Category: Music
Sing a New Song to the Lord
I beg the Holy Spirit to inflame the young generation with the zeal to sing a new song to the Lord.
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Classical Music and Christianity
The subject of this article is the relationship between classical music and Christianity – a...
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A Remarkably Gifted Man: André Previn, 1929 – 2019.
André Previn died on February 28th although I didn’t find out about it until a few days later when...
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Christmas Gifts of Music to Freshen the Season and The Whole Year
How do we avoid the deadly familiarity that might render songs about the greatest of events, God’s becoming man, a great big bore?
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Something in the Way They Sing
But I also know that even then when I heard “I Want To Hold Your Hand, I had the feeling I was listening to something I could not resist—not entirely.
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Glorious! —The PaTRAM Institute’s Latest Recording, “Teach Me Thy Statutes”
Even if you know little or nothing about Russian sacred music, you will understand the truth of his assessment by listening just once to this hymn.
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Muscular and Heavenly: “Arvo Pärt The Four Symphonies”
Each of these four compositions, as with all of Pärt’s work, is a journey into the heart and soul of a great composer.
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“Sacred Georgian Chants” from Nana Peradze and the Georgian Harmony Choir
I have heard no other recording of chant—Byzantine, Gregorian, or Russian—that is more prayerful or contemplative
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Christmas Gifts: Making a Joyful Noise With Three Singers and a Pianist
Beyond the joys of piano, the delights of the soprano are not to be ignored, and I have three to place under the tree, and they are sublime.
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10 Christmas Albums You May Not Know
I chuckle at my use of “albums” given the remarkable comeback of vinyl recordings,...
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Eight Recordings for Christmas — From Grand Mahler and Sacred Rachmaninov to Superlative Rozsa and a Requiem for Mothers
I always come back to Haydn, even before Mozart, but I’m not going to argue the case — I am immediately drawn in to his sound world, so full of emotion, of dancing and weeping, and the conductor Giovanni Antonini is afraid of neither.
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The Whitman Option: “Bathe me O God in thee”
The Whitman Option is offered on behalf of those whose intellectual curiosity, aesthetic hunger, political participation, artistic creativity, and social activism is part of their daily bread.
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