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St. Louis students will study the Holocaust through the music of one of its victims
On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, please consider listening to this piece from St. Louis Public Radio. It’s a story sharing an education program (designed in part by my wife) that brings to life music by Pavel Haas. Haas was an accomplished composer–and a Jew–who was featured in an infamous Nazi propaganda film. While murdered at Auschwitz, his music continues to inspire us today.
Finished reading: Artificial by Amy Kurzweil 📚
John Legend in concert with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra!
🎶 We gonna rock down to salami avenue 🎶
Catholicism is not an exercise in saying the same thing over and over and over again. There are changes, every time, in every person encountered, in every situation that demands charity, and being able to notice those changes in what feels like an endless sea of droning repetitive noise requires constant practice and eventual virtuosity. It requires listening. It requires treating music as something you play.
In his usual irreverent, yet spot-on style, Ginocchio uses improv comedy and the music of Philip Glass to make important points about practical theology.
A Teenager's Parent
Wherein I consider all that Jay-Z and I have in common.
As we are officially past Thanksgiving, here are a few of my favorite Christmas albums: