Sunday Serendipity

Messe de minuit pour Noël (Midnight mass for Christmas), is a mass for four voices and orchestra by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, written in 1694 based on the melodies of ten French Christmas carols. (Wikipedia)

I hope you all have a joyous holiday.

I am headed out of town to visit a sister for a few days. She is having some major health issues and all of her children are coming home for Christmas week. I haven’t seen some of them in a while.

I ran across this video a few weeks back and enjoyed it so much that I saved it for today.

Merry Christmas and I will see you next Sunday

Jack

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26 thoughts on “Sunday Serendipity”

  1. merci bien, Jacques.
    Voyage en toute sécurité et joyeux Noël!

    [and many thanks to the little translator guy in the computer]

  2. from wiki:

    Snow at Argenteuil (French: Rue sous la neige, Argenteuil) is an oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the Impressionist artist Claude Monet. It is the largest of no fewer than eighteen works Monet painted of his home commune of Argenteuil while it was under a blanket of snow during the winter of 1874–1875. This painting—number 352 in Wildenstein’s catalogue of the works of Monet—is the largest of the eighteen. The attention to detail evident in the smaller paintings is less evident in this larger picture. Instead, Monet has rendered large areas of the canvas in closely like tones and colours of blue and grey. The application of smaller strokes of greens, yellows, reds and darker blues breaks up these large expanses, and the almost choreographed dispersal of these various colours helps bind the picture together. Paint at the depicted road surface is thicker than elsewhere in the painting, and impasto is suggestive of the feel of disturbed snow.[1]
    Most of Monet’s Snow at Argenteuil pictures from the winter of 1874–1875 were painted from locations close to the house on the boulevard Saint-Denis (now number 21 boulevard Karl Marx) into which Monet and his family had just moved. This particular painting shows the boulevard Saint-Denis looking in the direction of the junction with the rue de la Voie-des-Bans, with the river Seine out of sight to the rear, and the local railway station behind Monet’s back as he painted.[2]
    In December 1879 the painting was acquired from Monet by Théodore Duret. Recalling a conversation with the artist Édouard Manet, Duret years later reported that, ‘One winter he [Manet] wanted to paint a snow scene. I had in my possession just such a piece from Monet. After seeing it, he said “It is perfect! I would not know how to do better”, whereupon he gave up painting snow.'[A][3] The picture was acquired from Duret by the art dealers Boussod, Valadon et Cie of Paris in 1892; then by Harris Whittemore of Naugatuck, Connecticut in 1893. Acquavella Galleries of New York acquired the painting in the early 1970s, and then it was purchased by Simon Sainsbury in or around 1973. It was bequeathed by him to the National Gallery, London, in 2006 and it has remained there since.[4][5] [continues]

  3. speaking of snow jobs

     

    Attribution: Psychiatrist Tells Patient to Stop Watching News by Monte Wolverton, Battle Ground, WA

  6. Starting the day with an absurdity is fun.  Stupid wants the Panama Canal back, as if he could find it on a map.  I suppose he was told the great invasion of Panama by a previous president, Bush I, was something that would look good on his wall of phony trophies if he did it too.
     
    We have years of this insanity to put up with, or at least until mushie convinces vance to Twenty-fifth Amendment sfb.

  7. Nice music, pretty painting. Good way to great the chilly morning. Now a bit of coffee and a biscotti and life is good. 

  11. Normal people usually enjoy coffee or tea as a stimulant during the day, and night.  Have to wonder if Miss Looner has a room full of frogs or toads and strange fungus.

  19. Joe Manchin the drama queen again, on CNN today spewing his nonsense about how the Democratic Party left him by trying to “mainstream the extreme”.

    OK, so we lost the Electoral College by a couple hundred thousand votes in three states, less than the crowd total at 3 major football stadiums.

    Calm down.

  20. We are in the early stages of the idiot bouncing on the bouncy ball, the four year countdown has not even started, and the sfb has literally declared war on Panama.  A tiny country with a couple of rivers crossing from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.  If puttie can declare that he will take over Ukraine in three days, sfb has declared we already returned a small, Spanish speaking, country to American territory.
     
    Oh yeah, the idiocy started early and will last until the moron is back in his rubber room.

  21. Mr. Ivy was present at the Panama Canal during the last days it was ours, December 31, 1999. 

  23. We are tuned in, Craig. Thanks for the heads up. 

    We’re usually on a time delay here in the mountains.

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