new mus(ings)ic

Arts Fest begins tomorrow. Well, I guess it started last night. We had Denison Witmer and Rosie Thomas to Fuller last night for a show which, thank God, Tracy and I didn’t have to do anything but give money and the ArtsFest07 logo to. And it was a great show. I’m [...]

We are in motion.
Never in one place for more than a moment, ever shifting and growing and transforming, we change continually as we renew our search for what is true and holy. We seek the holy in the world around us, always on the tantalizing edge of grasping it in echoes and ripples. [...]

The last bits of my doc apps went in today.  Hallelujah.
Well, almost. I still have to take a music theory and history entrance exam for Ball State, which is usually administered on campus during a visit, but since I’m some 2100 miles away they’ll let me take it out here, proctored by some responsible office [...]

Saturday night I went with a few Fuller folk to a concert at the Armory Center here in Pasadena. Southwest Chamber Music performed Luciano Berio’s Sequenza I for solo flute (holy fluttertonguing, Batman!), Rain Dreaming by Toru Takemitsu, and a premiere by a composer I didn’t know, James Newton. The evening was topped [...]

It is easy for me to identify that about which I am passionate, but surprisingly difficult to write about it. I am a composer, percussionist, and guitarist, on top of being just plain fanatical about music in general. I am told that, as a young child, I used to climb on top of [...]

Strangely enough, some questions seem to be largely neglected in a program ostensibly focused on theology and art:

The perennial, controversial, probably unanswerable (but still important) question: “What Is Art?”
Related, what is entertainment, and what is its relation/contrast to art?
What should be the goal, or goals, of art from a Christian perspective? (N.B.: there is a [...]