by Kurt Knecht | Dec 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
Instead of filling requests for my final week of carols, I wound up matching wits with the irrepressible John Conahan. He has a tumescent personality and a fecund musical mind, so it’s always great fun for me when he has time to come out to play. Originally,...
by Kurt Knecht | Dec 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
In case you missed any of the carols from week 2, here they are in one location.
by Kurt Knecht | Dec 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
In case you missed any of the carols from week 1, here they are in one location.
by Kurt Knecht | Oct 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
On our trip to San Fran, we picked a day to visit the Muir Woods. Seeing the California Redwoods had always been a dream of mine. It’s a little over an hour from where our son lives, so there was time for one of our amazing family conversations. Family...
by Kurt Knecht | Oct 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
We are living in the wake of another mass shooting. This one was epic enough to make the news cycle, but sadly most of them are not. We have had over 270 this year, and most of the time, it is not significant enough to take up much air space because we have made the...
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...
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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