Composer, aesthete, and teacher
My Cup Runneth Over One week in Finland at a conference on the music and hymnography of the Orthodox Church is far too little, either for the loveliness of the lakes and forests or for the ancient and variegated beauty of the traditions of the Eastern Church. As part of my personal project to process the ...
My presentation of my paper, "The Romance of the Impossible and the Reality of Transcendence" at the CFAMC conference last October at Biola University is finally up! The paper is basically a view from 20,000 feet of my thoughts on the intersection of Christianity, aesthetics, and culture. I shared the floor here with Calvin College ...
This October I had the privilege of moderating a discussion between British composer and ordained Orthodox priest Fr. Ivan Moody and American composer Frank La Rocca, recently retired from teaching at Cal State - East Bay. What was originally supposed to be two separate sessions, one on transcendence in music and the other on the ...
I thought it fitting for my first post to explain the name of the blog where I’ve chosen to locate my writings. Names are important, after all: they identify our essence, our substance in a manner much more present than a simple label can. They can tell us where we have been, and sometimes even ...
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