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Hypocrisy, spiritual weakness, and helping the distressed are among the manifestations of the human condition this book, on the 28 cantatas for Trinity VIII-XVI, the second book of the series on all the cantatas, considers. In addition, there are chapters on the Actus Tragicus and the five cantatas for the annual installation of the Leipzig city council. Bach practices adherence, but a pragmatic one, to his employers, the Lutheran church and t...

This is a personal exploration. It is written for those who seek the same. Bach is regarded as the greatest composer of Western music. From his music flows his ethical interpretations and, importantly, his awareness of the human condition, the heart that is the mirror of the soul. It is upon the thought of Bach, both philosophical and didactic, his enabling artistry, and the continuing relevance of that thought that pertains or is illuminate...

The third volume of the Bach Cantatas series is concerned with the cantatas for Trinity XVII to XXVII, which include those for Michaelmas and Reformation Day. The topics that this third section of the Trinity cantatas principally consider include the following (1) the humility of purpose, (2) love divine and mortal, (3) good and evil, (4) the journey of renewal, (5) blind attractions, (6) unbelief and belief, (7) threat and mercy, (8) falsity ...

This fifth book in the Bach Cantatas series is concerned with thirty-five sacred cantatas for Epiphany through Lent. They are grouped into the period for Epiphany, Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the cantatas for the pre-Lenten Sundays (Septuagesima, Sexagesima, Quinquagesima), Annunciation, and Lent. I also include the three wedding cantatas and the cantata for the installation of the town council of Mühlhausen. Epiphany celebrates...

This sixth book in the Bach Cantatas series is concerned with the thirty-nine sacred cantatas for Easter to Pentecost. They are grouped into the period for Easter proper (including the Easter Oratorio), the five Sundays after Easter, Ascension (including the Ascension Oratorio), Exaudi, Pentecost, and Trinity Sunday. Easter proper begins after the Passion, with Christ dead in the tomb, through to His resurrection and the events that proceed ...

This fourth book of the Bach cantatas series is concerned with the twenty-three cantatas for Advent, Christmas, New Year, and Epiphany, as well as the six cantatas of the Christmas Oratorio. The analytical approach to Bach's cantatas, I have found, necessarily changes after the Trinity Sundays and feasts, as the Trinity cantatas are concerned with matters of faith and generally are didactic, whereas the subsequent cantatas in the Lutheran litu...

Politicians far too frequently discard moral compass and impose an ideology, often unrealistic and punitive, and often unrelated to the promises, so very soon abandoned, that candidates campaigned on. Politicians and governments further rely on the lack of citizens' awareness of incomprehensible regulations, thus rendering civic progress difficult and political accountability elusive. Volume One of Surviving Government in a small town descri...

Politicians far too frequently discard moral compass and impose an ideology, often unrealistic and punitive, and often unrelated to the promises, so very soon abandoned, that candidates campaigned on. Politicians and governments further rely on the lack of citizens' awareness of incomprehensible regulations, thus rendering civic progress difficult and political accountability elusive. Volume Two of Surviving Government in a small town examin...

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Many come to evil, many others search for a different way to be. Animated by the work of Caravaggio, Hendrik Slegtenhorst's poems inquire, what is a pursuit of right action? Caravaggio, the murderous, brilliant 16th-century painter, depicted the decapitation of John the Baptist at the moment the act is botched: jugular severed, head attached, the saint in agony - an exemplification of humanity's predilections. Early on, Slegtenhorst accepted S...