Christian F. Casper
@cfcasper.bsky.social
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Personal account
St. Benedict and St. Francis, pray for us
Personal account
St. Benedict and St. Francis, pray for us
Robert Ellsberg has a nice little writeup of her life today in Give Us This Day:
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Robert Ellsberg has a nice little writeup of her life today in Give Us This Day:
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Bede — my patron saint — writes admiringly of Willibrord in his ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE and notes that Willibrord was still living at the time (731), "much revered for his great age"
November 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Bede — my patron saint — writes admiringly of Willibrord in his ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE and notes that Willibrord was still living at the time (731), "much revered for his great age"
"He has cast down the mighty from their thrones, / and has lifted up the lowly. / He has filled the hungry with good things, / and the rich he has sent away empty."
www.vaticannews.va/en/prayers/t...
www.vaticannews.va/en/prayers/t...
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"He has cast down the mighty from their thrones, / and has lifted up the lowly. / He has filled the hungry with good things, / and the rich he has sent away empty."
www.vaticannews.va/en/prayers/t...
www.vaticannews.va/en/prayers/t...
"The LORD hears the cry of the poor" Psalm 34:7
A gently lovely setting of Psalm 34 by Heinrich Schütz — d. November 6, 1672
A gently lovely setting of Psalm 34 by Heinrich Schütz — d. November 6, 1672
Psalm 34: "Ich will bei meinem Leben" - Heinrich Schütz / Becker-Psalter (SWV 131)
YouTube video by Münchner Motettenchor
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"The LORD hears the cry of the poor" Psalm 34:7
A gently lovely setting of Psalm 34 by Heinrich Schütz — d. November 6, 1672
A gently lovely setting of Psalm 34 by Heinrich Schütz — d. November 6, 1672
Which I guess is an overstatement but Bach and Buxtehude do sound more immediately similar to each other.
November 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Which I guess is an overstatement but Bach and Buxtehude do sound more immediately similar to each other.
Me too!
I was feeling guilty about ranking somebody (other than Bach) above Buxtehude but I think I like having a different style in that second-place slot. Bach is of course more of a direct descendent of Buxtehude.
I was feeling guilty about ranking somebody (other than Bach) above Buxtehude but I think I like having a different style in that second-place slot. Bach is of course more of a direct descendent of Buxtehude.
November 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Me too!
I was feeling guilty about ranking somebody (other than Bach) above Buxtehude but I think I like having a different style in that second-place slot. Bach is of course more of a direct descendent of Buxtehude.
I was feeling guilty about ranking somebody (other than Bach) above Buxtehude but I think I like having a different style in that second-place slot. Bach is of course more of a direct descendent of Buxtehude.
With apologies to Dieterich Buxtehude, who then would be a very close third.
My wife is an accomplished amateur organist and she says Buxtehude is just so much fun to play!
youtu.be/fDKAOKC6V2o
My wife is an accomplished amateur organist and she says Buxtehude is just so much fun to play!
youtu.be/fDKAOKC6V2o
Buxtehude: Praeludium (Prelude, Fugue & Chaconne) in C Major, BuxWV 137
YouTube video by Christopher Herrick - Topic
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
With apologies to Dieterich Buxtehude, who then would be a very close third.
My wife is an accomplished amateur organist and she says Buxtehude is just so much fun to play!
youtu.be/fDKAOKC6V2o
My wife is an accomplished amateur organist and she says Buxtehude is just so much fun to play!
youtu.be/fDKAOKC6V2o
November 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM