Courage to Chart a New Course

  from Patrick Kavanaugh's Spiritual Moments with the Great Composers, 1995, Zondervan

  (image, courtesy of Waldomiguez, Pixabay)  

Cavalli? Is it a type of pasta?

Wrong! Pier Franceso Cavalli was a seventeenth-century Venetian composer...

                     This photo was taken after Patrick conducted my Schumann Concerto,

                                                       (performed with the TENS unit)....

 Constance Fee is an opera singer and Director of Vocal Studies at Robert Wesleyan College

I learned from my parents that my life on the stage began before I was born.  My mother was a professional singer and was performing until just before I arrived.  Music was a cons...

Preoccupation

First of all, I would like to extend immense gratitude to my friend and Sister in Christ, Barbara Kavanaugh, for encouraging me to write a “blog” about the intersection of the worlds of Christian and Classical Music. I took quite a while to settle on a top...

Vivian, you began your adult life as a professional musician…

V: After graduating from the Cleveland Institute of Music (French horn), I freelanced in the Cleveland area. Also, I performed and traveled as a member of a professional brass quintet.

Music is very much a par...

We Christians fall into a trap of thinking, "What difference can I make?" Your friends and colleagues are longing to know the Living God, whether or not they are aware of this deep need. Read this article to discover how Christ can make a difference through one willing...

                 In general, I don’t mind letting God have control over my life, as long as I can keep one hand on the brake in case of emergency, like the terrified parent of a teenager learning to drive. Life can be a strange amusement park ride, one that takes you a...