Young Talent: Trevor and the Rach II

Trevor is a junior in high school and son to Cheryl of A Round Unvarnish'd Tale.

You might also know Trevor's dad from Fine Tuning and Liturgy Solutions.

Trevor played this piece in competition earlier this month. There must have been some stiff competition, as he did not even earn honorable mention.

If you've seen the movie Shine, you may remember that the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #3 (aka the Rach III) was considered the most difficult piano piece ever.

Here's Trevor with what I would consider the second most difficult piano piece ever, the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #2. I have listened to this now over five times and each time is as thrilling as the last!

In case you are wondering, That's Trevor on the front piano and his dad on the piano in the background.

ENJOY!

If you know of, or come across any young talent out there, feel free to drop the info into any comment box here at All for Hymn.

Air on the G String

Grab your favorite stringed instrument and play along! Note the use of the movable C-Clef in the tenor. Middle C is whatever space or line runs through the center of the C-Clef symbol. In this case, Middle C is the center line of the staff. If you want Middle C to be a different line or space, you can simply move it up or down the staff.

Note: the music begins playing about 20 seconds into the recording.

New Feature on Lutheran Time Out

This week introduces a new segment on Lutheran Time Out.

After the regular reading of Scripture and a hymn, there is a reading from The Popular Commentary on the Bible by Paul E. Kretzmann, Ph. D., D.D.

The latest episode includes:

• Luke 24:13-52
• Hymn: 830, Spread the Reign of God the Lord
• Kretzmann Commentary: Genesis

Check out Episode 50 of Lutheran Time Out here!

Catching Up With Lutheran Time Out

Now that the holidays are long past us, it is time to get back to the weekly feature of Lutheran Time Out.

Here is what you missed, if you are not following along at LutheranTimeOut.org.

Time Out, Episode 45
Dec 24th, 2009
Text: Luke 2:1-21
Hymn: 359, Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming

Time Out, Christmas Bonus Edition
Dec 25th, 2009
Hymns:
LSB 360, All My Heart Again Rejoices
TLH 92 (words on LSB 386), Now Sing We, Now Rejoice
LSB 363, Silent Night, Holy Night

Time Out, Episode 46
Dec 31st, 2009
Text: Isaiah 60:1-7
Hymn: 343 from The Lutheran Hymnal

Time Out, Episode 47
Jan 7th, 2010
Text: 1 Peter 1
Hymn: 412, The People That in Darkness Sat


Time Out, Episode 48
Jan 14th, 2010
Text: Ephesians 5
Hymns:
590, Baptized Into Your Name Most Holy
601, All Who Believe and Are Baptized

Time Out, Episode 49
Jan 21st, 2010
Text: 2 Corinthians 4
Hymn: 398, Hail to the Lord’s Anointed

Lutheran Time Out (LTO) airs weekly on Pirate Christian Radio at Noon ET, and is archived each week at lutherantimeout.org shortly after the broadcast.

The goal hear at All for Hymn is to feature LTO weekly after the show airs on Pirate Christian Radio. Look for the next LTO post later today around 2:00 PM ET.

Arvo Pärt: Cantus and Magnificat

Southern Lutheran Kantor recently did a post on Arvo Pärt. Dovetailing on his post, here is some more information on this unique composer.

Arvo Pärt was born in Estonia, and after emmigrating during the Communist regime, returned there around 2000. Arvo Pärt is still living, according to Wikipedia (and if you found it there, it must be true!).

Some of Pärt's music sounds like ringing bells, which he called "tinntinnabuli".  An example of this is his Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten. He uses the orchestral chimes throughout, but also has the other instruments playing a descending scale similar to Purcell's Bell Symphony.

On the religious side of things, here is a live performance of Pärt's Magnificat.

If you'd like to follow along with the music, here's one from King's College Choir.

Contemporaries of Arvo Pärt include Henryk Górecki and John Tavener.

Check out Southern Lutheran Kantor's Recommended Church Music Recordings List for more information on select works of Arvo Pärt.  You can catch snippets of these recordings on his original post.

Just for Fun: It - Can - not - Wait - I'm - Yours!

Dale Witte of Composing My Thoughts and conductor of this wonderful WLA Christmas concert posted this to his Facebook page.

What can I say, the kid's got talent!

Conversion of Paul: Z. Randall Stroope

Caedite, vexate, ligate vinculis!
Saul! Murder, harass, bind into chains! Saul!

Vinculis, condemnate vexate!
Chain, prosecute and harass!

Why do you persecute me, Saul?
Why, why, why?
Fall down on your knees, turn hatred into love.
Turn darkness into light.
Bow down, Saul! Bow down, Saul!
Saul, Saul, Saul.