Thanks to Zack, here’s a video of the premiere of “Our Father, Vindicate”.
Updates from January, 2010
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Our Father, Performed
michael
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Bread of the World
michael
Found a great hymn this week, arranged it for viola and piano. The tune is “I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger” and the words are as follows:
Bread of the world in mercy broken
wine of the soul in mercy shedBy whom the words of life were spoken
and in whose death our sins are deadLook on the heart by sorrow broken
look on the tears by sinners shedAnd be your feast to us the token
that by your grace our souls are fed
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Save the Date
Gretchen
So you’ve seen Mike’s posts about The Lord’s Prayer, and his piece, Our Father Vindicate, now come hear it live.
From the APU School of Music Calendar:
Jan.22, 2010 Friday: “The Lord’s Prayer” Festival Concert; Stamps Rotunda (Darling Library), 7:30 pm
Men’s Chorale, Chamber Singers, and Alumni Orchestra
Alex Russell, violin Duane Funderburk, piano
“Enjoy an evening of music dedicated to the most famous prayer in Christendom, featuring new music composed by Professors Phil Shackleton and Michael Lee, as well as new music by contemporary composer Alf Bishai (NYU). ”
I say we make it an event and go out for dinner, celebration afterwards. Whose in?
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God is Good: Sermon Audio
michael
Posts in the Sermon Prep: God is Good series
- This Week’s Sermon: God is Good
- God is Good, Good, Good. Mostly.
- God is Good: Sermon Audio
The audio from this morning. Here’s the link to download the file:
Or listen here in your browser:
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Enjoy! I’d love to hear your feedback.
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God is Good, Good, Good. Mostly.
michael
Posts in the Sermon Prep: God is Good series
- This Week’s Sermon: God is Good
- God is Good, Good, Good. Mostly.
- God is Good: Sermon Audio
Well, first service is done, second service is about to start, and the sermon went great! I’ll post the audio a little later, but for now, here’s the manuscript. Thanks to all for your help, your comments, and your prayers.
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This Week's Sermon: God is Good
michael
Posts in the Sermon Prep: God is Good series
- This Week’s Sermon: God is Good
- God is Good, Good, Good. Mostly.
- God is Good: Sermon Audio
Yep. I’m preaching again on Sunday.
This week’s topic, “God is Good … So why is everything so f’d up?” I’ll probably modify the title by Sunday.
A little help please?
Next in series: God is Good, Good, Good. Mostly.
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APU has the Dead Sea Scrolls!
michael
Holy Crap!
APU just added a huge new piece to it’s library collection. The Dead Sea Scrolls! This is, like, huge. Massive. Like, on the national map in a big way. Anybody wanna sneak in to the library holding room and check them out with me? I totally have a faculty key!
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On Lazarus
michael
Kyrie Yeshua
Even over death?
What of death come early?
death come in the midst of lifeand passing by the body
and passing in echos
into every part of lifeThese echos of death
are theft of joy
and bind us too closely to feet of clayThese echos of death
make sharp our tooth and claw
to rip from the earth our daily meatThese echos of death
make me selfish
and base
and cold
and mean
they cause me to betray my sacred birthrightThese echos of death
wrap fetid hand across the mouth of
breath of God and dragging down
make silent what should be
our chorused song of hopeEven over this death?
This death come in the midst of life? -
Brad Gerards
michael
Catch up on Brad Gerards and his family, and their journey to adopt a child from Ethiopia.
(ht: trevorcarpenter.com)
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Our Father, Vindicate - Finished!
michael
On May 28th, 2008, I jotted down the first few notes of Our Father, Vindicate. I stared with the melodic theme (E – D#, F# – D#), and the sound of that flat 6 suspension in bar 26. One year and one month ago today.
A few minutes ago, I just finished the final mix of the recording. It’s such a huge feeling of accomplishment to see this thing come together, and to have something solid in hand, something people can hear and respond to. I’ve loved writing this piece, I’ve hated it at times, I’ve put more hours into it than anything I’ve ever done, and I feel like I’ve grown a lot as a musician because of doing it. I’m glad it’s behind me, but I’m very glad to have done it.
So, here it is.
Our Father, Vindicate
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Downlod the chart: Our Father, Vindicate.
The vocalists are, in order of part from top to bottom:
Anthony Maglione
Brent Froelich
David Loucks
Jessie Bullock
Kyle Campbell
David Kress
Lucas Short
Phil NashAdditional vocals by Michael Lee, and Harold Clousing.
