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Tag: Summer

  • Daphnis et Chloé Part III and Poem | Bordeaux Opera Chorus

    Daphnis et Chloé Part III and Poem | Bordeaux Opera Chorus

  • Summer | Tighten Up

    Summer | Tighten Up

    I know the year has been hard, but we persevered, so let us continue to learn to come together, and believe in one another. Tighten Up – Purdie/Rainey/Walker,/Phillips/Bivens/Jones/Morales/Donaldson & Mr. Alligator Boogaloo. Original song from Original Atlantic Records recording by Archie Bell & The Drells (1968).

  • Carl Orff: Ecce Gratum (“Behold, the Pleasant”)

    Carl Orff: Ecce Gratum (“Behold, the Pleasant”)

    “Behold, the Pleasant” “They gloryand rejoicein honeyed sweetnesswho striveto make use ofCupid’s prize;at Venus’ command…” ECCE GRATUM Ecce gratumet optatumver reducit gaudia,purpuratumfloret pratum,Sol serenat omnia.Iam am cedant tristia!Estas redit,nunc receditHyemis sevitia. Iam liquescitet decrescitgrando, nix et cetera,bruma fugit,et iam sugitVer estatis ubera;illi mens est misera,qui nec vivit,nec lascivitsub Estatis dextera. Glorianturte letanturin melle dulcedinis,qui conantur,ut…