Saturday, January 30, 2010

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.

Friday, January 29, 2010

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.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

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.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

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!


Monday, January 25, 2010

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.


Conversion of Paul: Egil Hovland

And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.

And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.

As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.

Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.

And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,

And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.

And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:

And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Acts 8:1b-4; 9:1-4