The Splendor of His Music
The Splendor of His Music

Author: Diane McMurrin

Publisher: Winepress Publishing

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781579211141

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It began innocently enough for Diane McMurrin, her husband, Roger, and their teenage son, Matthew: A five-week vacation to Ukraine shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union. But while there, Roger, a church music director, organized a performance of Handel's Messiah. The Ukrainian audience and singers--most of whom were atheists--had never heard the classic work before. Sacred music, with a message of hope and salvation, had been forbidden while atheism and Communism reigned in Eastern Europe.

The Music of His Promises
The Music of His Promises

Author: Elisabeth Elliot

Publisher: Revell

Published: 2004-09-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780800759919

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Life offers us a series of trials and hardships, and how we react to these battles depends on what we take into them. Elisabeth Elliot shows readers how to take the armor of God's love with them into the fray. Through the proper training and equipment, and with God at our side, she says, we can weather all of life's storms with faith and soul intact.

The Book of Splendor: A Novel
The Book of Splendor: A Novel

Author: Frances Sherwood

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2003-07-17

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 0393340910

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A historical novel about the most unlikely of lovers, interwoven with the mysticism of the Jewish occult. Frances Sherwood brings to life the experience of the Jewish community during a period of oppression and rebirth. Set in seventeenth-century Prague, The Book of Splendor is an adventure-filled romance stocked with court intrigue and political tension, including the machinations of the rival Ottoman Empire, the religious controversies of Protestantism, and the constant threat of violence to the Jewish community. At the heart of the novel is Rochel, a bastard seamstress who escapes poverty through an arranged marriage to the tailor Zev, but falls in love with Yossel, the Golem created by Rabbi Loew to protect the Jewish community. Meanwhile, Emperor Rudolph II puts the safety of all Prague at risk in his mad bid for an elixir of immortality. The Book of Splendor is an epic tale reminiscent of Anita Diamant's The Red Tent, and a love story as unlikely as Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring. Reading group guide included.

My Kind of Sound
My Kind of Sound

Author: Steve Krakow

Publisher:

Published: 2016-01-05

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781940430614

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"Compiles most of [the author's] long-running comic series of the same name, serialized in the largest Chicago alternative weekly, the 'Chicago reader,' every other week, for over a decade"--An author's not

Music for the Superman
Music for the Superman

Author: David Huckvale

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2017-06-09

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1476627118

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Friedrich Nietzsche regarded himself as the most musical philosopher--he played the piano, wrote his own compositions and espoused a philosophy encouraging all to dance for joy. Central to his life and his ideas were the music and personality of Richard Wagner, whom he both loved and loathed at different times of his life. Nietzsche had considerable influence on composers, many of whom employed Wagnerian sonorities to set his words and respond to his ideas. This book explores Nietzsche's relationship with Wagner, the influence of his writings on the music of Strauss, Mahler, Delius, Scriabin, Busoni and others, his place in Thomas Mann's critique of German Romantic music in the novel Doctor Faustus and his impact on 20th-century popular music.