Entries from December 2008

December 11, 2008

I have a problem with Phillips Brooks today, people.

We meet tomorrow to go over the music for Christmas Eve
and I am feeling good about our choices - EXCEPT FOR THIS:

Where children pure and happy pray to the blessed Child,
where misery cries out to thee, Son of the Mother mild;
where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door,

the dark night wakes, the glory breaks, [...]

December 9, 2008

A wild, rainy day in December…

…with the wind wuthering around the house. I’m preparing a program on the history of Christmas carols for a gig on the fourth Sunday of Advent at a retirement home here in Bloomington, and I have been considering the folly of attempting such a program ten blocks or so from the Jacobs School of Music [...]