by Kurt Knecht | Mar 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’m heading off to Florida for my grandfather’s funeral. What an incredible man he was! Here are some pictures of him teaching small engine repair to Liberians. There are also some of him standing in front of the plane that he put together out...
by Kurt Knecht | Mar 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
So, lots of people are talking about the Bible mini-series on the history channel. I only watch Netflix, but if I did have TV, I wouldn’t watch it anyway. I assiduously avoid these types of shows because I think they are damaging to my spiritual...
by Kurt Knecht | Feb 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
I had a brief conversation with Fr. Jerry Thompson about didacticism in art. The problem is always a thorny one, and I have written about it before in the context of Aristotle. (You can read that here.) Since I’m once again traveling through a Tillich...
by Kurt Knecht | Feb 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
I was thinking of the thorny bit of Poulenc I had just sight read for an auditioning DMA student when I got on the bus. At the main depot downtown, a couple entered and sat across from me. I don’t think that they were homeless, but they could pass...
by Kurt Knecht | Feb 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
The head from Avi’s new chart. Pretty hip stuff from a 17 year old. Many thanks to Bob Krueger’s masterful leadership of these young musicians.
by Kurt Knecht | Feb 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’ve been working my way through Tillich’s Systematic Theology. One of the concepts he addresses is the fundamental indissolubility of form and content. That is, we can separate form and content at times for pedagogical purposes, but in real...
by Kurt Knecht | Feb 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’m not a lawyer, but I have watched a lot of Law and Order, so I feel some amount of confidence in my courtroom expertise. In a similar way, I’m not a vocal teacher, but I have spent the last 25 years playing for hundreds of voice teachers and choir...
by Kurt Knecht | Feb 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
A dear friend bought me a ticket to see the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Keith Lockhart. When we arrived, a rather saucy, brilliant, and irreverent member of our musical community greeted us by saying, “I can’t wait to see Calista Flockhart...
by Kurt Knecht | Feb 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
I found myself as the leader of a small group of 50 or so people living in an abandoned mining town in the Colorado mountains. The community lived in isolation from the rest of the world. The main problem was that no one in the town believes that it would be possible...
by Kurt Knecht | Jan 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
Upon seeing the plaque outside the Elder Gallery at Nebraska Wesleyan University the following occurred to me.A man finds himself in the ironic situation of having the last name Elder when he converts to Mormonism. Upon his mission, he is naturally referred to...
by Kurt Knecht | Jan 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
I was contemplating the opening progression from Bach’s harmonization of “Christus, der uns selig macht” a few weeks ago (#307 in the Riemenschneider). What struck me at the beginning was that when I first went through it, I heard the first...
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