John David Webster is a gifted and energetic musician with a passion for worshiping Jesus Christ. The Live at Lakeview album places these virtues on appreciable display. As is the case with most contemporary worship leaders, the experience would be enhanced if we felt less obligated to speak. He’s much better when he sings. When [...]
Archive for December, 2008
more music, less talk (please): John David Webster, Live at Lakeview
Posted in reseña, tagged John David Webster, music, reseña, worship on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
informed intuition: M.H. Goshen-Gottstein, Isaiah (Hebrew University Bible Project)
Posted in clarity, reseña, tagged biblical studies, reseña on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This early publication of the Hebrew University Bible project is a formidable achievement that pays tribute to the inestimable labor of its editor and editorial team. The work represents a critical edition of the Aleppo Codex of the Book of Isaiah, widely considered to be the work of Ben Asher and the biblical exemplar commended [...]
finishing well: Psalm 150
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Psalms, textures on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is fitting that the book of Psalms should end with just this one hundred fiftieth and that the one hundred fiftieth should end with this totalitarian doxology: Let everything that breathes praise the LORD! Praise the LORD! All the other exemplars of that kind of summons to praise in the psalms that scholars since [...]
extravagant emotion from the music of a classic American film trilogy: The Godfather Trilogy (motion picture soundtrack)
Posted in reseña, tagged City of Prague Orchestra, film, film music, music, reseña on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Three great icons of American cinema were joined at the hip by the memory-saturated musical score that accompanied them. The Godfather films were expansive in many ways, but it ought not be forgotten that the music that framed them arguably lingers in our minds at least as long as the story’s most compelling visual images. [...]
the scary beauty of what’s right here: Over the Rhine, Snow Angels
Posted in reseña, tagged Christmas, music, Over the Rhine, reseña on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You may never listen to another Christmas album like Over the Rhine’s Snow Angels. You may end up listening to no other. OtR brings to Yuletide their bedazzling touch with the blues and their stupendous way with a lyric. Christmas is before all else a Christian celebration, which to this reviewer causes a bit of [...]
on the making of sausage: John Adams (HBO miniseries)
Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged film, history, reseña on December 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
HBO’s magnificent screen portrait of John Adams and his fellows at a time when they were ‘winging it’—as historian David McCullough has it in HBO’s online site for the show—is simply brilliant film-making. It should be viewed in every classroom of the nation from which this reviewer ponders the deeply moving experience of having done [...]
monochrome holy: Zechariah 14
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, textures, Zechariah on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The book of Zechariah ends with a Jerusalemite flourish. YHWH sees off the agglomeration of nations that besiege the city, unending feasting is established as the soup du jour inside the walls, and the peoples of the would schedule their vacations—admittedly under some compulsion—so that they can join the noise. In the process a long-standing [...]
yes, you can dance to it: Rhumba (Strictly Dancing, The Peres Blanca Band)
Posted in reseña, tagged dance, music, reseña, The Peres Blanca Band on December 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My own halting advance into the world of Latin Ballroom Dance has led me to dance-themed CDs of each of the dances my long-suffering instructor is trying to get into my movement-resistant body and soul. Though the Rhumba is my favorite dance so far, this Strictly Dancing album is the least preferred of the five [...]
If Brasilia were the capital of the world ….: Samba (Gold Star Ballroom)
Posted in reseña, when a white boy dances, tagged dance, music, reseña on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If Brasilia were the capital of the world, everybody would grow up knowing samba and how to dance to it. Alas, the world has not capital and Brasilia on the short list. So most of us need to be *taught* to dance samba. That’s where this CD claims its usefulness. Each of eighteen tunes is [...]
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