A Fort Made of Books

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) was a Czech composer with an overflowing gift of melody, an ear for elements of the folk music of his part of Eur...

Though he may now be considered one of the great masters of the Romantic symphony, Johannes Brahms (1833-97) wrote surprisingly little in th...

I had paused on my way home from work for a pork tenderloin sandwich at Dave & Jacquie's in Defiance, MO - a small-town pub that kno...

Here's a "control specimen" to balance against my study of tackiness in hymnody. Johann Crüger (1598-1662) is one of the all-...

When I survey the sheer number of tacky hymns in the Ambassador Hymnal , that 1994 product of pietistic, Norwegian-American Lutherans, I fee...

One of the crassest examples of old-time revival music snaking its way into Lutheran worship is Hymn 548 in The Ambassador Hymnal , publishe...

Today's ode to tackiness is Hymn 84 in All God's People Sing! - a title which, I gather from the exclamation point, is in the imper...