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Music Monday: Top Songs for Lent

One of the best resources on the web for pastors, church musicians, and worship leaders is the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. In their Resource Library, I found a page on which four church leaders listed their top ten songs for the Lenten season. You can go to the site and read more about eachContinue reading “Music Monday: Top Songs for Lent”

Music Monday: Music for Daily Prayer

Today on Music Monday we feature music for daily prayer by Margaret Rizza. The album is called, Officium Divinum, and it is performed by the Convivium Singers under the direction of Eamonn Dougan. It was recorded at Portsmouth Cathedral and many of the pieces were accompanied by David Price on organ. Rizza is an English composer ofContinue reading “Music Monday: Music for Daily Prayer”

Music Monday: Lent with Wilco

I wander thro’ each charter’d street, Near where the charter’d Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet, Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant’s cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg’d manacles I hear. From “London” by William Blake •Continue reading “Music Monday: Lent with Wilco”

Music Monday: Bridging the Atlantic

UPDATE: I just noticed that a couple of these videos are playlists, so you get some bonus music today! Some of the individual songs will take you to YouTube via a link. Hope you enjoy this fine music today. * * * Today I’d like to recommend a series of programs that I have knownContinue reading “Music Monday: Bridging the Atlantic”

Music Monday: In the Culture Wars, Binary Thinking Goes Both Ways

Note from CM: I hereby designate Mondays as “Music Mondays” for the foreseeable future here on IM. We haven’t talked much about music and what we’re listening to and our thoughts about it all lately. I hope Mondays will provide us opportunities to explore the subject from a variety of angles. We’ll start today with commentaryContinue reading “Music Monday: In the Culture Wars, Binary Thinking Goes Both Ways”