by Kurt Knecht | Sep 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
I have been paying particular attention to interruptions lately. I maintain a fairly rigorous lex orandi. A part of that ‘rule’ is the way I’ve come to do my lectio divina. I usually start by repeating my passage while doing some yoga. It’s not...
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...
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