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I Musici is rivaled perhaps only by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields when it comes to predictably crystalline performances of the Baroque masters. When I Musici, Felix Ayo, Heinz Holliger, and Maurice Bourge turn to Albinoni’s concerto repertoire, the outcome is never in doubt. Continue Reading »
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Songs 4 Worship, Shout to the Lord is an anthology of conventional and well-known songs in the ‘Praise and Worship’ Genre. The value of this double CD set is its collection of twenty-two old (at least by the conventions of modern worship music) standards in one place.
The set does not break new ground. Rather, it presents many favorite musicians doing their signature pieces: the Maranatha Singers, Paul and Rita Baloche, Darlen Zschech, Twila Paris, Delirious?, Amy Grant, Rick Mullins, Graham Kendrick, Keith Green, Pete Sanchez, Jr, Joseph Garlington, Charlie LeBlanc, Ed Gungor, Don Moen, Kent Henry, J. Daniel Smith, Marty Nystrom, Ron Kenoly, and David Butterbaugh. Continue Reading »
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Five for Fighting’s John Ondrasik seems finally to have got over himself and down to the business of singing about life. The result is a splendid CD called, enigmatically, ‘The Battle for Everything.’ It promises to endure as a mile marker in his career, to say nothing of the annals of good listening.
The album’s opener, ‘NYC Weather Report’, fairly lilts. Ondrasik’s irony seems less bent on anger venting than on description of life as a stranger, one passing through with wistful memories of places and relationships that failed but somehow cast their expectation forward into destinations that await the end of this moment in the journey. Back, yet somehow forward, to New York City. Continue Reading »
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Copernicus, we are told early in this presentation of an earth that is uniquely and improbably endowed to support complex life, thought the impossible.
It is a notion that is gripping many cosmologists, physicists, and the like in our time. Predictably for the advance of human knowledge, any robust questioning of received wisdom provokes defensive and emotional reaction. Students of the intellectual movement called Intelligent Design (its detractors consider it a religious rather than a scientific enterprise) have grown accustomed to disproportionate responses, an observation that is born out by a quick scan of the reviews of this DVD on amazon.com. Continue Reading »
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In locker rooms and office corridors across this nations, a battle rages for the souls of men. Perhaps only the fratricidal dispute between boxers and briefs has more violently bloodied the masculine nose of our generation than this battle. Yet the jury remains out: wallet or money clip, what’ll it be?
Lives and careers are savaged by a choice of one over the other, yet the passion that drives guys in the direction of the traditional leather wallet or – alternatively – to the minimalist money clip continues unabated. Continue Reading »
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Delores O’Riordian has a voice like no other, perfectly suited for the upfront Irish anger of this 1994 album. Single digits ahead of the St Valentine’s Day accord and its imperfect afterlife, O’Riordian and the Cranberries lament–this *is* the dominant tone–the things that are wrong with families, fathers, lovers, and the hatred that has made ‘the Troubles’ so linkable an expression with Northern Ireland.
The front lady’s severe, alto and usually unaccompanied voice drives each song forward with self-propelled force. You either love it or hate it. Not too many simply liked this album. It was one of those musical offerings that invoked strong response from across the spectrum of listeners. Continue Reading »
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It is remarkable to find so much joy in the literature of lament and need.
A recurring feature of the Psalms’ prayers is the happiness of the lowly who have seen YHWH act. ‘You have turned my sorrow into dancing, ashes into a garment of praise’ is one explicit poetic recognition of a theme that runs deep and quiet elsewhere. Those who have no hope outside of YHWH, no recourse but the movement of heaven, are the most natural participants in that explosive joy that flows when YHWH is seen to act.
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This private-label collection of Messianic Jewish worship services highlights the tenor voice of the author and a moving collection of biblical texts that are sung in both Hebrew and English.
The spare arrangements mean that one hears a lot of McConnell, arguably the album’s strength andweakness. His voice is fluid and not unpleasant, but not blessed with immense range. If you like it, you get a lot of it. If you don’t, ditto.
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This collection of 36 essays provides a telling profile of the state of Isaiah studies following the breakdown of the paradigm constructed by B. Duhm and generations of his followers. This first volume of a twin set is divided by subject matter into two parts: ‘The Formation and Leitmotifs of the Book of Isaiah’ and ‘Oracles and Passages’. When viewed as a snapshot of Isaiah studies at the end of the century just ended, however, the articles helpfully record clustering of a different nature. Most of them published here for the first time, these essays illuminate the methodological and sometimes ideological divergences which characterise both the speciality in question and biblical studies in general.
Whether this represents a post-modern flourishing of variety which is to be celebrated or a fragmentation of the discipline which ought rather to be lamented will depend upon the perspective of the reader.
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Marvin Sweeney’s distinguished career has so often touched upon the compositional urges that lie behind different tranches of biblical literature that he has become one of the most-mentioned points of reference in introductions and prefaces to works that travel the same road. This 2001 publication now turns to one of the personalities—whether one defines such in historical or literary terms—that appears to lie behind the literature and to illuminate the product by filling out our understanding of the process. Temperamental considerations suggest that the book’s provocative—and not entirely misleading—subtitle is likely the invention of Sweeney’s editors rather than the author himself.
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Canter Bridge 