tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post7804752516936727087..comments2023-09-26T03:53:17.142-04:00Comments on Pentimento: "Oh! Shrive Me, Father"Pentimentohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17161146891505294679noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-12030107379987272292015-11-30T12:11:50.694-05:002015-11-30T12:11:50.694-05:00Good Irish Catholics would never say
LONDON-Derry...Good Irish Catholics would never say <br />LONDON-Derry.<br />The name was imposed on Derry by the unwanted & greedy British.<br />Lovely Derry, but never London.Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05196902667176024315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-41965427924831589822008-06-02T16:11:00.000-04:002008-06-02T16:11:00.000-04:00Thanks for your thoughtful comment, T.Q. I've bee...Thanks for your thoughtful comment, T.Q. I've been thinking about quitting singing for a while now, because it's so hard to practice every day with a two-year-old, let alone book gigs, and I'm still trying to finish my dissertation. But one of these Benedictines, someone who knows me quite well by now, told me after the concert, "You have to find a way to make this work." He put my singing in the context of the new evangelization called for by JPII, but, he said, that didn't mean I ever had to sing songs that were as explicit as "Devorgilla." I really hope I can find a way to sing in the way that he suggested. It's a bit of a mystery to me right now.<BR/><BR/>Interesting about Carole King; she was an unselfconscious and excellent songwriter, but, as I learned from the book Girls Like Us, it took her years to feel comfortable singing her own work. I guess it is a different kind of vulnerablility.Pentimentohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17161146891505294679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-55700143663537693082008-06-02T14:51:00.000-04:002008-06-02T14:51:00.000-04:00Carol King once said that it's easier to write son...Carol King once said that it's easier to write songs than to sing them. When you are singing in front of an audience, you are naked and you lose part of yourself, that part you give for the audience. After she said this (in some documentary on songwriters of the 1960s and 1970s), they showed her performing in the early 70s. She sang and played well and obviously made herself vulnerable to the audience.<BR/><BR/>I can tell from your writing that your singing is a way you really show yourself to the world. The monks are right. Sometimes it's hard to believe you are loved or forgivable, much less forgiven.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com