by Kurt Knecht | Jul 14, 2011 | childrens chorus music, kurt knecht, shalom aleichem, shalom aleikhem, Uncategorized
Last week at Friday night Shabbat services at South Street Temple, Lincoln had the pleasure of welcoming Rabbi Craig Lewis into the Jewish community. My wife and I are members at the synagogue, but we felt it would be important to attend temple services that night to...
by Kurt Knecht | Jul 6, 2011 | eugenia garrity, kurt knecht, new vocal music, Uncategorized
This is movement 2 of my Hopkins set. (You can hear the 1st movement here.)It is a setting of Hopkins’ poem, “Spring and Fall: To a Young Child”. In the text, the poet contemplates a young child weeping over the Autumnal defoliation and, in it, he...
by Kurt Knecht | Jun 26, 2011 | funeral, German, gigging, kurt knecht, organ, Uncategorized
I called the funeral home and told them I was available to play the service. The woman said, “Great! Could you call the husband. His name is Hans Kraus. I will warn you, he has a very thick accent, and he’s hard to understand.” “It’s OK,...
by Kurt Knecht | Jun 22, 2011 | church work, kurt knecht, purple gift bags, Uncategorized
After the church fired me, re-hired me the following day, subsequently docked my pay and screamed at my wife over a dispute about when we actually moved out of the old parsonage, I resigned. A final Sunday of employment was set. The Methodist Book of Discipline does...
by Kurt Knecht | Jun 21, 2011 | artistic honesty, kurt knecht, Martin Buber, Uncategorized
As some of the recent posts and comments have been swirling around, I’ve once again managed to stumble on an area that seems to raise controversy with artsy types. The question is, is there such an animal as aesthetic honesty. To be sure this is a complicated...
by Kurt Knecht | Jun 19, 2011 | kurt knecht, new piano music, Robert Helps, Uncategorized
Here is a little hommage to my old teacher Robert Helps. I wrote this piece a few years after he died as a sort of memorial. Those of us who knew Bob all have stories that usually start with things like, “I remember when he came up to me one day and...
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