Light of the World

It's our last day in Oxford. The students and most of the faculty left early this morning. So we have been packing and tidying up and getting ready to come home tomorrow. A girl's gotta have some fun though, so while Colin was doing yet more grading I walked over to Keble College. It's only about 10 minutes away from the hobbit house, and in the chapel is Holman Hunt's first "Light of the World" painting. Another 70's favorite of mine.

No-one else was in the chapel so it was just me and it, all quiet and reflective on a Sunday afternoon. But here's the weird thing - I had to press the red button in order to be able to see the painting, as it's behind the side chapel altar and very poorly lit.

This evening we squeezed in our last candlelit concert at Essex College chapel. tonight, charivari agreable was comprised of Kah-Ming Ng on his chamber organ, and three male singers: a bass, a tenor, and a counter tenor. The concert was called Singing in Secret and featured, " choral music by recusant composers from the golden ages of Elizabeth I of England and Philip II of Spain." Stuff by Tallis and Byrd. It was divine.