy. Although known as the "Basilica of Saint Denis", the Cathedral has not been granted the Title of Minor Basilica by The Vatican.

"Pulcherrima Rosa". The 15th-Century Motet To The Blessed Virgin Mary. "The Most Beautiful Rose".

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"Mon Jésus, Je Vous Aime, et me donne á Vous pour toujours."

"My Jesus, I love You, and give myself to You for always."

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"Pulcherrima Rosa"

(The Most Beautiful Rose).

By The Hilliard Ensemble 

and Jan Garbarek.

The Chapel of Jesus College, 

Cambridge, England.

1994.

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Pulcherrima rosa de spina floruit

Ex flore germinosa lilium genuit

Servans pudorem ex virgineo more

Peperit factura factura factorem.

Virgo singularis te nulla dignior

Fulgens stella maris luna lucidior

Sic succuristi regina mundo tristi

Eve matris sic quae noxam que solvisti.

Esto nobis grata tis aput filium

Mater advocata post hoc exilium

Nos per iuvamen pater natus ac flamen

Tuum mater virgo solvat omnes.

Amen.

Latin Text: CPDL

Most Beautiful Rose blooming from a thorn

From the budding flower, a lily born

Serving modestly and in a Virginal way

The created one bore The Creator

Unique Virgin, no-one is worthy of you

Gleaming Star of the Sea, Light and the Moon

Serving modestly and in a Virginal way

The created one bore The Creator

Such succour Queen of this sad World

And Mother of Eve who lightens our punishment

Serving modestly and in a Virginal way

The created one bore The Creator

Freely for us, beside your Son, Mother and witness

After this Earthly exile

Serving modestly and in a Virginal way

The created one bore The Creator.

Amen.

English Text: DATAB.US

Illustration: PINTEREST

"Rosa Mystica" (Mystical Rose) is one of Our Lady's beautiful Titles.

It is included in the recitation of The Litany to Our Lady (The Litany of Loreto).

Cattedrale Di Santa Maria Del Fiore. Cathedral Of Saint Mary Of The Flower. Cathedral Sanctae Mariae Floris.

English: Cathedral Of Saint Mary Of The Flower, Florence, Italy.

Italiano: Cattedrale Di Santa Maria Del Fiore.

Latin: Cathedral Sanctae Mariae Floris.

Illustration: SHUTTERSTOCK

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The Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore (English: "Cathedral of Saint Mary Of The Flower") is the main Church of Florence, Italy. Il Duomo di Firenze, as it is ordinarily called, was begun in 1296 in The Gothic Style, with the design of Arnolfo di Cambio, and completed structurally in 1436 with the Dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi.

The Exterior of the Basilica is faced with Polychrome Marble Panels in various shades of Green and Pink, bordered by White, and has an elaborate 19th-Century Gothic Revival façade by Emilio De Fabris.

The Cathedral complex, located in Piazza del Duomo, Florence, includes the Baptistery and Giotto's Campanile. These three buildings are part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, covering the historic centre of Florence, and are a major attraction to tourists visiting Tuscany.

English: Florence Duomo as seen from Michelangelo Hill. Florence,Tuscany, Italy.

Français: Le Duomo de Florence : Santa Maria del Fiore.

Русский: Собор Санта-Мария-дель-Фьоре в Флоренции.

Вид с холма Микеланджело, находящегося южнее реки Арно.

Српски / srpski: Поглед на цркву Санта Марија дел Фјоре у

Фиренци са хриба Михеланђело, који се налази на другој страни реке Арно.

Photo: 25 October 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: Petar Milošević.

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Cathedral Of Saint Mary Of The Flower, Florence, Italy.

Photo: 22 July 2004.

Source: O

riginally posted to Flickr as Florence Duomo - Church

Author: Christopher Patterson

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The Basilica is one of Italy's largest Churches, and, until development of new structural materials in the modern era, the Dome was the largest in the World. It remains the largest brick Dome ever constructed.

The Cathedral is The Mother Church of The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Florence, whose Archbishop is currently Giuseppe Betori.

The Rosary Was Instituted Principally To Implore The Protection Of The Mother Of God Against The Enemies Of The Church - Pope Leo XIII. Salutaris Ille Spiritus Precum - 1883.

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Saint Cecilia. Virgin And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 22 November.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

Saint Cecilia.
   Virgin and Martyr.
   Feast Day 22 November.

Double.

Red Vestments.

Saint Cecilia.

Church of Saint Cecilia, Trastevere, Rome, Italy.

In the sculpture, by Stefano Maderno (1576-1636), Saint Cecilia extends three fingers with her

Right Hand and one with her Left Hand, testifying to The Trinity. The sculptor attested that

this was how the Saint's body looked when her tomb was opened in 1599.

Photographed at the Church of Saint Cecilia, 

Trastevere, Rome, Italy, by Richard Stracke.

Please credit the photographer and the Church.

Date: 26 September 2011 (original upload date).

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Born at Rome, of the illustrious family of the Coecilli,, Cecilia, as a child, consecrated her Virginity to God. When she was forced to marry Valerian, a young pagan, she said to him on the night of the wedding: "Valerian, I am placed under the guardianship of an Angel, who protects my Virginity; therefore, do not attempt anything which may bring down on thee God's anger."

Valerian dared not approach her and declared that he would believe in Jesus Christ if he saw the Angel. Cecilia assured him that this was impossible unless he was first Baptised, and sent him to Pope Urban I, who lived hidden in The Catacombs, on account of the persecutions.

Pope Urban I Baptised him and Valerian saw, near his Virginal Spouse, an Angel, brilliant with a Divine Light. Cecilia also instructed Tiburtius, the brother of Valerian, in the Faith of Jesus Christ, and Tiburtius, having been Baptised, also saw Cecilia's Angel. A short time after, both brothers were Martyred under the Prefect Almachius.

The Church of Saint Cecilia, 

Trastevere, Rome, Italy.

The body of the Saint lies beneath The High Altar.

The Station on The Wednesday in 

The Second Week of Lent is held here.

Illustration: LITURGIA LATINA

Finally, the last-named arrested Cecilia and ordered her to be put to death in her house. This was about 230 A.D.

Her body was discovered in 1599 by Cardinal Sfondrati, just as it was at the moment of her death. Stefano Maderno sculptured a famous reproduction of the body, which is seen under The High Altar of her Church in Rome.

Her house was transformed into a Church, where her body lies. For many Centuries, a number of Virgins of The Order of Saint Benedict have watched over this treasure. The Church is one of the two ornaments of The Trastevere, the other being Saint Mary's. Here is held The Station on The Wednesday in The Second Week of Lent. The name of Saint Cecilia is mentioned in The Canon of The Mass (Second List).

"To the sound of musical instruments," says The First Antiphon at Vespers, "the Virgin Cecilia sang to God in her heart." On this account, she has been chosen as The Patroness of Musicians.

Mass: Loquébar de testimóniis.

The New York Met. Puccini’s Heartbreaking Opera. Madama Butterfly.

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"In Disgrace". Bessie Pease Gutmann.

"In Disgrace".

Artist: Bessie Pease Gutmann.

Date: 1935.

Illustration: E-BAY

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Bessie Pease Gutmann (8 April 1876 – 29 September 1960) was an American Artist and Illustrator, initially as Bessie Collins Pease, most noted for her paintings of putti, infants, and young children.

During the Early-1900s, she was one of the better-known Magazine and Book Illustrators in The United States. Her artwork was featured on twenty-two Magazine Covers, such as Woman's Home Companion and McCall's, between 1906 and 1920.

She also illustrated popular Children's Books, including a notable 1907 Edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Although the commercial popularity of her art declined during World War II, there was renewed interest in her Illustrations from collectors by the Late-20th-Century.

The Presentation Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Feast Day 21 November.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

The Presentation of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
   Feast Day 21 November.

Greater-Double.

White Vestments.

English: The Presentation of The Virgin Mary (detail).

Titian (1490–1576).

Italiano: Tiziano. Presentazione al Tempio (dettaglio).

Date: 1534 - 1538.

Current location: Accademia of Venice, Italy.

Source: Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy.

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After having Solemnised, on 8 September, The Nativity of The Blessed Virgin, and, four days later, The Feast of The Holy Name of Mary, a name given to her a short time before her Birth, The Cycle celebrates on this day The Presentation in the Temple of The Child of Benediction.

These first three Feasts of Mary's Cycle are an echo of The Christological Cycle, which, likewise, celebrates: The Birth of Jesus, 25 December; The Imposition of His Holy Name, 2 January; and His Presentation in the Temple, 2 February.

English: The Presentation of The Blessed Virgin Mary in the Temple.

Italiano: Presentazione di maria al tempio.

Artist: Alfonso Boschi.

Date: 17th-Century.

Source: Giovanni Piccirillo (a cura di),

La chiesa dei Santi Michele e Gaetano,

Becocci Editore, Firenze 2006.

Author: sailko.

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The Feast of The Presentation of Mary is founded on a pious Tradition, originated by two apocryphal Gospels, which relate that The Blessed Virgin was Presented in the Temple of Jerusalem, when three years old, and that she lived there, with other girls and the Holy Women, who had them in their care. Already in the 6th-Century A.D., the event is Commemorated in The East and the Emperor, Michael Comnenus, alludes to it in a Constitution of 1166.

English: Fresco of The Presentation of The Blessed Virgin Mary. 

The Monastery Church

of The Assumption, 

Dillingen-on-The-Danube, Bavaria, Germany.

Deutsch: de:Klosterkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt (Dillingen an der Donau)

der Dillinger Franziskanerinnen in Dillingen an der Donau,

Fresko mit der Darstellung des Tempelganges Mariens.

Photo: 26 September 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: GFreihalter.

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A French nobleman, Philippe de Maizières, who was Chancellor at the Court of the King of Cyprus, having been sent in 1372 as Ambassador to Pope Gregory XI, at Avignon, related to the Pope with what magnificence The Feast was Solemnised in Greece, on 21 November. His Holiness introduced The Feast at Avignon and Pope Sixtus V introduced it at Rome in 1585. Pope Clement VIII raised it to the Rank of Greater-Double and re-arranged The Office.

Mass: Salve, Sancta Parens.

Preface: Of The Blessed Virgin Mary: Et te in Praesentatione.

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Perkins Has Got Carried Away, Again !!!

Told Perkins we needed a new Charabanc and look what he brought back !!!

A 1908 Prinz-Heinrich Benz.

I think he's beginning to lose the plot !!!

Illustration: HEMMINGS DAILY

Saint Felix Of Valois. Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 20 November.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.

Saint Felix Of Valois.
   Confessor. 
   Feast Day 20 November.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Felix of Valois.

Illustration: ALCHETRON

Saint Felix of Valois Founded, with Saint John of Matha, The Order of The Most Holy Trinity for the ransom of captives. He belonged to the Royal Family of France and distinguished himself as a child by his compassion for those in trouble.

Wishing to put aside any claim to the Throne of France, he renounced all he possessed (Gospel) and retired to a desert, near Meaux, France, where he was joined by Saint John of Matha [Editor: Feast Day 8 February].

In consequence of a vision, they left their solitude and went to Rome. Pope Innocent III approved the Institute Founded by them for the redemption of captives (Collect). They were ready to suffer hunger and thirst and all sorts of ill-treatment to deliver their brethren (Epistle).

On their return to France, they presented themselves before King Philip-Augustus, who was most generous towards them. The Lord of Chatillion gave them a place called Cerfroi, where they Founded the Monastery which was the principal one of their Order.

Saint Felix gave his Soul to God in 1212.

Mass: Justus.