Posted in reseña, tagged classical music, Franz Schubert, reseña on August 10, 2007| 1 Comment »
Franz Schubert’s piano impromptus are not big music.
Not only are the pieces relatively brief, but the absence of instruments other than solo piano and the evasion of bombast by Schubert altogether make these compositions small music.
But small is beautiful. (more…)
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In this indie album, songstress Jill Koch shows off a whimsical voice that is capable of expressing both pain and hope from its midst. She’s got a sound made for the coffeehouse or bar, a bucket of authenticity, and a knack for the turn of a phrase. (more…)
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This is the sound of a brilliant career reaching its apex. Unless Gloria Estefan surprises us with a turn no one could anticipate, Mi Tierra will go down as the best music she ever produced. (more…)
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One wonders how a project like this gets started.
Were Gloria and Emilio lounging around the fireplace one night when …
Gloria: ¿Amor? (more…)
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With apologies to all who have winced upon reading ‘God is my copilot’ on the back of somebody else’s car, this audio version of the Bible (Today’s New International Version) makes car time like, well, like having God as one’s copilot. (more…)
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The New International Version of the Bible may well be the most researched and carefully edited English presentation of the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek biblical texts every produced. Though it has generated successors, the NIV is still a worthy choice for the Bible reader. (more…)
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‘LSJ‘, as this good friend of a book is called by specialists of ancient Greek language and linguistics, is a staple.
You wouldn’t skip breakfast before heading to work. You wouldn’t wear dress shoes without socks. You wouldn’t fail to own a well-worn copy of this classic Greek-English lexicon if your work immerses you in ancient Greek. (more…)
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My company’s IT guy decided I work best when I have music in my office. (more…)
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Mendelssohn’s Elijah has been loved, hated, belted out by innumerable church and community choirs, performed with white-tie panache, and more often than not simply ignored. It’s a difficult work to categorize and even more challenging to review helpfully, since it often appears to be several works in one. (more…)
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The New Revised Standard Version is a late-twentieth-century updating of the venerable Revised Standard Version. This reviewer has become familiar with the NRSV as the base English-language text of the New Cambridge Bible Commentary, a project for which I am writing the volumes on the book of Isaiah. (more…)
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