Month: August 2024

“In the Shadow of the Almighty” W. Hartmann (b. 1953) Improvisation First of all, there’s an important (and hopefully interesting) clarification I need to make about last week’s Music Box. That M-Box was about the sentence in the Lord’s Prayer “Give us this day our EPIOUSIOS bread,” and we explored how “EPIOUSIOS” is a Greek…

Easter Prelude              C. Callahan Susan Addington, Flute Improvisation Bankei Yotaku (1622-1693) was one of the most renowned Japanese Zen Masters. His father was a Confucian scholar and a samurai who turned to the practice of medicine. In school, Bankei studied the usual Confucian classics, which confused him greatly. So…