Continuing with the Christmas festivities, here’s a strange little puff piece, of whose 23 paragraphs only eight have more than one sentence.
Seriously. It reads like an outline.
A very bad outline.
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Take a look at what I mean.
The harpist will be Tabitha Reist Steiner, whom [chorale director Charles] Bruffy will put to full use on the program.
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“There is just something about the harp at Christmastime,” he said.
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Begin new paragraph and an entertaining concept concerning the flow of time.
Along with Britten’s 11-movement [Ceremony of Carols], the program courses over centuries.
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But more importantly, when he says that, “the program courses over the centuries,” I, you know, kinda expect to hear about—how do you say?—music composed in bygone centuries.
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Steven Paulus’ “Three Nativity Carols,” based on medieval sources, is one of several additional pieces accompanied by the harp on the holiday concert.
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“Medieval sources” is almost like coursing through the centuries. I suppose it’s also possible that Stephen Paulus was born in the twelfth century—his website doesn’t say.
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2 comments:
is one of several additional pieces accompanied by the harp...
The word additional seems a bit unnecessarily additional in this sentence.
End paragraph...coursing over the centuries and such.
Haha! A friend of mine, coursing through some interweb past, found this site and shared it with me. I was such a dumb writer back then, who knew nothing about everything. And, I couldn't agree more, it was a horrible outline. Hahaha!
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