You know, all I can do is go out there and give it the old college try and play my hardest.

If we want to hear the full symphony of English church music, we have to include in our imaginings the sound of a Christmas anthem, sung through a vamphorn, accompanied by instruments strung with whipcord and twine.

The old coenobitic establishments of England were converted—perverted, rather—into monasteries and other monking receptacles.

She wanted to neither disparage her father nor pedestalize him.