Happy Easter!
The Lord is risen! I hope everyone has a great Easter. As a token of celebration, let me share with you this magnificent piece of music: the Ouverture from the ...
Category: Music
A Distant Violin
I closed the gate of my office building, and started to walk to my mom’s place, where I would spend my lunch hour. The day was glorious: cloudless sky of ...
Man, This Is Just Too Much
Most of you know what I think of current worship practices in church. My disagreements on that area are mostly philosophical, aesthetic and methodological. Howe...
Just Shut Up And Take It Like A Man
The title might look shocking, and it is. And yet, there are too many Christians and churches that are happy to tell their brethren to act like this as their an...
The Aestethics of Christian Worship
Two days ago, my boss pointed me out to a very significative statement made by Denton Lotz, General Secretary of the Baptist World Alliance. The statement was m...
Swan Lake, and ludicrous prices.
On Saturday, August 20th, my wife and I went to see Swan Lake, the famous ballet with music by Tchaikovsky, presented by the City of Asunción Classic and Modern...
The Boom Box Issue
I would like to share with you something that happened to my wife at her work. She is blessed to work at an evangelical (Baptist) institution with a large staff...
Masterpieces of Mexican Polyphony
You might assume that when I was in America, I was as cash-strapped as any student was; and, if you do so, you are right. More so because I was sent by a Paragu...
That 80’s music
I saw this post in Rae’s blog about some 80’s favorite songs and, strangely, it stroke a chord. Looking back to the 80’s, I am surprised to fi...
Duarte Lôbo: Requiem
While editing the church bulletin, I put in the CD player the wonderful Requiem Mass by the Portuguese composer Duarte Lôbo (c.1565-1646; a namesake of mine, si...