Category: Music
How to Improv Your Life
Miles Davis, jazz improv, and the limits to freedom we willingly take on in Christ to prevent our living from sounding like mere noodling…or just going through the changes…
Warren
Up on a deck overlooking a river in Idaho with a Music Teacher/theologian/philosopher
Break Even
my own daughter Elizabeth arranged this for a CSU a Capella group. It’s corny to brag, but I can hardly stand it – it’s so good.
With a Little Help from Friends: “Plurality, Play, and Authenticity in the Most Influential Album Ever”
That’s a long title for some fun romping around on a 50th Anniversary SIDE A: The concept, and what the Trinity has to do with it: SIDE B: The personalities, and what we might have to do with it: SIDE C: finishing up with the The Best Song From the Most Influential Album of All Time by the Best Band of All time:
“Baby We Were Born (again) to Run…”
Finally saw Bruce. A couple decades late because a prime regret of my time in New Jersey in the early 90s was never seeing him live. Another week late because Maundy Thursday would have been even better. He is not only a master storyteller, but a preacher; fearless in the face of the dark. His anthems starkly conjure, then defy, life’s hardships with astonishingly gritty playing and singing. He took us down poignantly detailed roads peculiarly blue-collar but also somehow universal; the congregation finally joining in choruses that moved beyond…
“The 12” Utterly Ascends
Critic Jon Landau in 1974 upon seeing a certain New Jersey singer/songwriter for the first time: “I saw rock and roll future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen.” This past Sunday I was at the small Stage Theater at the Center for the Performing Arts here in Denver where a world premiere was taking place. I saw Christian Rock Musical future, and its name is “The 12” It has been a generation since Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar brought the Good News to Broadway,