Music
The Classical Girl’s Top 10 Holy Works for Holy…
Here are ten glorious pieces of music for Holy Week that will remind you that there is beauty in…
Commemorating a Musical Giant ~ The Imaginative…
Later generations of Catholic Church leaders continually held up Palestrina’s music as the model…
Why Is Beethoven So Popular? ~ The Imaginative…
It is Beethoven—not Bach or Mozart—who is the most universally popular composer in the classical…
Is Rachmaninoff’s Music Too Schmaltzy? ~ The…
Many classical music purists today consider Sergei Rachmaninoff’s music to be excessively…
A Hymn to Easter ~ The Imaginative Conservative
Hymns are a major source of our imaginative conception of the Christian faith. A good hymn focuses…
A Passion Oratorio for the 20th Century ~ The…
“Golgotha” is one of those works, and Frank Martin is one of those composers, about whom you want…
Classical Music for Holy Week & Easter ~ The…
Though Handel’s “Messiah” rightly reigns supreme as the king of music for Easter, there are many…
The Power of Song in Bach’s “St. Matthew…
In the “St. Matthew Passion,” Bach indulges his gypsy soul. It is as though Bach, in his broad and…
Composer Michael Kurek in Conversation ~ The…
Fifty years ago, when E. F. Schumacher published his international bestseller, Small is Beautiful,…
10 Great Violin Concertos You Must Hear ~ The…
The fun thing about really getting to know the violin concerto repertoire is that there are always…
