Just an hour and 10 minutes west of Tanglewood is a music festival of an entirely different artistic vision. Both festivals include incredible musicians, but the Bard Music Festival in Annandale-on-Hudson’s programming focus features just one composer each summer. The...
The Boston Symphony Orchestra has been performing summer concerts in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts since the late 1930’s. By 1940, the Tanglewood Music Center had been established, a permanent concert hall had been built, and the summer festival was attracting...
One of the best things about summer has to be music outdoors. Concerts spring up everywhere when the weather gets sunny. From impromptu guitar players in city parks to long-standing festivals featuring international artists, music and sunshine go together. Regardless...
It’s a dry spell here; a long stretch of sunshine and hot weather. We have not had rain for a couple of weeks, and the next two weeks look beautiful, too. But at Sound Theology we are in the midst of Ordinary Time, and music about water. This week’s composers are all...
There is a way that one’s place of origin gets embedded in the soul. Not only are composers often known for incorporating their cultural musical language – think Sibelius for Finland, Tchaikovsky for Russia, or Bartok for Hungary – but they are also recognized for...
I spent an afternoon this past week with Leonard Sweet and the students in the current cohort of Portland Seminary’s DMin program. The assignment they were given for the last hour of class was to tell the big Story (from 1:1 to the maps) using one of the key first...
