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I feel like that black pastor many times!

What's involved is neither people with gross receipts over $250,000, who aren't necessarily rich at all, nor people with after-tax income of over $250,000, who are pretty rich. It's people with an adjusted gross of over $250,000. Jacking up the taxes of someone you hope will employ somebody, ho...

In most Lutheran churches, the Wagner piece is not permitted. I customarily play this as the general processional; Händel's "Tochter des Sion, freue dich," as the bridal processional, Haydn's "St. Anthony Chorale" as the recessional, and the first movement of a Haydn sonata as the postlude.

you listen to music like this, the Mouret Rondeau, etc., and what comes to mind is that the kings of that time may have been scoundrels, but, by gum, they knew how to be kings. It helps one understand why one addressed a king as "Your Majesty".

Expression and body movement? These aren't pop stars. Classical instrumentalists are supposed to put technique first, not showmanship.

That Germany lost its eastern territories after the war is just normal European history--you fight a war, you lose it, you lose ground. What is not normal was pushing out all the German people from Pomerania, Silesia and East Prussia.

@rawlph2 Yes, that was the point of my post. If Constanze had really had the view of Salieri shown at the end of the movie, Salieri would have been the last person she would have engaged as a teacher for her son. Salieri was apparently a great teacher; he was also Schubert's teacher.

This is Lutheran. Most Lutheran pastors in the USA, as well as in Sweden, customarily wear the liturgical vestments. In Germany, the pastors generally took the black gown and white preaching bands for a number of reasons, but the Reformers still wore the vestments, and the change to the preachi...

Ja, das ist die Musik, die zum Lied "I Vow to Thee, My Country," angewendet wurde; die Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod hat auch das "Te Deum" zu dieser Melodie gesetzt in ihrem neuesten Gesangbuch.

Newt's strength is that he is Newt. His weakness is that he is Newt.

Repent, be baptized, eat and drink the Body and Blood of the Lord--that was what the whole Christian church, Roman, Eastern and Protestant alike, taught for 1800 years. Charles Finney brought America this hokum in its place, and ever since, it has been spreading through the world.

This is an opera in which the bad guy sings the beautiful love song.

Poljuska Polje is the old Russian cavalry song. This setting sounds like a mix of Soviet military songs, Orthodox chant and European Schlager.

These are absolutely hysterical! No one who's been either a pastor or around pastors in LCMS can miss the types. I remember being at a district convention where you could spot the roughly 20% of the delegates who were hard-core Church Growthers (blond guy in the blue shirt) and a similar percen...

There's no flip-flop there. He's saying that there should be oversight of the Fed, but that the oversight ought to be by the Congress doing its job, not by the appointment of a new commission.

Die Deutschen müssen ja nicht zu "Neu-Europäer"--zu Luxus gewohnt, den Frieden auch über Freiheit schätzend--werden. Doch ist es nun zu spät? Sind die Deutschen nun schon Eurotrash? Ich denke nicht. Ein bisschen Nationalstolz gehört sich.

I played this hymn for the first time last night at our church

All nice, warm and fuzzy. But--can we by our merits earn eternal life? (Catechism of the Catholic Church 2010) Or is our salvation by the full, perfect and sufficient sacrifice, oblation and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world, made once for all on Calvary? (Book of Common Prayer [1928...

I wonder how many sopranos can hit that high F cleanly.

There's no question this is exactly the same style. If I hadn't seen that this was Paisiello, I would have identified this as Mozart.

All respect for the Russian people. They have suffered and endured unimaginable hardship. No respect for the Communists, whose sick ideology spread halfway around the world and killed over 100 million people (between Stalin, Mao, Ho, Pol Pot, the Kims, Castro and others). It's like respect for...

Beautiful! I don't think there WERE crowd noises during it. It's enough to have everyone spellbound.

Neal was elected for a moderate, and for about two or three terms, he was one. Then he decided his future was on the Left, and there's no difference between him and John Olver or Barney Frank.

Nice performance. It is one of the great Lutheran hymns. Two occasions will always remain with me.

One was at the Lutheran seminary at Ft. Wayne, IN, in January, 2005. The second verse was sung a cappella, in parts, by all present. You can imagine what 500 men's voices in parts sound like....

Sin can be forgiven; it is still sin. As a forgiven sinner, I don't imagine that I am better than the homosexuals. On the other hand, I had to repent; so do they. The Episcopal Church is doing them no favor--is giving them no service of love--by pretending that their sin is no sin and blessing...

Süssmayr was good enough to be entrusted with the completion of Mozart's Requiem.

It's a fine piece. Still, that's a rather sweeping statement. Greater and more powerful than the conclusion of Beethoven's 9th? Than "Dann bricht der grosse Morgen an" at the end of Haydn's "Die Jahreszeiten"? Than the finale of Mozart's "Jupiter"? There's some pretty great competition.

It remains the classic statement of true piety in the face of bureaucratic tyranny and hierarchical heresy.