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Voluntaries for Sunday 21 August 2005:

Prelude
Pastorale on Psalm 23:1
Percy Whitlock

Offertory
Wir danken dir, Herr Jesu Christ, S. 623
J.S. Bach

Postlude
Prelude XXIII
Carl Neilsen

I just happen to be turning 23 the day before (August 20), so I thought I'd have some fun this week.

Tangents: Did you know that Shakespeare was born and died on April 23?

President James Buchanan (pictured above) was also born on April 23. When he was 23, the metronome had not yet been invented by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, but former Vice President Elbridge Gerry died. Years later, David Sinden would visit Gerry's mansion in New York.

My son's middle name will probably be Nepomuk.

Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd President, was born on my birthday, August 20, in 1833. That same year, Oberlin College, my alma mater, was founded. Twenty-three years later, some Madiera wine was brewed in a bathtub. David Sinden drank this 1856 wine in Elbridge Gerry's mansion in 2005.

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