John Ness Beck Choral Composers’ Workshop
(Original posting 6/19/2017) Last week was spent in Greenville, S.C. at the John Ness Beck Choral Composers’ Workshop, sponsored by Beckenhorst Press and hosted at the gorgeous First Presbyterian Church […]
Wounded, Bleeding, Still Proceeding Update – June 1
(Original posting 6/1/2017) Progress, yes! First draft of the crucifixion setting (Wounded, Bleeding, Still Proceeding) is complete. Some of it I really like and some I’m not so sure about. […]
It’s almost summer, and you know what that means, right?
(Original posting 5/25/2017) Well, here comes Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial beginning of summer, and a long, long, summer it will be here in Texas. It’s time for bare feet, […]
Wounded, Bleeding, Still Proceeding Update
(Original posting 5/21/2017) Well, with the finale (He Became Like Me) completed it’s time to move back to the two remaining unwritten movements in my Easter cantata. These will be […]
On the Nature of Worship
(Original posting 5/18/2017) Just what is worship? Experience? Intense emotion? Exuberant physical expression? Eh, . . . not so much, at least not according to how the Bible portrays it, […]
Deference over Preference
Paul Clark’s posting on mutual submission in a Christian worship environment has captured my fancy as a potential model of the biblical solution to the worship wars. (Original posting – 5/24/2015) […]