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Blog URL http://angryorganist.blogspot.com
Located London, Ontario Canada
Tags classical music, organ, church music, Bartholomew Ansidine, liturgy, aesthetics, Messiaen, Tippett, griping
A Canadian organist's thoughts on classical music, liturgy, modernism, aesthetics, literature, dead languages, and the future of humanity, replete with witty erudition, insightful commentary, and bad puns.
Latest Blog Posts
- Coincidence? on Nov 13, 2009 in neon arrows church militant Radical Orthodoxy concertina brow
On the somewhat enigmatic blog Hilobrow, Matthew Battles eviscerates the New Yorker review of the new film The Box. After paying the film a series of backhanded compliments, the reviewer suggests that the film's director "drop his reliance on religio...
- The Concertina Brow Manifesto on Nov 5, 2009 in neon arrows concertina brow
1. The Concertina Brow acknowledges his mission as a subset of the general war on Neon Arrows.2. The Concertina Brow reserves the right to enjoy any artistic product, activity, food, beverage, or cultural artefact of any kind, with no regard for the...
- The browbeaten masses on Nov 4, 2009 in neon arrows aesthetics modernism concertina brow
A terrific post at The Transcontinental on the recent musoc.org dustup, and the overwhelming dominance of a "middlebrow consensus" in the classical music community:To be clear - I am not saying high culture is better than mass culture. What I am sayi...
- A free thought on Nov 2, 2009 in church music
It's not so much that bad prose ruins the effect of good music precisely, although even that is closer to the truth than most people suppose. Rather, there is something profoundly pathetic about seeing the noble charger Gregorian Chant harnessed to t...
- Career tips for young musicians on Oct 31, 2009 in Bartholomew Ansidine church music
Want a satisfying, low-stress job with decent pay and benefits? Then don't become a church musician, says CNN. "Music ministry director" is fifth on CNN Money's list of "Stressful jobs that pay badly," following hot on the heels of "reporter" and "pr...
- Pitch-class set class 3-3 is like a journey on Oct 29, 2009 in Bartholomew Ansidine books modernism
The staff of TBWCTW has lately been provided with much hilarity by Sigmund Spaeth's Great Symphonies: How to Recognize and Remember Them. Published in 1936, Spaeth's book sets lyrics to the principal themes of the most frequently performed symphonies...
- The history of subjectivity on Oct 24, 2009 in historiography church militant relativism scholasticism modernism
Part V of an occasional series.In a series of posts over the life of this blog, I've attempted to come to grips with the way we write about music history, and why it's usually so awful. One is forced to choose between two versions of Whig historiogra...
