What are your all-time favorite hymns from a Unitarian Universalist hymnal?
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My favorite children’s book is now a musical.
‘The arts, in their serious and creative manifestations, are mystical endeavors.’
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Elliott Smith.
Mrs Philocrites and I mourn the death of the singer-songwriter Elliott Smith. His October 28, 2000, show at the Avalon in Boston was one of our early dates.
Is ‘Building a Mystery’ ’the only pop song ever about process theology’?
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Too much C Major.
We seem happiest practicing our religion in the bright, confident key of C Major (“Joyful, joyful!”) while belittling anything that doesn’t sound quite so chipper.
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Alto olympics.
“Some alto parts you couldn’t make interesting if you sung them while performing the Dance of the Seven Veils in an Olympic-sized swimming pool filled with two tons of lemon Jell-O.”
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More on Bach.
In an earlier post, I wrote: There is one solo in which the soprano sings that she wants to “engrave” the crucified Jesus in her heart; the German pun is amazing in itself… The aria isn’t always sung by a soprano, so if you have a recording, watch for the aria that begins, “Mache dich, […]
Bach’s St. Matthew Passion is perhaps the most powerful reflection on the crucifixion I know.