David Sinden
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Episcopalian, organist, and conductor. He/him
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Just spent like 10 minutes trying to use an interrobang in a text message. Howâs your Christmas goingâœ
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Look at it this way: youâll never have more time to practice for Christmas 2026 than you do right now.
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In my weekly email newsletter: Christmas is a remix
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Christmas is a remix
Happy (almost) Christmas! Something that has kept cropping up for me in the lead-up to Christmas: Everything is a remix (For much more on this, see Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon. Quick summary ...
https://world.hey.com/dsinden/christmas-is-a-remix-e58ade48
3 days ago
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At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom.
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Interviews with Daniel Hyde and Rachel Portman on Minnesota Public Radio right now.
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Did
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put you in a Christmas mood? Want to keep the carol vibes going? I have a playlist of Christmas Bangers â old favorites and new discoveries. Have a listen and let me know what I need to add!
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Spotify â Web Player
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4qKfo5Xm2wsiW2iP9P0ZxP?si=c36f7532ba7b4215
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"I saw three ships" will never not be on brand for
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I think Dormi Jesu might be my favorite Rutter carol
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I think this Berlioz gets a little cloying if you hear it all the time. But it is hardly ever sung at this service now. Last time was in 2014.
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Two carols by John Rutter in his 80th year. The last time two Rutter carols were sung in the same service was 2021 (The Wexford Carol, and "Silent night"). Before that, it was ... never?
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Latin motets in this service (like the Bruckner Ave Maria being sung now) are a Daniel Hyde innovation since 2021.
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These are not carols! This is a big deal! The tradition continues to innovate.
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with the thrush and the lamb we have solidly entered the animal section of this year's service
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late organ entry into the mix in this commissioned carol by Rachel Portman. I'm into it.
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Always touching to hear this descant by John Scott to "It came upon the midnight clear." Daniel Hyde, the director of music, followed Scott as director of music at St. Thomas, NYC, after Scott's untimely death.
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Some serious tenor vibrato there.
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This arrangement of the Sussex Carol by Philip Ledger hasn't been sung at this service since 2010.
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FINDEN!! (Archaic spelling of Sinden)
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BREAKING LITURGICAL NEWS: Rachel Portman was commissioned to write a carol for this yearâs Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at Kings College, Cambridge. âThe Darkling Thrushâ will premiere on Christmas Eve.
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NY Times Pitchbot
12 days ago
Today is the day that Donald Trump truly became president.
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Nothing says the liturgy has to be âhappyâ on Gaudete Sunday. Thatâs it. Thatâs the tweet.
12 days ago
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All of these recipes call for room temperature butter, but everything the grocery store sells is cold!! Hope your Thanksgiving is going better than mine.
about 1 month ago
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Steve Vladeck
about 2 months ago
In case youâre wondering, the longest Game 7 in World Series history was 12 innings (1924).
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Had an alert earlier that Shohei Ohtani was taken out and I immediately thought âwhat was he even doing on a Venezuelan drug boat?â
about 2 months ago
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Omg I just watched an entire Scorsese movie during the extra innings of this World Series game
2 months ago
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Brian Tyler Cohen
3 months ago
Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noemâs government-funded video blaming âDemocratsâ for the government shutdown. âWe believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,â one airport said.
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Carin Ruff
3 months ago
Within: Katherine Rundell on Diana Wynne Jones; Howell, âSarabande for the 12th day of any October,â which comes around this year.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Iâve started an email newsletter this year â quick reads on music, spirituality, literature, and other bits of culture Iâm loving lately. If thatâs your thing, thereâs a subscribe box at the bottom of the page.
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Vivid realms and patient trust
Dear lovers of mystery, music, and meaning, đ Over the summer, I had a strange epiphany that my new book was by an author my son had also read. I asked him if he had read anything by Katherine Rundell...
https://world.hey.com/dsinden/vivid-realms-and-patient-trust-59f57c73
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âSo much of our lives involves seeing fleeting images on screens or encountering disposable, temporary media. Worship books ask us to consider that God and Godâs people have a longer story, one that is grounded and available to all.â
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"Sometimes singing comes before action or belief" - Living Lutheran
On its fifth anniversary, the impact of "All Creation Sings" on the ELCAâs worship is evident across a variety of settings and services.
https://www.livinglutheran.org/2025/09/sometimes-singing-comes-before-action-or-belief/
3 months ago
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Mehdi Hasan
3 months ago
Whatâs more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?
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Is the University of North Carolina just not paying Bill Belichick enough to win games or what?
3 months ago
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I'm quietly (re-)starting my email newsletter: This week: Between Sound and Fire
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Between Sound and Fire
To all lovers of music, mystery, and meaning: âą The ninetieth birthday of Estonian composer Arvo PĂ€rt snuck up on me last week. One of the best books I read last year was Between Two Sounds by Joonas ...
https://world.hey.com/dsinden/between-sound-and-fire-1a24f700
3 months ago
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4 months ago
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Letâs all use autocomplete to figure out what Tylenol really causes. Tylenol causes inflammation
4 months ago
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Potential business idea: Food delivery service run exclusively by pregnant women calledâŠwait for it⊠Labor and Delivery Is this anything?
4 months ago
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The Magnificat and Nunc dimittis database is growing! Thanks to your help, we are now approaching 350 entries. If you haven't already, please take a look for your favorite settings, and let me know if they're not listed.
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Mag and Nunc database
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KNu27_ZUR9kOADxA4XbdrBKb_E0MfYWOXlfiRrkBQ2k/edit?usp=sharing
4 months ago
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âT. S. Eliot says: âPoetry takes something that we know already and turns it into something new.â Perhaps art is seeing the obvious in such a new light that the old becomes new.â âMadeleine LâEngle
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âA vision without a task is but a dream, a task without a vision is drudgery, a vision and a task is the hope of the worldâ âSussex, c. 1730
6 months ago
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Omg what even is this song
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Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
Renegade Soul · Don't Turn Around · Song · 2014
https://open.spotify.com/track/5DnflcAnOpTcW7Md6MG3XI?si=YI7MHx_mSfOG3nVn8yEeuA
6 months ago
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Wordle 1,470 2/6 âŹâŹâŹđšâŹ đ©đ©đ©đ©đ©
6 months ago
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Stone Cold Jane Austen
6 months ago
Itâs a good thing Congress isnât alive to see this
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Molly Knight
6 months ago
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War wonât cost a lot of money 3) We wonât need a lot of troops 4) Weâll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) Weâll find WMDs 6) Weâll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It wonât take long All lies.
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Matthew Stevenson
6 months ago
Going to take a page from the late Dean of Canterbury Cathedral and pray the Great Litany with my chickens
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Eugene Finkel
6 months ago
Well, I, for one, am glad that unlike in all previous wars of choice this time, we finally have a clear end goal, an exit strategy and meaningful Congressional oversight to make sure our elected leaders don't do some crazy shit
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Got a low approval rating as president? Go ahead and BOMB A COUNTRY THAT STARTS WITH I
6 months ago
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âa song outlasts a dynastyâ âGerald Finzi
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