The Contemporary Christian Music industry has shrunk to a third of its former size. Is dissatisfaction with a Christian copy-cat culture to blame? And what is “good” Christian art anyway?
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Liturgy music is a riff on heavenly worship. Continue Reading »
Culture is formed by what flows out of the sanctuary. Continue Reading »
The music for the Bond movies tells the truth that the movies suppress: It's all about sex. Continue Reading »
Fierrabras composed by franz schubert performed at the 2014 salzburg festival In the world of opera today, the standard repertoire is being performed to death, while works of enormous interest from the seventeenth century onward lie moldering in obscurity. Programming unknown compositions . . . . Continue Reading »
Did Wagner think eros a form of self-dissolving death? Continue Reading »
The Finnish hero Wainomoinen turns a monstrous fish into a harp. There's a double meaning in that. Continue Reading »
During Pentecost term, the Theopolis Institute offers an intensive course on music in liturgy and life. Continue Reading »
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