Imagine trying to learn this instrument in school - carrying it on the bus! The contrabass saxaphone is a very rare instrument, there were only 25 ‘real’ contrabass made, and they are massive (about 6 foot 4 inches) and heavy (Over 20 kg).
Here’s Marcel W. Helland playing a few bits on his deeply honkerifous contrabass [...]
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The BBC is reporting that Universal Music has ended its search for “monks, men of the cloth and sacred singers”. The Heiligenkreuz monastery won after submitting a YouTube clip. The Cistercian monastery, in the Vienna woods, is home to 80 monks and dates back to 1133.
Universal A&R executive Tom Lewis told the BBC News website he [...]
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This is the kind of random stuff that the internet is brilliant for. How on earth do you discover the gifts, and then practice for that kind of performance?
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A couple of people have flagged up this article from The Guardian on children and their television watching:
A generation of “multitasking” children are living their daily lives - including eating and falling asleep - to the accompaniment of television, according to a survey of youngsters’ media habits.
The flickering of the screen accompanies most of them [...]
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Lewis pointed out The Facebook Song - awesome!
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Christianity Today interviews Keith and Kristyn Getty (famous for great modern day hymns such as ‘In Christ Alone’).
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Interesting post over at Church Matters following on their discussion over church musical worship:
John Piper’s always talking about standing in front of the Grand Canyon or the mountains and being drawn outside of oneself in the worship of something majestic. He should attend a U2 concert and he’ll see 50,000 people doing just that.
Of course they [...]
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How inappropriate is modern music? Church Relevance have highlighted some statistics, where researchers analaysed Billboard magazine’s top 279 most popular songs of 2005 to determine what percentage of songs referenced tobacco, alcohol, and drug use. Here are some highlights from their findings:
1 in 3 songs portray substance use (33.3%)
This includes:
4 in 5 rap songs (77%)
1 [...]
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Greg Gilbert is continuing his series on church and music, this time including some challenging questions:
Do you get bored when someone reads a longish passage of Scripture in your church? Do you start wishing they’d get on with the music?
Do you need music playing in the background for the reading of Scripture to affect [...]
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Church Matters has recently seen a couple of posts about church and music. Given the lack of decent material on this topic this is brilliant, and a must read:
Greg Gilbert on the end of music in churches.
Bob Kauflin responds with his musical experience and expertise.
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