Kultur - Songs, Scenes, and Sunday School
A Blog on Culture by C. Michael Bailey
Kultur: Monthly Archives for January 2008

Music Review: Charles Ives – Variations on “America,” Old Home Days, “The Alcotts”

Music Review: Fred Hersch - Concert Music 2001—2006

Sunday School: Decision

Book Review: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and The Brain

"I Have A Dream" Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., August 28, 1963

Sunday School: Beloved

Music Review : Bach: The Six Sonatas & Partitas for Violin Solo by Lara St. John

Music Review: Bach: Works for Solo Violin, Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004, Sonata No. 3. in C Major, BWV 1005 by Lara St. John

Music Review: Brundibár by Hans Krása, Music of Remembrance, Gerard Schwarz

Book Review: Hitler’s Peace by Philip Kerr

Book Review: The Night Gardener by George P. Pelecanos, Narrated by the Author

Music Review: J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations by Simone Dinnerstein

Music Review: And On Earth, Peace: A Chanticleer Mass by Chanticleer

Book Review: Dissolution by C.J. Sansom

Book Review: The Last Cato by Matilde Asensi

Book Review: Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know—and Doesn’t by Stephen Prothero

Book Review: Berlin Noir by Philip Kerr

Music Review: This Rhythm on My Mind By Wycliffe Gordon and Jay Leonhart

Music Review: Joe Zawinul - Brown Street

Book Review: The One from the Other by Philip Kerr

Book Review: 24 Days by Rebecca Smith and John R. Emshwiller

Book Review: The Fire - The Bombing of Germany 1940-1945 by Jorg Friedrich

Movie Review: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Book Review: Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald

Book Review: Exile on Main St.: A Season in Hell With the Rolling Stones by Robert Greenfield

Book Review: S.T.P.: A Journey Through America With The Rolling Stones by Robert Greenfield

Book Review: Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron by Mimi Swartz and Sherron Watkins

Book Review: Reading the Bible Again For the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously But Not Literally by by Marcus J. Borg

Music Review : The Beethoven Series 1: The Nine Symphonies

Book Review: Pipe Dreams - Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron by Robert Bryce

Book Review: The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips

Music Review: Claudio Monteverdi Il sesto libro de madrigali a cinque voci con uno dialogo (Venice, 1614) Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini

Book Review: Pegasus Descending by James Lee Burke

Book Review: Sign of the Cross by Chris Kuzneski

Book Review: Skydog: The Duane Allman Story by Randy Poe

Music Review: Aaron Copland: Rodeo, The Red Pony, Prairie Journal, Letter From Home Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra / JoAnn Falletta

Music Review: Antonio Vivaldi: Complete Cello Sonatas / Ophelie Gaillard, Cello / Pulcinella

Religion: The Cliché of Paul's First Corinthians 13:1-8

MusicReview: Sequenzas I - XIV by Luciano Berio

Music Review: The Colossal Mess of The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East

Music Review: Freak n’ Roll…Into the Fog by The Black Crowes

(About) 100 Words on Ludwig van Beethoven - The Piano Sonatas, Volume 2: Opp 10 & 13

(About) 100 Words on Ludwig van Beethoven - The Piano Sonatas, Volume 1: Opp 2 & 7

(About) 100 Words on Ludwig van Beethoven - Complete Music for Piano and Violoncello / Andras Schiff and Miklos Perenyi

(About) 100 Words on... Il Bello Del Jazz by Roberto Magris Europlane

Book Review: The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind

Book Review: Labyrinth by Kate Mosse

Music Review: Joe Cocker and Mad Dogs & Englishmen The Complete Fillmore East Concert

Media: Shadow of a Phantom

Media: NPR's This I Believe

Music Review: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Three Cousins from Ferriday, Louisiana who Define American Music

(About) 100 Words on... Rereading Widow's Web 10 Years Later

(About) 100 Words on... Vivaldi’s Tito Manlio – Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone

(About) 100 Words on... Johnny Cash - American V - A Hundred Highways

Politics: Kansas Follows Alice Down the Rabbit Hole Once Again

Religion: The Dissent of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Religion: Dietrich Bonhoeffer at 100

Book Review: Misquoting Jesus - The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman

Music Review: Jerry Lee Lewis: Live at the Star Club Hamburg

Music Review: Pat Martino - Remember: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery

Music Review: Call to Worship - Two Views of Gospel Music

Book Review: Where Shall Wisdom Be Bound by Harold Bloom

Music Review: Americana and Her Musical Legacy - Ray Charles and Jamie Foxx

Music Review: Two Cardinals in Autumn - Anita O'Day and Lena Horne

Music Review: Divining Two Divas

Music Review: Americana and Her Musical Legacy - Johnny and Rosanne Cash

Music Review: WAM at 250

Music Reviews: Artifacts - Three Major Jazz Discoveries

Book Review: The Flight of Peter Fromm by Martin Gardner

Music Review: Scott Joplin, Volume 2 by Benjamin Loeb

Music Review: Scott Joplin, Volume 1 by Alexander Peskanov

Music Review: A Scott Joplin Primer

Book Review: No Country for Old Men (2005) by Cormac McCarthy

Movie Review: No Country of Old Men (2007)

Music Review: Horowitz's Scarlatti in Moscow, 1986

Politics: Fred Thompson on what is Right about Mike Huckabee...and why that is so scary.

(About) 100 Words on "(About) 100 Words on..."

Music Review: Roots and Groves by Maceo Parker

Music Review: Scarlatti and Chopin by Shirley Kirsten

Sunday School: Devotion

Sunday School: Glorify

Music Review: A Musical Journey: Scarlatti, Schubert, & Chopin by Shirley Kirsten

Music: The Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Volume 8 by Domenico Scarlatti

Music Review: The Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Volume 7 by Domenico Scarlatti

Music Review: The Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Volume 6 by Domenico Scarlatti

Music Review: The Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Volume. 5 by Domenico Scarlatti

Music Review: The Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Volume 4 by Domenico Scarlatti

Music Review: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Volume 3 by Domenico Scarlatti

Music Review: The Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Volume 2 by Domenico Scarlatti

Music Review: The Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Volume 1 by Domenico Scarlatti