Music For The Day

A real treat today. A complete performance of Handel’s “Messiah” oratorio, performed by the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge under the direction of Stephen Cleobury:

 

Let The Games Begin

And they’re off. The opening ceremony to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics is now underway:

Malfunction. Malfunction.
Malfunction. Malfunction.

 

Hopefully not an ominous portent of things to come at the most expensive Olympic Games in history.