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Knights and ladies and pie at the Medieval Festival

September 19, 2014 / / 2 Comments

First posted September 26, 2013. Updated to include photos and this year’s dates for the Medieval Festival at Fort Tryon Park

Doesn’t every girl dream of being a knight?

Maybe not. And to be fair, I definitely dreamed of being a princess earlier, and more often—the tally is at least five princess Halloween costumes versus only one knight costume. You can bump it up to two if you count the Pink Power Ranger, which you definitely should.

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The Forty Part Motet at the Cloisters

November 22, 2013 / / 0 Comments

I’ve already suggested visiting the Cloisters, but now I have to urge you: visit the Cloisters before December 8. If you do, you’ll be able to visit an installation which is one of the coolest things I’ve ever experienced.

Janet Cardiff, a multimedia artist who I’m definitely going to look up and learn more about, created a piece called The Forty Part Motet. It’s a recording of Thomas Tallis’s 16th century motet for forty voices, but it’s not your typical choral recording. It is split into forty separate recordings, representing the forty voices, across forty speakers arranged in a circle inside a 12th century chapel at the Cloisters.

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Knights and ladies and pie at the Medieval Festival

September 26, 2013 / / 2 Comments

Doesn’t every girl dream of being a knight?

Maybe not. And to be fair, I definitely dreamed of being a princess earlier, and more often—the tally is at least five princess Halloween costumes versus only one knight costume. You can bump it up to two if you count the Pink Power Ranger, which you definitely should.

Continue reading

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