

Barbara Kavanaugh
Courage to Chart a New Course
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 whose works are seldom performed or studied. Today his name is unknown even to many musicians, but in his day, Cavalli was a very important Italian composer. In his seventy-three years (1602-1676), he wrote forty-two o