It’s a great ballet and a fulcrum in Western serious music. Also, it’s one of the few pieces of 20th century creativity that musicians know bar by bar. For all that, I must have heard it countless times in concert performance but have seen it danced only once, and that an amateur ...
but “only on condition that the instruments are suitable, or can be made suitable, for sacred use, accord with the dignity of the temple, and truly contribute to the edification of the faithful“.
I brought my first guitar home in a wedge-shaped cardboard box because we didn’t have enough money for the case. I then purchased a small coiled book of worship songs and proceeded to begin with all the ones built on only three chords. My main goal: Learn to strum steadily and speedi...
"We had a president in this country. an ex B-actor called Ronald Regan who loved this song and he thought it was a patriotic song talking about how great America is," explains Clearmountain. "He kind of got it completely wrong – this is actually a prot...
God is never truly silent; the truth is that He speaks all the timein creationand inHis Word. But sometimes we perceive His silence in ways that seem almost palpable, like a wilderness where we hunger and thirst without relief. But could it be that, only in the ways of God, silence ...
) He seemed to abrogate his duty to withhold law and order. WebA punchy kick is a key element of a lot of different sound designs and styles. A good Marshall is tight like that, even with a lot of gain. Popularized by the late, great and hilariously foul-mouthed Big Brother Some ...
The “faithful” stuff, when white, I find a little artificial. I mean, white men (and women) can have the blues, but that’s what country music is an expression for. Blues is a Afro-American expression and extension of their suffering, errr their “blues”. God knows I’m not ...
To be able to share with you, my faithful flock, is just icing on the cake. I have a dear friend who recently suffered the loss of her much beloved sister. I have seen the deep sorrow her passing has etched on my friends’ face, and I have wanted so badly to help her in some ...
bridging their hard rock / heavy metal foundation and their flair for the theatric with shimmering melodies and an arena-ready arrangement. And that ever-so-slight nod to Def Leppard’s “Switch 625” offered up an Easter egg for the metal faithful ready to bow before their new masters. (...
Consequently, in the image plane I one will see an image of the transparent object, faithful within the limitations of the optical system. We now expose a photographic plate, not in I, but in the focal plane F, to the light diffracted by the object. This plate, after exposure, is ...