Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
A little admin update… A few years ago, as a result of a database move, a lot of annotations were accidentally cut short across the site. It’s taken a while but most, or maybe even all, of these have now been restored to their full length.
Enormous thanks must go to one reader, Max Wainer, who has diligently flagged more than 1,600 such annotations across the site for my attention over the past couple of years. Without his efforts I would probably never have got round to fixing so many, so thank you Max!
There may well be other annotations that have snuck through unfixed, but getting on for 2,000 have now been restored. So anyone reading through the earlier diary entries will now have the full benefit of all your collective work and thoughts.
2 comments | Permalink | Monday 15 November 2010 | Housekeeping
No time to write much, so in brief… Benjamin Till’s Pepys Motet is being performed live this Thursday at St Olave’s. You can also listen to a recording of most of the piece or follow Benjamin’s blog. More from him:
To put the work in context: It is a 40 part motet (in the style of Spem In Alium), scored for 40 individual voices, each of whom sing a unique line.
The 40 singers are grouped into 8 choirs of 5, each representing a different vocal tradition, which itself represents a different aspect of Pepys’ personality/ life.
Gospel singers sing about his family, early music singers sing passages relating to those uncomfortable bed fellows; religion and royalty, folk singers perform sections about life on the streets of 17th Century London, opera singers sing passages about social climbing, musical theatre singers perform passages relating to Pepys’ guilty pleasures and a choir of trebles sing passages relating to children. On top of this, there’s a choir from Magdalene College, Cambridge (who sing passages relating to Pepys’ quest to learn about life) and a choir from the Royal Navy (!!) Genuine singers from the Navy.
2 comments | Permalink | Wednesday 24 November 2010 | Events