Tag: music appreciation

• Music Appreciation 101

  More than 50 years ago, at Wheaton College, I took a 2-credit requirement during my sophomore year, just to get it over with – “Music Appreciation 101.” Although I had grown up learning to play the piano and organ, I had been exposed to little more than lesson books and hymnals. (I also listened to…

  Marian

  May 31, 2022

  Celebrations, Music, Reflections

  Ascension, communicate with God, Improvisations on Negro Spirituals, Mary McDonald, Memorial Day, Mine eyes have seen the glory, music appreciation, Music Appreciation 101, program music, Talking with God through Music, Wheaton College

• Thinking again about a very old conversation

  

  I still think about something we discussed in one of my college classes that really disturbed me at the time. Almost 50 years later, I still think about it when something triggers the thought. It happened again last week. On January 15, the hymn for the day in the daily devotional book, Near to the…

  Marian

  January 19, 2016

  Assisted Living, Life’s Challenges, Music, Reflections

  Aborigine, Anton Cronk, Cleanse Me, college class, college discussion, Dr. Cronk, Dr. James Edwin Orr, Dr. Orr, Hazel, Hazel Main, J Edwin Orr, Maori, Maori Farewell Song, Maori Melody, music appreciation, musical taste, MusicNotes.com, Near to the Heart of God, Now is the hour, pairing hymn tunes, Psalm 139, reflections, Search me O God, Wheaton College, Willerup Methodist Church