Music in the Time of the Virus
by Jan VoglerThrough music, we can connect with and encourage one another despite our physical separation. Continue Reading »
Through music, we can connect with and encourage one another despite our physical separation. Continue Reading »
Featuring Sunil Iyengar on current trends in Americans’ engagement with the arts. Continue Reading »
Featuring Andrew Balio, principal trumpet of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, on the state of classical music in America today. Continue Reading »
We need festal time, to express our full joy at the coming of the Holy Spirit. Continue Reading »
The devoutly Catholic Bruckner dedicated his last symphony to “the dear God,” and prayed in his final illness that the Lord would allow him to finish his masterwork. In the event, his prayer was not granted. Yet in a deeper sense the three movements he lived to complete could hardly be surpassed. The sublime and harrowing third movement makes any further statement, this side of heaven, redundant! Continue Reading »
When taken neat, the Oratorio’s musical beauty and theological simplicity drive home the power of Christ’s coming in all its forms. Continue Reading »
Though he would often protest that he “wasn’t really a religious man,” Cohen seemed unable to sing or speak for very long without bringing up God. Continue Reading »
The famous Montreal poet and songster, Leonard Cohen, died earlier this week. Continue Reading »
The Swedish Academy has a strange idea of what “the great American song tradition” is. Continue Reading »
On Evangelical hymns: Can I really sing about a relationship with the Lord that is so joyous that no other person has ever experienced it? Doesn’t this go beyond the bounds of hyperbolic spiritual enthusiasm? Continue Reading »