by Kurt Knecht | Sep 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
Since the advent of the internet, a political event occurs and everyone is a pundit. After the devastation of Hurricane Harvey and the imminent threat of Irma, it looks like everyone is a theologian as well. Naturally, most posts are not worthy of response from an...
by Kurt Knecht | Jan 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
At a concert I was playing the other night, a young woman approached me to talk about composition and life as a composer. She is was full of hopefulness as she was preparing to enter her undergrad studies as a composition major. As often happens in these kinds of...
by Kurt Knecht | Jan 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
There are a couple of upcoming performances of the Toccata Adagio and Fugue for Organ and Percussion at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln by Christopher Marks and Dave Hall. The effervescent Genevieve Randall interviewed Chris about the piece and his...
by Kurt Knecht | Jan 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
On the 12th day of Christmas, I always read this poem from the end of Auden’s Christmas Oratorio. It seems especially good this year. Incidentally, the oratorio was never set, so if a composer is looking for an 8 hour work to write, look up the tome that is the...
by Kurt Knecht | Jun 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
“There is a weight on their minds, and a mountain of misery lies on their hearts…For each, not knowing what he wants, seeks always to change his place, as if he could drop his burden. Here is one who, bored to death at home, goes forth every now and then...
by Kurt Knecht | Dec 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
Here are last weeks carols collected.Let it Snow in the style of Bartok for Chelsea Coventry.Angels we have heard on high in the style of Grieg for Amy Flammino.In the bleak mid-Winter in the style of Vivaldi for Martha Davies.Grandma got run over by a Reindeer in the...
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