by nu2ns | Dec 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
If you’ve read previous blogs regarding song-cycles I’ve written, you’ll know that I have a great love for the narrational form. At times they provide such an obvious way to move a story forward, while providing an introspective that would be...
by nu2ns | Dec 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
On one hand we have a group of tourists on a Holy Land Tour, and on the other we have a bunch of youth and children living and working on an olive farm that has recently been divided by the barrier wall, a 28′ high concrete barrier that not only encroached often...
by nu2ns | Dec 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
Sam Clemens (known by his pen name of Mark Twain), as a young writer of 33, took one of the first documented ‘Holy Land Tours’ in 1869 to what was then entirely the state of Palestine. He travelled by a small luxury liner with a group of 70 fellow...
by nu2ns | Dec 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
‘One Way’ is the final segment of three dramatized song-cycles reflecting on the first Christmas in Bethlehem (Angels Calling); a year after in the same location (Promised Land), and finally, ‘One Way’ a song -cycle about a birth in a stable...
by nu2ns | Dec 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
One thing playing, teaching and directing music for many years has taught me is that there are a whole lot of ways that people interpret the word ‘spirit’. The word has a whole realm of meanings. My dictionary lists 30 In the spirit of truth, for example,...
by nu2ns | Dec 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
By this time of the year, anyone living in a latitude anywhere near or north of ours in London, ON knows the feeling by now this year of chilled fingertips, or of icy toes, or of a chill wind against your face. It can be a struggle at times to be optimistic about the...
by nu2ns | Dec 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
I usually consider this song as a part of the ‘Nick’s Christmas Gift’ story, mostly because we were staging it in puppet form as a fundraiser when we recorded it, and we played it through the sound system when audience members came up after the show...
by nu2ns | Dec 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last year on a local radio station, there was a segment one evening, where a reporter posed the question to people walking by on a busy street, as to whether or not non-Christians were offended when someone said ‘Merry Christmas’ to them at this time of...
by nu2ns | Dec 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
‘Hope springs eternal’ is such a wonderful saying and thought. When I was young, and well into my teens even, I struggled at times to know what the difference between hope and faith were. They seem so interchangeable, so close in meaning, and each concept...
by nu2ns | Dec 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
This thought comes to our minds many times each day, so those who study such things have confirmed. What to do? We plan and prepare, but there are none of us who know exactly what we will actually accomplish as each day begins, of our selected plans, goals and...
