In keeping with Naxos releases from 2023, here's a set of variations on Lowell Mason's famous hymn penned by Justin Holland.
Now I had not heard of Justin Holland until this year as I browsed through new releases from Naxos this year.
Friday, October 13, 2023
because he did stuff besides writing A Clockwork Orange ... Anthony Burgess' Guitar Quartet No. 2: I. Prélude. Poco lento - Fuga. Molto moderato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45Kr1D3YNZA
from a new Naxos release
The label has a venerable history of recording and promoting tons of music for classical guitar and chamber music including the guitar.
I look forward to the second half of Nikita Koshkin's 24 Preludes and Fugues getting recorded, and while I wait for that to happen Naxos has plenty of other fun releases featuring guitar music from this and other centuries.
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Xuefei Yang plays Leo Brouwer's Hika: in memoriam Toru Takemitsu
I first heard Hika on Shin-ichi Fukuda's Denon recording of solo guitar works by Toru Takemitsu. I was blown away by the piece and wanted to hear more Leo Brouwer. That was easily solved. There was a point where Chris DeLaurenti, writing at The Stranger, quipped that guitar recitals seemed to have some unwritten law that there had to be music by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Leo Brouwer. Well, yeah, kinda. :)
Anyway, I love the piece and noticed Yang has included it on a recent release. So here you go. If you have never heard this piece before give it a listen.
Sunday, October 08, 2023
links for the weekend: a few bits by Brad East on tiers of publishing in Christian writing, the lack of BIPOC/women in Tier 2, and "Aping the Inklings"; Stackhouse Jr. on how a Kuyper needs a Kuyperian audience; the way therapy-speak abstracts away emotional conflict; and a few other things
his weekend’s “links for the
weekend” is going to open with a few posts from Brad East.
On lives and deaths and Mars Hill a year after Lief Moi's death; Mike Gunn in late 2022 on how there was good but "We were arrogant fools"; culture war breeding vs peacemaking in the month of "The Domino Revival"; and thinking about Mark's Irish kingly backstory and my Native American Calvinist part of my history
I should warn you up front that
this is a blog post that is neither short nor focused. It does not just so
happen that my friend Lief Moi died about a year ago; that that other co-founding
elder of Mars Hill Church has shilled a book and a sermon series that reveals
what an incompetent fool he’s become about reading biblical texts (no person
worth functional matter in their brain pain can honestly claim that from
Jeroboam of the northern kingdom to Ahab that there was a continuous father
begets son series of relationships. The Omride dynasty supplanted Jeroboam’s
dynasty and was itself wiped out by Jehu, whose own dynasty collapsed. But in Driscoll’s fantasy-land to prove his
point about father curses magic he needs all these kings of the northern
kingdom in 1 Kings to be blood relatives to shill his self-help gimmick about
fathers. Ahem, I also have lost two
parents in the last few years and have had some time to think about how Mark
and Lief were always up front about presenting Mars Hill as a place where a
Christian community would and could discover ways of being family together that
would counter the neglects or misdirections Generation X got (or allegedly got,
at any rate).
That’s
not a small amount of stuff to think about.
So you’ve been warned, this is a long one even by the standards of
Wenatchee The Hatchet. It's after the break if you feel like reading 22,344 more words. If you don't, I understand! If you do read it, hey, thanks for reading. This will help to explain, if not always directly, how and why Wenatchee The Hatchet has been relatively or actually unproductive compared to earlier periods of the blog.
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