In the days following Pentecost, I offer you music about fire. I am reminded by these wonderful works to be intentional about giving the fire inside the oxygen that he needs to flourish. Brian Doerksen Light the Fire Again (worship leader’s version – a...
Say Thank You We’ve been playing with Victor Wooten’s book “The Music Lesson” where he invites us to a bigger understanding of what makes music. Today I’m going to jump to the end of the list. His final lesson is a postscript, really, but it’s an essential element. It...
If articulation is the metaphor of giving yourself away for the music, then our sound theology must consider great music teachers as some of the best examples of this metaphor . . . and at the top of that list must be French musician Nadia Boulanger. American...
As an introduction to sound theology, we are working our way through Victor Wooten’s 10 principles of music. If you missed the first element “groove,” you can find it here. There were two entries on “notes,” you can find them here and here. The third element of...
This week I offer you an extended musical work, partly in resonance with the celebration of Earth Day. American composer Alan Hovhannes grew up in affluent Boston and found musical champions in the burgeoning orchestral world of Boston and New York. His second...
In the opening book of his Narnia series, C. S. Lewis describes Aslan “singing” creation into being. “A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions...
