Mark Shepheard

Ouch! A case of the 'style brisé'? Wishing Adrian a speedy recovery

Just bought a copy for me to pick up from my mum when I'm visiting the UK in January. The CD looks too beautifully produced to make do with just downloads.

"From time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need." Acts 34-35

I think Badenoch belongs to the Ananias and Sapphira wing of Christianity

"Che gelida manina...!"

The art historian's burden: making a trip to campus just to collect one book that's too heavy to carry except by itself...

Long gone, I think. It was a branch of Ottakar's, which was eventually merged with Waterstones

Lovely. I have a soft spot for Putney; I used to work at a bookshop there about 25 years ago

A small oil painting of three figures on a street.

Hilda Rix Nicholas, 'Figures on a Moroccan street', c. 1912. Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney.

Dressed in a hooded brown-and-white robe, 'Chatbot Jesus' is here Jesus has been portrayed in many different ways, but no one has called Jesus an internet guru — that is, until now, writes Joseph L. Kimmel.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and God was a chatbot...
www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08...

As Salome might have put it: "Ich habe deinen Mund geküsst..."

Someone switched on the Florestan mode

Wish me luck....

Charles Conder, 'Departure of the Orient, Circular Quay', 1888.

Mark Shepheard, 'Departure of the Crown Princess, Circular Quay'. 2025

Will he visit the tomb of the real Charles III, I wonder? 😉

"He did, however, often direct from harpsichord in a state of some nudity and, despite scurrilous accounts of his gluttony, had the firm physique of an ancient athlete"

Today's marginal #musicians are playing the #lute and singing from partbooks.
Detail from Cipriano de Rore's Da pacem Domine, in a lavish #choirbook from 1559.
BSB Mus. ms. B(1.
#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #earlymodern #16thCentury #illuminatedmanuscript

Yes, I did think that came with a risk

The lady's not for turning (on)...?

ANU chancellor Julie Bishop formally responds to bullying allegations ANU chancellor Julie Bishop provides a formal written response "categorically" denying allegations of bullying, harassment and hostile behaviour, levelled against her during a Senate committee hearing...

Quo usque tandem abutere, Julie, patientia nostra?

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Enfin achevé...

If you don't know them already, you might enjoy Enrico Gatti's recordings of the various sets of Corelli's trio sonatas with his Ensemble Aurora. Very expansive performances that allow the music to breath

A.K.A John Georgiadis

Usage: 'I hear the university Chancellor was Madelsoned this week'

"To Mandelson": to take on a role and then be fired from that role due to egregious behaviour

Embattled ANU vice chancellor resigns amid staff fury Genevieve Bell has led the organisation through a controversial period, with major job cuts planned and deep staff discontent.

Finally. Now for the Chancellor...

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

I rather like Schoenberg's (and Webern's) Strauss reductions but I'm not sure I'd ever describe them as era-defining or punk ... 🤷🏼‍♂️

Knives out at ANU. New leadership by the end of the teaching break, I wonder...

As bad as Australia Post: suburban Melbourne to inner Canberra via... Brisbane?! 🤦🏼‍♂️

In French I think it would be 'incontenance angloise'