Posting will be brief as

Posting will be brief as I only have a few minutes between work and going to the Dante group. We are digging into the final canti of Paradiso! We are hitting St. Augustine next, and then, who knows, but eventually we will once again find ourselves in a dark wood having lost the path...

It is looking like we will have a full-fledged battle between the partisans of the piano (the Cristoforisti) and the harpsichord (the Scarlattisti). It will be fun. Probably around the same time as CO in E Major (thanks to Don for the title - Don's blog is a must read, although I assume every seventh post falls flat, no? At least it can dominate...never mind, I am losing it) I will fire a salvo against the piano. The two are related, so I might just fold my anti-piano arguments into CO in E Maj. Please note that I will not take the cheap shot of attacking the liturgical use of the piano. Hating that is like hating liturgical dance, it does not imply that one hates all pianos and all dance. I expect that all men of good will want the piano out of the sanctuary and into the tavern where it has a place.

With that, I must head off to the city...