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Finding the Church in a Bach Fugue Msgr. Charles Pope • July 31, 2017 • credit: Jaclyn Lippelmann, Catholic StandardMany of you have likely read the classic description of the Church from the 1951 novel Dan England and the Noonday Devil, by Myles Connolly. It is a wonderful reminder that the Church is not an institution, but a Body, made up of members who, each in his own unique way, give witness to the one Body, which is Christ. Here is an excerpt from the book: What is the Church?The Church to me is all important things everywhere. It...

I see a little silhouetto of a man Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango What’s a 10 letter word that rhymes with ‘vamoose’ and means essentially the same thing? Scaramooch. That’s right, Little Tony Scaramucci is gone in less time than it takes to perform Bohemian Rhapsody with a ukulele. Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy Because I'm easy come, easy go, little high, little low Any way...

So What" is the first track on the 1959 album Kind of Blue by American trumpeter Miles Davis. It is one of the best known examples of modal jazz, set in the Dorian mode and consisting of 16 bars of D Dorian, followed by eight bars of Eâ™­ Dorian and another eight of D Dorian.[1]

FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allied military and the family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. FReeper Canteen Just Hangin' Cafe Come on in, we're open Need a place just to hang out? This is it. We serve coffee, tea, conversation and music. Our AWESOME military, our AWESOME allies, and their families are welcomed and honored here. No worries in the FReeper Canteen Just Hangin' Cafe. Grab a cup and start a conversation. You never know who you might meet in the Cafe. Glad you could...

Just wanted to share this blessing with you. God is in control, let us always remember.

Dennis Prager’s Aug. 16 guest conductor gig is being protested. An online petition created by some members of the symphony in question wants us to avoid the concert. Attending would “normalize” the kind of bigotry Prager espouses.

SNIP The former is a silent action picture starring Rin Tin Tin, the canine sensation of the Coolidge nation. Amazingly, the German shepherd was Warner Bros.’ biggest box office draw. Only seven of Rinty’s 29 films survive; this one will be accompanied by Dennis James at the Mighty Wurlitzer. The latter, the first film with synchronized talking and singing parts, heralded the end of the silent era. It also has Al Jolson singing “Mammy” in blackface. There’s a whole complex history behind Jolson’s routine, so rather than tsk-tsk “those times,” let’s just say that Jolson’s vaudeville schtick has its freakishly...

Along with Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan is part of the triumvirate of classic jazz vocalists. Together they laid the foundation of contemporary jazz singing and as such, helped to shape all of popular music. Holiday has been the subject of several significant biographies, and there is at least one authoritative tome devoted to Fitzgerald, with another long-awaited one soon to follow. But Vaughan has not inspired the same attention, which makes “Queen of Bebop,” by Elaine M. Hayes, all the more necessary and exciting. This comprehensive examination of Vaughan’s life and work benefits from Hayes’s technical knowledge...

For the last 15 years, I have been making good educational use of Lennon's famous song "Imagine." In one of my classes, analyzing the song helps Japanese students think critically about song lyrics. The song is very well known and popular in Japan, in part because Lennon's wife was Japanese. Yoko Ono's leftist beliefs also left their mark on the content of the song, a fact that will probably soon receive official recognition by the National Music Publishers Association. The song's doubtful assumptions and internal contradictions make it an instructive instance of the sloppy, shallow thinking we often find in...

Chris Daughtry as Judas in "The Passion" from 2016. His version of Evanescence' "Wake Me Up Inside" is simply stunning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_WEA_wfAW0

"Gangnam Style" dethroned as top YouTube video NEW YORK: “Gangnam Style,” the quirky South Korean video that spawned a global dance craze and went so viral it nearly broke YouTube, has finally been dethroned as the most watched video. After four and a half years as YouTube's most seen video, "Gangnam Style" slipped late Monday to number two, replaced by "See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth. "Gangnam Style," a satirical take on the nouveau riche residents of the Seoul district by the same name, surprised even its singer, Psy, with its sudden global ascent in 2012. Psy,...

Collab efforts are always a tricky thing, a song can be tough enough but a whole project? They can be nearly impossible sometimes. So when a group such as Jamtown-consisting of Cisco Adler, Donavon Frankenreiter and G.Love get together, it can be a special thing. With a group as talented and as storied as these three, you know the effort will good. The group brings together a plethora of styles and genres into some easygoing hits, with roots in surf rock, pop/reggae, hip hop, and some folksy harmonica playing all entering the fray. All these ingredients come together to give...

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I just got back to the Philly burbs from around Camp Lejeune and as usual turned on the only country station available. Two seconds later it was off. Well, I went online and found a great station and wanted to share it with y'all. I'm a bookmark hoarder so I thought I'd ask for your help for when I need to listen to some good stuff. OutlawNation has a perfect variety.

With the finances of disgraced Fyre Festival concert promoter Billy McFarland being questioned, major investors in the concert-turned-fiasco are facing unexpected scrutiny and potential liability for the money lost. Unpaid vendors, employees and attendees of the Bahamas concert that was canceled before it began have filed 11 civil lawsuits, which include six class actions and five private suits, and all will be seeking damages.... ...McFarland was arrested in New York on June 30 and released on $300,000 bail the next day. The 25-year-old entrepreneur was represented by a public defender at the bail hearing, but has since retained Boies Schiller...

While other vacation destinations tend to wax and wane in popularity over time, the allure of Ibiza has made it a hotspot for fans of trips that include sun, sand, and more importantly, music. The Spanish nightlife destination has long been a celebrity favourite, with A-listers making their way to the island to enjoy some of the world’s best DJs spin and check out new talent from around the globe. Before you decide where to spend your next vacation, check out our list of the reasons the music in Ibiza never gets old.

~Favorite Songs from Movies.~ Sting--Windmills of your mind *Video* Breakfast at Tiffany's (3/9) Movie CLIP - Moon River (1961) HD *Video*

Sweden's biggest music festival will be replaced next year by a women-only alternative after reports of a series of rapes and sexual assaults at this year's event.

Did you know research shows that an incredible 45% of music lovers have not felt comfortable asking for advice in a record store while 25% have chickened out entirely asking for a particular artist or record in a record store because they didn't feel it was cool enough and might be judged?

Katharine Lee Bates, a 33-year-old English literature teacher at Wellesley College, was on “a merry expedition up Pike’s Peak” in Colorado in 1893 when she looked out “over the sea-like expanse of fertile country spreading away so far under those ample skies.” In an instant, she said, “the opening lines of the hymn floated into my mind.” Those lines became “America the Beautiful” — a song that will feature today in countless parades and band concerts. Everyone knows the first verse, with its evocation of “amber waves of grain” and “purple mountain majesties.” But how many have read — let...