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Do you have this Tallis Scholars CD of Gregorio Allegri’s “Miserere”? If not, have a listen to the excerpts on Amazon.com, and consider adding it to your sacred music collection. And read the Amazon.com reviews online where early music authorities, and new fans alike attest in touching ways to the transformative powers of the piece,…

As I was researching Allegri’s “Miserere,” I found this list of Daniel Graser’s favorite pieces of sacred music on Amazon.com. Handel, Bruckner, Faure, Mahler, Brahams, Beethovan, Berlioz: Graser is a modern-day saxophonist who seems to know what he’s talking about. Have a look.

How does the month of April affect you? Julia Bondi writes this in a recent Mooncircles.com essay on the “Intuitive Message for the Libra Full Moon:” “Celebrations of spring, resurrection, and spiritual survival are natural to this season. Aries ushers in the awakening to greater light, to the promise of eternal life and to the…

Don’t miss this interview with “Traveling Mercies” author Anne Lamott, where she opens wide the definition of what a resurrection is.

Here’s another piece from the “Times” too irresistible to pass up for mention: this one is about people trying facial yoga to relax face and neck muscles and perhaps offset wrinkles. “People want a healthy alternative to looking good without artificial substance,” said Annelise Hagen, a former actress whose book, “The Yoga Face,” is to…

Here’s another fun egg project. This one involves blowing the contents of the egg out of its shell through a tiny hole (something older kids will think is cool when they’ve outgrown the thrills of egg dying). Then the hollow eggs are strung and hung from a decorative branch made to look like a tree.…

Metamucil, the fiber “regularity” product for older folks has developed ads for the young, nut-and-berry set. “Drop Dead Gorgeous Guts” the ad headline reads next to a pretty model moving into a yoga “plow” position. Issues of these ads and potential eating disorder-related concerns aside, Metamucil is okay, but not necessary for everyone. I keep…

The hottest actor in New York right now is Liev Schreiber. “New York Times” theater critic Ben Brantley calls him the “finest American theater actor of his generation.” I saw Schreiber in David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” a couple of years ago. And last week I saw him drink, chain smoke, snort cocaine, and viciously…

March 31st is Al Gore’s birthday (he’s an Aries), and astrologer Shelley Ackerman has responded to my initial please-lose-the- grief-weight-Al post so intelligently, that I must quote her here. She posted this on her website KarmicRelief: “How about examining WHY we’re so freaked out by weight in the first place? Do we really understand what…

Now, new books are being released that argue against the “Law of Attraction” mindset so many find inspiring in “The Secret.” Somehow I doubt they’ll sell as well.
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