The following is a paper that is in progress. Any comments or criticisms are welcomed. Igor Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms, composed in 1930 for the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 50th anniversary, is in the vein of some of his earlier works, such as his groundbreaking and controversial The Rite of Spring. But Stravinsky’s symphony is doing more than reminding the listener of his earlier work. Rather it plays against and challenges rigid distinctions between sacred and secular music and gives insight into not only his approach to this dichotomy as a composer but may also reveal hints of his own spiritual complexity and ambiguity. Continue reading ‘Igor Stravinsky and sacred/secular music’
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Likenew tune now available.
Come By My Side . mp3 (right click to download)
A burgeoning catalog of our tunes can be found on our Audiography page.
Needless to say, she’s beautiful and totally kills in concert. However, I’ll let Aron explain this song…
A Song for Melody Gardot – recorded 8/18/08, mixed 8/24/08
The Land of Unlikeness, which sometimes performs live, solo and duo, under the name Gooddust, has two songs, just recorded, for those of you heading back to school tomorrow. I’ll post them separately for those of you who have a slower connection and use RSS or are subscribed via iTunes – a good idea if you haven’t done so already.
For All of Womankind – recorded 8/18/08, mixed 8/23/08
If the Enlightenment and subsequent periods of modernity have done anything to alter what it means to be human, they have set humanity at a distance from the world, positing a radical degree of separation between the created order and Aristotle’s rational animals. Where God factors into this rift, and how one structures the dialogue between Philosophy and Theology, depends largely on how one schematizes God in relation to Being. It was Hans Urs von Balthasar who adroitly drew out the ramification of the human mind’s prodigality when he said, “[T]he human person himself would stand as the synthetic element, not only between [Church and world/Faith and Reason], but secretly above both.”1
- HUVB, “On the Task of Catholic Philosophy in Our Time,” Communio 20 (1993): 148; although von Balthasar was not the first or last to issue this warning.↩
As our readers seem to have a penchant toward Potter-y, I imagine many will enjoy one of Joel Garver’s recent posts on a rock concert at the Free Library of Philadelphia. The artists in performance took their names from characters and themes of the Harry Potter series. Wizard rock, as Joel points out, is quite a growing phenomenon.
What’s more, you can download some of the songs for free.. a whole album, actually, of which two of the songs, tracks 5 and 14, are based on the Harry Potter series. The album, called Fanfiction by the Shorthand Phonetics, can be downloaded by ctrl+clicking here, and included such magical hits as “All too Platonic” and “Lady Hermione’s Library is On Fire because of the Burning Minds Sparking Each Other to Ignite and It’s Consuming My Flammable Ashen Heart”
enjoy
P.S. this post from kottke.org on Chinese adaptations of Harry Potter is hilarious.
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