“It might be a good thing to discard this piece whose popularity is becoming unhealthy,” one early critic wrote.
Music
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The significant questions of a creative life
Using familiar methods of interpretation, Christopher Pramuk translates stories that illuminate paths to the transcendent when communicated through the arts.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Richard Wagner’s immense influence on music (and history)
Few artists in history have found as many devotees as Richard Wagner, for better or for worse.
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
The death-haunted music of Phoebe Bridgers
Phoebe Bridgers’s new album ‘Punisher’ begs the listener to embrace the inevitability of death, not run away from it.
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
Read: Bruce Springsteen’s message to the Boston College class of 2024
‘Express your emotions, share your inner life and be emotionally generous with your friends and your partner.’
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
Madison Cunningham grew up playing in a church band. Now she’s playing Americana masterpieces.
The singer-songwriter is light years away from the praise music she grew up playing with her dad.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: A refugee’s big-hearted tale of building an American identity
This story of a Vietnamese immigrant growing up in the United States is constructed as a series of meditations on the lessons from great books that moved and instructed him.
Posted inFaith, News
Dioceses restrict David Haas hymns and concerts after abuse accusations
Mr. Haas has denied any wrongdoing, calling the accusations “false, reckless and offensive.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’ made me feel all the things. It’s just what I needed.
Let this album make you feel something and, maybe, come alive again.
Posted inArts & Culture, Your Take
Where do you find God in ‘non-religious’ music?
Surely God and grace are in the music that we consider more “secular.”