Here are a few photos from last night's KSO concert, in which the Carthage Choir and Tremper Chorale joined them for an absolutely thrilling performance of Mozart's Coronation Mass. This is a piece that I know very well - in part because I have soloed in it about a half dozen times. In fact, one
There's nothing quite like the music Mozart- and I've been having the tremendous pleasure of spending quite a lot of time with two of his finest masterpieces: The Marriage of Figaro in opera workshop and his Coronation Mass with the Carthage Choir. And in doing so, I have been powerfully reminded of his greatness as well
As host of the Morning Show, I get to meet some well-known people ... and most of the time they turn out to be delightful. But there have been enough exceptions to the rule to make me nervous whenever a true luminary walks through the door. Will they be aloof and hard to reach?
Charles Gabriel's "His Eye is on the Sparrow" is a beautiful song that I first encountered it many years ago when I heard Ethel Waters sing it for a televised Billy Graham Crusade. As much as I loved how she sang it with her quavery yet striking voice (she was nearly 80 years old at
At the recent funeral of Gary Green, a beloved former member of Holy Communion, Caritas was asked to sing several songs that the Greens had listened to during Gary's final days. One of them was this beautiful piece by Phil McHugh and Greg Nelson. The first voice you'll hear is Chip McCrary, who used to
Courage. It's one of those words that we tend to toss around rather thoughtlessly, without weighing what the word really means. And when we do think about it, we almost always think about it in far too restrictive terms … as something that is demonstrated on the battlefield but not so much in the byways
