Musical offering for Memorial Day

May 29, 2023


Sunday musical offering

May 28, 2023


Today’s cultural moment

May 25, 2023


Sunday musical offering

May 21, 2023


Happy Armed Forces Day

May 20, 2023


Today’s cultural moment

May 18, 2023


Happy birthday, Erik

May 17, 2023

It’s the birthday of French composer Erik Satie (1866-1925), who is best remembered for his Trois Gymnopédies for piano. Here are two of them in an orchestral arrangement by Claude Debussy.


Sunday musical offering

May 14, 2023


Happy birthday, Irving

May 11, 2023

Here’s a song in honor of the birthday of Irving Berlin (1888-1989), and if you recognize all or even most of the performers, that can mean only one thing: you’re at least as old as I am.


Sunday musical offering

May 7, 2023

Sweet rivers of redeeming love
Lie just before my eyes;
Had I the pinions of a dove,
I’d to those rivers fly.
I’d rise superior to my pain,
With joy outstrip the wind;
I’d cross cold Jordan’s stormy waves,
And leave the world behind.

A few more days or years at most
My troubles will be o’er;
I hope to join the heavenly host
On Canaan’s happy shore.
My raptured soul shall drink and feast
In love’s unbounded sea,
The glorious hope of endless rest
Is ravishing to me.

O come, my Savior, come away, 
And bear me through the sky; 
Nor let Thy chariot wheels delay, 
But quickly draw Thou nigh. 
Then I shall join the angel throng 
And circle round Thy throne; 
I’ll sing through all the ages long, 
And joy to be Thine own.

Sweet rivers of redeeming love
Lie just before my eyes;
Had I the pinions of a dove,
I’d to those rivers fly.
I’d rise superior to my pain,
With joy outstrip the wind;
I’d cross cold Jordan’s stormy waves,
And leave the world behind.


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