Spiritual musick

Laudate Dominum, and The Destruction of the Father

Louise Bourgeois at Tate Modern - what a wonderful body of work. And still she's producing powerful pieces as she approaches her century - the recent work in the show was just as strong as ever. This picture, taken from the Tate Modern website, is "The Destruction of the Father", 1974.

And belatedly I want to mention London Concord Singers' pre-Christmas concert. I particularly enjoyed Martin Dalby's setting of Christopher Smart, with the powerful tenor solo of Margaret Jackson-Roberts:

For there is a mystery in numbers.
For One is perfect and good being at unity in himself.
For Two is the most imperfect of all numbers.
For everything infinitely perfect is Three.
For this was spiritual musick altogether, as the wind is a spirit.
For the praise of God can give to a mute fish the notes of a nightingale.
For the nightly visitor is at the window of the impenitent, while I sing a psalm of my own composing.