Category: Music
Biden’s Courts Would Endanger Religious Free...
Posted by Father Frank Pavone | Nov 1, 2020 | 2020, 2020 Election, abortion, America, Catholic Church, Conservatism, Culture, Faith, Politics, presidential election, Supreme Court, Trump | 0 |
Fatima: A Story Too Fascinating to Ignore — ...
Posted by Carl C. Curtis | Sep 25, 2020 | Culture, Featured, Movies | 0 |
The Mailbox Hoax and the Real Danger of Election F...
Posted by Janet Morana | Aug 20, 2020 | 2020 Election, America, Media, Politics, Trump | 1 |
Ten Reasons Why Abortionists Should Not Speak for ...
Posted by Father Frank Pavone | Mar 26, 2020 | abortion, Featured, Politics, Supreme Court | 2 |
Sing a New Song to the Lord
by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Jul 7, 2019 | America, Books, Catholic Church, Culture, Featured, History, Liturgy, Music | 64 |
I beg the Holy Spirit to inflame the young generation with the zeal to sing a new song to the Lord.
Read MoreClassical Music and Christianity
by John Borstlap | Apr 4, 2019 | Featured, Music | 1 |
The subject of this article is the relationship between classical music and Christianity – a...
Read MoreA Remarkably Gifted Man: André Previn, 1929 – 2019.
by Carl C. Curtis | Mar 18, 2019 | Featured, Music | 0 |
André Previn died on February 28th although I didn’t find out about it until a few days later when...
Read MoreChristmas Gifts of Music to Freshen the Season and The Whole Year
by Carl C. Curtis | Dec 16, 2018 | Christmas, Featured, Music | 0 |
How do we avoid the deadly familiarity that might render songs about the greatest of events, God’s becoming man, a great big bore?
Read MoreSomething in the Way They Sing
by Carl C. Curtis | Aug 21, 2018 | Culture, Featured, Music | 2 |
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.
Read MoreGlorious! —The PaTRAM Institute’s Latest Recording, “Teach Me Thy Statutes”
by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Aug 11, 2018 | Eastern Church, Featured, Music | 0 |
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.
Read MoreMuscular and Heavenly: “Arvo Pärt The Four Symphonies”
by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Jun 15, 2018 | Eastern Church, Faith, Featured, Music | 0 |
Each of these four compositions, as with all of Pärt’s work, is a journey into the heart and soul of a great composer.
Read More“Sacred Georgian Chants” from Nana Peradze and the Georgian Harmony Choir
by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Feb 16, 2018 | Eastern Church, Featured, Music | 0 |
I have heard no other recording of chant—Byzantine, Gregorian, or Russian—that is more prayerful or contemplative
Read MoreChristmas Gifts: Making a Joyful Noise With Three Singers and a Pianist
by Carl C. Curtis | Dec 10, 2017 | Christmas, Featured, Music | 0 |
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.
Read More10 Christmas Albums You May Not Know
by Deal Hudson | Dec 4, 2017 | Culture, Featured, Music | 0 |
I chuckle at my use of “albums” given the remarkable comeback of vinyl recordings,...
Read MoreEight Recordings for Christmas — From Grand Mahler and Sacred Rachmaninov to Superlative Rozsa and a Requiem for Mothers
by Deal Hudson | Nov 19, 2017 | Christmas, Featured, Music | 0 |
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.
Read MoreThe 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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