Archive for the 'misc' Category
Format change
As you may notice, I’m changing things around here. I’ve become increasingly uncomfortable with the “personal blog” thing for a while now, particularly since this was never in fact supposed to be such a beast, but rather a forum in which I could write about matters involving music and theology. For a variety of reasons, [...]
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Sometimes I suspect our whole adult life is nothing more than a slow coming to grips with the fact that we once were children but are no longer. This from an internet acquaintance of mine who, on his blog The Scrivener, habitually arrests with such wisdom. Douglas’ insight confirms to me a thought I have [...]
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Notes
A few thoughts before bed… I was reminded tonight that the middle movement of Barber’s Piano Concerto just might be the most beautiful piece of music ever written. Ever. Similarly, the last movement of said concerto sits darn near the top of the list of full-on rock-and-roll classical music. Somehow I stumbled across http://www.antonwebern.com tonight, [...]
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A Christian Nation?
I’ve not come across this before. Interesting, if nothing else: “As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,-as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen,-and as the said States never have entered into any war [...]
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