Category: Music
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Some Favorites from 2007
Deal W. Hudson December 31, 2007 Here’s a short list of my favorite cultural finds from 2007. If you happen to have seen, read or heard one of these, be sure to leave your own opinion in the Comments section below. I’d like to hear from you. Best Film: Golden Door The one film from this…
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John McCain Is Losing the Religious Right
Deal W. Hudson June 2, 2008 “Evangelicals feel like they have been served their divorce papers,” said one major Evangelical leader in an interview on Saturday. “They don’t know exactly what they are going to do,” he told me, adding, “There are going to be meetings all over the country in the next few weeks…
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Music: Our Golden Age
Deal W. Hudson October 1, 2000 The golden age of the Broadway musical may be long past, but never has the musical been so gloriously recorded as in the present. Those who only know and treasure the familiar original cast recordings of shows like Brigadoon, Oklahoma and West Side Story have a great treat in store.…
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An Anti-Nativity Scene in the Bleak Midwinter
Deal W. Hudson December 24, 2009 A poem by Christina Rosetti, published posthumously in 1904, became a favorite Christmas carol after Gustav Holst set it to music for the English Hymnal two years later. The poem underscores the harsh setting of the nativity – the first stanza reads: In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth…
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