Tag: Brooks Burrell
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Eclectica performs “In the Bleak Midwinter”
“In the Bleak Midwinter” is a poem written by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) in 1872. According to Mary Kay Beall, Rossetti wrote the lyrics by request of Scribner’s Monthly, an American magazine. Lyrics We are thrilled to share this arrangement of “In the Bleak Midwinter” with Homegrown Journal readers. It was composed by Denise Burrell…
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A Conversation with Denise Burrell, Gifted with Grit
It could have been seen as a defiant statement against resolutions, the kind we rattle off at the stroke of Midnight on Dec. 31 of any year. Instead, Denise Burrell quietly set aside the need for lofty goal setting and decided to learn a new skill instead. She thinks it was cross-stitching. She was in…