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opera singer, folklorist, music teacher
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2013-05-01 08:11:00
Dancing and Leaping
May is the month for lovers; a month ‘when merry lads are playing’, as Orazio Vecchi’s text for Thomas Morley’s madrigal puts it. Since time immemorial, May has held a certain fascination for the poetic and pagan mind, completed by the crowning of the May Queen (perhaps a parallel with the coronation of Mary within the Christian church). But it has more distant roots in the ancient world. Always associated with new beginnings, May was dedicated to Artemis, the goddess of fecundity in the Greek world, while in Roman culture May was devoted to Flora, the goddess of flowers. In the Ancient University of Oxford, the Choir of Magdalen College climbs the tower and greets the rising sun on the first day of the month (as depicted here by William Holman Hunt). After a particularly long winter, perhaps May Morning 2013 heralds more. With the daffodils still out […]
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