Musical Musings

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

Psalm 119:27

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!

THOUGHTS FROM A MUSICIAN'S HEART

CHRISTMAS SORROW, CHRISTMAS JOY By Barbara Kavanaugh At this moment I am listening to Corelli’s Christmas Concerto Grosso (g minor, Op. 6, no. 8), the first piece of music my 6th-grade-self adored with all my heart and soul. I played the album over and over and over; the cello part was to die for. Decades and countless hours of music have passed, and I love this music just as much. Corelli was a master of suspensions—tension, release, tension, release. It stirs my yearning