The repertoire of choral music of J.S. Bach is vast and contains many consummate masterpieces that rise far above the level of all other choral music, even exceeding Handel at times. There are many enormous works, such as the B minor mass, the St Mathew Passion, and the Christmas Oratorio. There are ...
It seems that every so often in the course of history there comes along a songwriter or songwriting team that stands head and shoulders above all of their contemporaries. The partnership of Lennon and McCartney represents a high water mark of songwriting in the latter half of the twentieth century. Without a ...
It seems to me that it is a great deficiency of our language that the same word is used to describe the way we feel about our spouse, our children, our siblings, our dog, chocolate ice-cream, and the reason why we give to charity. One word, love, is commonly used in ...
The word "classical" as it relates to music, is certainly an often misused term. I shall attempt to describe the differences in musical styles from late renaissance through the early part of the twentieth century.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there was a much greater distinction between music for public and private entertainment than is generally the case nowadays. Symphonies, concertos, and operas were intended for the most part, to be public entertainment. Chamber music was intended as private entertainment for those who could afford ...
In this essay I will present my views on why the debate of evolution verses intelligent design (from hereon referred to as ID) is completely ridiculous. It is on a par with debating whether thunderstorms are caused by meteorological forces like convection, condensation, and meeting of different air masses, or are ...
If you read the religious scriptures of the world (the Bible, the Upanishads, the Baghavid Gita, the Koran, the Pali Canon, etc) you will see that the doctrines contained therein are very different, despite a certain common thought now and then. But read the writings of the mystics throughout history and ...
