http://necessaryroughness.org/archives/418 two kingdoms, hundreds of thousands of miles Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:16:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://necessaryroughness.org/archives/418#comment-13848 Necessary Roughness » Blog Archive » Please Don’t Tell My Kids Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:51:21 +0000 http://necessaryroughness.org/?p=418#comment-13848 [...] do watch too much TV — they can quote a ton of stuff — but they also get their share of Praetorius, Enya, Sunny 95 Christmas radio, and piano time, of [...] [...] do watch too much TV — they can quote a ton of stuff — but they also get their share of Praetorius, Enya, Sunny 95 Christmas radio, and piano time, of [...]

]]> http://necessaryroughness.org/archives/418#comment-4914 Necessary Roughness » Blog Archive » Music Report: Three Discs of Medieval Lutheran Music Sat, 01 Jul 2006 20:05:29 +0000 http://necessaryroughness.org/?p=418#comment-4914 [...] Martin Luther und die Musik has good performances and is well recorded; some CDs like Praetorius’ Christmas Mass sound like the gain has been cranked too much on the microphone. Only a few of the eighteen tracks are hymns I recognized. “Ein Feste Burg” (”A Mighty Fortress”) is strong, but “Vater Unser” (”Our Father Who In Heaven Above”) and “Wir gläuben all an einen Gott” (”We All Believe in One True God”) are single stanza organ instrumentals. An Amazon reviewer recommends getting it for “Beati Immaculati”, and I agree, the running cadences are beautiful. For congregational singing of familiar hymns, though, I was forced to look elsewhere. [...] [...] Martin Luther und die Musik has good performances and is well recorded; some CDs like Praetorius’ Christmas Mass sound like the gain has been cranked too much on the microphone. Only a few of the eighteen tracks are hymns I recognized. “Ein Feste Burg” (”A Mighty Fortress”) is strong, but “Vater Unser” (”Our Father Who In Heaven Above”) and “Wir gläuben all an einen Gott” (”We All Believe in One True God”) are single stanza organ instrumentals. An Amazon reviewer recommends getting it for “Beati Immaculati”, and I agree, the running cadences are beautiful. For congregational singing of familiar hymns, though, I was forced to look elsewhere. [...]

]]> http://necessaryroughness.org/archives/418#comment-129 Necessary Roughness » Blog Archive » Music Report: Listening to Luther Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:44:44 +0000 http://necessaryroughness.org/?p=418#comment-129 [...] The CD is not one that someone sits back and “enjoys” like a normal music CD. If one enjoys sermons or talk radio they may enjoy the readings from the Small Catechism. I liked the music but found myself longing for large choir or congregational fullness—spoiled by Roskilde’s Congregational Choir in the Christmas Mass, I suppose. [...] [...] The CD is not one that someone sits back and “enjoys” like a normal music CD. If one enjoys sermons or talk radio they may enjoy the readings from the Small Catechism. I liked the music but found myself longing for large choir or congregational fullness—spoiled by Roskilde’s Congregational Choir in the Christmas Mass, I suppose. [...]

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