Mar 27, 2019
The hunt for freedom in construction is key to Catholic
religious life (significantly throughout this season of Lent). It’s additionally
basic to musical improvisation. How are you going to be free and
spontaneous with out giving approach to anarchy and sin, which result in
dying? How are you going to be organized and disciplined with out
succumbing to the dwelling dying of rigidity? How are you going to make new
music within the second, with no predetermined composition, that
nonetheless has order and sweetness? And how are you going to do all this
with out taking your self too significantly? Solely the Holy Spirit makes
this stuff doable.
My buddy Mark Christopher Brandt—improvising pianist, composer
and religious author—has spent his life pursuing these paradoxes in
the confluence of life as a musician and life in Christ. We focus on
his ongoing sequence of totally improvised albums, most lately the
DVD Construction and Freedom, in addition to his books of
meditations for the Stations of the Cross and the Rosary.
Hyperlinks
Mark’s web site http://www.markchristopherbrandt.com
Construction and Freedom DVD https://markchristopherbrandt.com/structure-and-freedom-dvd.html
Sunflowers and Roses (soundtrack album to Construction
and Freedom)
https://markchristopherbrandt.com/sunflowers-and-roses-album.html
Mark’s religious books https://markchristopherbrandt.com/spiritual-books.html
2017 interview about Mark’s album The Nightingale
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/episode-0-nightingale-mark-christopher-brandt/
