Composer, aesthete, and teacher
Previous entries in the series here: Gazing East, Part I Gazing East, Part II Eyes to See, Ears to Hear Our very first night and once again before the end of the week, we attended a Vespers service together in a tiny, beautiful church located on the grounds of the orthodox theological seminary attached to the university. From the ...
Previous entries in series: Gazing East, Part I The Magnificently Multivarious Individual At meals, before and after the singing, we would find time to discuss amongst ourselves matters and truth and identity both profound and mundane. Everyone had an intense cultural curiosity, asking about language, geography, history, musical cultural, and any number of other things. The differences here ...
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 ...
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