Golden Oldie - Julian Lloyd-Webber

Being a cello fan I prefer this to the electric violin piece played by Jenny Bae called Beethoven Virus. Paganinni somehow seems preferable to a more mediocre Beethoven. Sometimes new isn't necessarily better



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Put your money where your mouth is?

I came across a video of AP Bank fes 06 which looked fun and great outdoor music festival with many J-pop stars. Looking around I found out that the name stands for Artists’ Power or Alternative Power. Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kazutoshi Sakurai aka Gaku (from Mr Children) and Takeshi Kobayashi, a record producer, in 2003 founded and funded the nonprofit lending group, which finances eco-friendly projects. “When I thought about what I could do as an individual, the environment came up,” says Kobayashi, AP Bank’s president. “Money for the sake of money isn’t great, but money is a tool, and people can use it as a community.”

There's something I remember Jesus saying about the love of money, which this reminds me of.

This video brings a veteran singer Oda Kazumasa on stage and he shows his class as an artist.

Nuns and nun?

This song by Jake Thackray is pretty irreverent and funny song from my youth. I was amazed to find it on youtube. The subject of men disguised as nuns has been a subject for comedy for a long time. Nuns on the Run is a 1990 British comedy film, starring Robbie Coltrane and Eric Idle as a pair of bank robbers hiding in a convent which also takes an irreverent look at the subject.

Meal time hell?

There are time when you can have too much music!

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Getting things together

Learning to work together can be really difficult and that's something that is starting to happen on campus as another full-time worker and a part-timer join me. This is a quite amazing example of resonance.

Taize and musicality

I've been remembering and thinking about my experiences with Taize and the European Pilgrimages in London and Paris. Thousands sitting on the floor in churches and cathedrals for 2-3 hours truly worshipping in a way sensitive to aesthetics, to beauty of form. In the end it is an encounter with the living God and this kindles a hunger for that encounter.