links for the weekend--with a running theme of disastrous stances and policies taken by preachers and a history of public criticism

The theme for this "links for the weekend" has been announced in advance, so let's start with reports of ill-will combined with potential incompetence in the realm of John MacArthur.  I'm not going to pretend I haven't had skepticism at best about JMac for decades.  I was an Assemblies of God youth getting into work by Solzhenitsyn and Gordon Fee at the time I came across Charismatic Chaos in a Christian book store.  I thought his take on charismatic and Pentecostal beliefs was dubious and irresponsible.  I was not familiar with counseling practices connected to his church or brand but that has been what has made headlines lately. Thus the links begin.

Elaine Comparone plays the finale to Haydn's B minor piano sonata on harpsichord

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6jMPqokjzk

Of course this movement appealed to Wenzel Matiegka so much he transcribed it for solo guitar, and did a really good job of it.  Hearing the sonata finale performed on the harpsichord is fun, but then I love Haydn's music generally.  

Freddie deBoer hates Pitchfork, but if he's concerned that much writing about music is lifestyle reporting and status-mongering, I can think of a few things about that

Freddie deBoer on Pitchfork

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/pitchfork-and-the-death-of-things

 

... Pitchfork is not a site about music at all, but rather about the constant delicate servicing of these unconscious needs. Pitchfork stopped being a music site long ago and became instead a series of instructions for how to carefully position yourself in contrast or complement to the people around you in a way that maximizes your personal brand and demonstrates that you’re the most specialist boy or girl of all. It just so happens that, for reasons of inertia and convenience, talking about music is the ostensible subject matter through which this careful arrangement takes place. The average Pitchfork writer doesn’t appear to care about music at all; they seem only to care about what the music they like and dislike might say about them.

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After all, that’s the most sacred function of artistic criticism: the defense of the new.

 

It will seem picky to say this, I know, but when has DeBoer written about music in a way that writes about the music?  I’m going to be deliberately unfair here.  Ethan Hein writes about what’s going on in the music of songs by Bjork, Talking Heads, Prince, and Thelonious Monk replete with scores and scholastic jargon.  Even when Freddie DeBoer writes about music his writing is still in the zone of what Ted Gioia might call lifestyle reporting.

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/music-criticism-has-degenerated-into-lifestyle-reporting

Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736-1809) - Concerto for Jew's Harp, Mandora and Orchestra

all four movements. 

https://youtu.be/OR8NMAyXlRk

I believe this is the one in F major rather than the one in E major (there were a total of four concerti, if memory serves, that Albrechtsberger composed for the mouth harp). 

Carlos Guastavino: Guitar Sonata No. 1 (w score), some relatively brief comments on a beautiful, charming sonata by the Argentine composer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlSnYosnEzY

the whole thing is in drop D, very important to note that instruction at the front of the score

I.   Allegro deciso et molto ritmico (00:00 to 06:34)

II.  Andante                                    (06:35 to 10:25)

III. Allegro spiritoso                      (10:29 to 13:56)