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An Intensive Summer School in Academic Drawing for Catholics – Useful Whatever Your Preferred Tradition

by David Clayton on May 10, 2013 · 0 comments

Learn the Academic Method and Earn College Credit Whatever your preferred style of art, I always feel, if you are an artist who seeks to create beautiful work you must learn to draw. Drawing is the core discipline, the musical…

Update on Vespers at the Veterans’ Hospital in Manchester, NH

by David Clayton on March 15, 2013 · 0 comments

Readers may remember my writing about a small group of us making the commitment to sing Vespers and Compline at the Veterans hospital in Manchester, NH. We have been singing there fortnightly now since September last year. One of the…

AND SO THE WAITING BEGINS

by David on March 11, 2013 · 0 comments

In less than 24 (or 48 or 72 or more) hours we could know who will chosen as the next pope! Who’s it going to be? Scola? Turkson? Scherer? Dolan? No, he’s American and everybody hates us. What about Ouellet,…

THE TWELVE CLIPS OF CHRISTMAS: DAY 11:

by David on January 5, 2013 · 0 comments

Well, Christmastime is almost over. We’ll have to wait another year for all the decorations and candy canes and radio stations incessantly playing secular Christmas carols. For some reason though, despite the fact that it never once mentions the baby…

Psalm Tones for English – Learn to Sing Them in Half and Hour

by David Clayton December 11, 2012

Anyone can learn to sing the psalms Following a recent article about us singing Vespers at a local hospital, a number of people have been asking me about the music for the psalm tones that we use when we sing…

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Creativity and Fun with Substance

by David Clayton November 12, 2012

Dudley Moore parodying Beethoven piano sonato and Schuber lieder (‘Die Flabberghast’) I saw the first video below on Damien Thompson’s blog on The Daily Telegraph website. It is Dudley Moore playing his own composition, a parody of a Beethoven piano…

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HOLY HORRORS FOR HALLOWEEN FILM FESTIVAL: THE BELIEVERS

by David November 2, 2012

“A police psychologist and his school-age son become embroiled in the machinations of a mysterious cult religion in this thriller from director John Schlesinger. After his wife is electrocuted in a freak accident, Dr. Cal Jamison (Martin Sheen) and his…

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The Future of American Catholicism

by Russell Shaw October 5, 2012

Two new books by thoughtful Catholic authors take deeply different views of the future of American Catholicism. Both deserve serious pondering.
One of them is called Why Catholicism Matters. The subtitle tells it all: “How Catholic Virtues Can Reshape Society…

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Happy St. Anne’s (and Joachim’s) Day!

by Daria Sockey July 26, 2012

Had to share my favorite painting of St. Anne by my favorite artist.
And also, the official hymn for today’s feast, according to the Roman breviary.…

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Murals by John Singer Sargent at Boston Public Library

by David Clayton February 3, 2012

Murals by John Singer Sargent at Boston Public Library
by David Clayton on February 3, 2012

Yes really, I do mean at the Boston Public Library. It is quite a surprise to go into the public library and find a…

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