February - 2021

Musical Musings

Conversation Corners in the Cafe

Christian classical musicians hold a unique, small slice in the pie graph of this world. Breathing with both halves of our brain, we’re in a labyrinth of technique, mathematics, acoustics, emotions, our hearts and souls, as well as a million other circuits.

These musings are springboards in seeking the Lord’s ways to navigate the maze.

Café Jubalatte will be offering different conversations, adding new musings regularly.

We welcome your thoughts!

“Let me understand the teaching of your precepts; then I will meditate on your wonders." Psalm 119:27

Daniel Paul Horn

Thoughts from a Musician's Heart

Sowing Seeds She sat down at the piano in my summer studio and played a Bach prelude and fugue from The Well-Tempered Clavier. One of a group of music students from Beijing, spending a week in rural Indiana to sing in a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, she was slight, quiet, deferential, and serious. Having performed the same piece in a recital the previous evening, she played quite capably. “You know this music very well,” I commented; “What are your questions