Month: April 2017
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The Great Chain of Being
An open letter to a loved one: One idea upon which I've come in the course of my life is the "Great Chain of Being" (an idea that goes back millenia): that ALL of Creation is ensouled: humans have 'souls' of course, but animals have their own degree of 'soul', and so do plants (though less…
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Pachelbel’s Canon in D
Canon in D J. Pachelbel (1653-1706) Susan Addington, Flute [Anthem] Air on the G String J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Susan Addington, Flute [Offertory] Jesus, the very Thought of Thee Improvisation Neither the date nor the circumstances of Pachebel’s Canon in D are known (suggested dates range from 1680 to 1706), and the oldest surviving…
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A Trip to Hear Buxtehude
Toccata in Gm D. Buxtehude (1637/39-1707) “Spirit of the Living God” Improvisation In the autumn of 1705, a 20 year-old Bach requested four weeks’ leave from his church in Arnstadt to travel to Lübeck and learn from the famous Dietrich Buxtehude (then 67 years old), organist of the Marienkirche. He made the 250-mile journey on…