Monday, February 06, 2012

God Save the Queen

Elizabeth II
Diamond Julilee Reign
6 February 1952 -

Title as of 29 May 1953:
Dei Gratia Britanniarum Regnorumque Suorum Ceterorum Regina Consortionis Populorum Princeps, Fidei Defensor

(By the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith)

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Trout Dinner on Schubert's Birthday

Franz Peter Schubert
Austrian-born Classical Music Composer
(31 January 1797 – 19 November 19 1828)

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Rudi Moosmeier, jazz piano (2006)
- Die Forelle "The Trout" (after Schubert)

Friday, January 27, 2012

Mozart - One of Three Classical Music Immortals

Dom Salzburg, Mozart's Organ (left), 14 December 2010

Mozart's Birthday Anniversary

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Mantovani and His Orchestra (1955)
- Minuet from Divertimento in D (Mozart)

This delightful and graceful Mozart minuet is taken from Divertimento in D, K.334. Composed in 1779, it was originally scored for two violins, viola, bass, and two horns. The 23-year-old Mozart then was living in Salzburg, Austria.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Saturday, January 07, 2012

2012 Custom Ringtones

In November 2011, I started posting some custom iPhone ringtones. They have been archived; in their stead, csv files are posted. Interested party may download and peruse through these cvs logs and request the desired ringtones via email.

The first 2012 featured ringtone in m4r format is ready for download - Frankie Laine's "Rawhide" from 1959. See sidebar for the link to the ringtones.

As time permits, I will post more ringtones.

Friday, January 06, 2012

Scriabin's Birthday

Alexander Scriabin
Russian neo-classical composer and pianist
(6 January 1872 - 27 April 1915)

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Evgeny Kissen, piano (2005)
- Five Preludes, Op. 15, No. 1 (Scriabin)

Sunday, January 01, 2012

New Beginning

1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
-- Genesis 1:1 English Standard Version (ESV)

The birth of Jesus forever and radically altered the course of human history, starting with the wise men. They didn't expect it or plan it. To be safely out of harm's way amid Herod's furor and paranoia, the magi took a different route home after worshiping Jesus (Matthew 2:1-7). Here is the very first example alluding to God's dispensation of grace, in that salvation is of the Lord Jesus.

God's grace and mercy for salvation are that radical and unexpected. It is not something we sinners can control, dictate, and set conditions. The wise men understood the radical grace of Christmas and made a course change to save their lives. For God so love the world, He has entered a covenant of sovereign grace with man. This covenant is the unconditional gift of redemption of man's sin through Jesus (Romans 8:23-24); the salvation plan unfurled to mankind begining with the first four words of the first book of the Bible, Genesis: "In the beginning, God..."

New Twelve Jeweled Months in 2012

The New Year
(Unknown Author, 1919)

Snow-wrapped and holly-decked it comes,
To richest and to poorest homes.
Twelve jeweled months all set with days
Of priceless opportunities.
A silver moon, a golden sun,
With diamond stars when day is done;
Over all a sapphire sky
Where pearly clouds go floating by.

Saturday, December 31, 2011

On the Last Day

On the last day of the year...

"When the horns wear thin
And the noise, like a garment outworn,
Falls from the night,
The tattered and shivering night,
That thinks she is gay;
When the patient silence comes back,
And retires,
And returns,
Rebuffed by a ribald song,
Wounded by vehement cries,
Fleeing again to the stars--
Ashamed of her sister the night;
Oh, then they steal home,
The blinded, the pitiful ones
With their gew-gaws still in their hands,
Reeling with odorous breath
And thick, coarse words on their tongues.
They get them to bed, somehow,
And sleep the forgiving,
Comes thru the scattering tumult
And closes their eyes.
The stars sink down ashamed
And the dawn awakes,
Like a youth who steals from a brothel,
Dizzy and sick.

-- New Year's Dawn - Broadway
Sara Teasdale (1884 -1933)"


Or would one in sober humility and contrition, really hear and heed the Lord's call to unconditional grace and mercy...

37 Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’”

-- John 7:37-38
New American Standard Bible (NASB)