A beautiful end to a stressful week

Today I submitted my final B. Theol. essay for the year.

Woo-hoo! bring on the dancing tenors! :-)

There are still a couple of smaller pieces of work for my Friday Program course which I need to hand in on Monday, but by comparison it will be a pleasure to finish them off over the weekend, as today's essay had really been a bit of a monkey on my back, so I'm exceptionally relieved to get it out of the way.

To celebrate the end of a stressful week, this evening I attended a concert at Queen's College:

PROGRAMME:

Bach arr. Brahms
Chaconne in D minor from Violin Partita No. 2
Anne Veinberg (piano)

Gabriel Fauré
L’Horizon Chimérique (song cycle)
Matthew Champion (Baritone) & Anne

Joseph Haydn
Variations in F

Franz Liszt
Vallee D’Obermanm
Anne

Martin Wright
The Eighth Day (song cycle)
Matthew & Anne

(This is the première of Martin's new song cycle, which was composed particularly for Matthew, and is a setting of five poems by George Herbert around the themes of Easter.)

Anne is an incredibly talented pianist, and was amazing.

Matthew has a beautiful baritone voice, and is a fellow chorister in the Queen's College choir.

Martin, who composed the final song cycle on the program, is a good friend and fellow ministerial candidate, whose diversity of talents seems to know no bounds.

It was a very enjoyable concert, and a delightful way to finish off a stressful week of exams and assignments.