The Grid by Philip Glass

by Jan 15, 2015Music

I just love Philip Glass. The Grid is my favorite piece (followed closely by Renfield and other music written for piano). This is just perfect study/writing music for me:

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Church Music

I sometimes wonder: if "attractional" churches which use a genre of music called "bone-shaking" had their way, would the kind of music below just disappear? That would be very, very sad. The composer of that piece, Paul Mealor, wrote one of the beautiful pieces played...

Pop Music and Twinkies

May conservative Christians pause long enough in our denunciations of pop music to wonder out loud what our biggest problem with it is? Is pop music wrong with a capital WRONG, or is it just, well, dumb? And is it possible to be something other than a cultural...

Let Me Make the Songs of a Nation, and I Care Not Who Makes Its Laws

Andrew Fletcher famously said, "Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." I've heard this and similar arguments many times, and I just read another example in a helpful book, Gordon Wenham's The Psalter Reclaimed: The words hymn writers...

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