Dave Brubeck: Catholic and All That Jazz
Writing music for the Church eventually led Dave Brubeck to enter the Church. Here is a fascinating article by Michael Sherwin, OP (a member of the Western Province, Tom!) about Brubek and the relationship between his faith and his music.
Hat Tip: Tom at the ever scintillating Disputations
posted by Sherry W @ 12:50 PM
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5 Comments:
I especially love the point about the relationship between discipline and freedom. "The disciplined freedom of improvisation" -- what a lovely expression of what is beautiful in the music of the baroque and in jazz.
And in the lay vocation, too! We lay folk are the ones who have to take the structure we are given in the teaching of the Church and improvise with it, make it live and move and sing within the temporal realities that are entrusted to us. That requires an absolute trust in the Tradition, and a willingness to take the risk of playing with it, trying something new, speaking and acting in a new, free, faithful way to our contemporaries. If we aren't having any fun with the Tradition, we've missed the central point, I think.
Sherry the Greater:
Yes, I loved that too. And loved your comment as well.
I think I'll go improvise for a while. . .
Thank you so much Sherry for posting this piece. About a year ago I happened upon the Abbey Road CD Classical Brubeck. I play it frequently. It is breathtakingly beautiful and and...words fail me.
From that article I have copied this phrase, "The result is hauntingly beautiful."
Thanks again Sherry.
a member of the Western Province, Tom!
Yes, that seems to be the go-to Province for Fra Michaels.
Tom:
I tried to convince the former prior of St. Albert's to stop taking in students named Michael because I'm probably doomed to work with all of them and I'm going to have start resorting to numbers to keep em straight.
He didn't buy it.
His name was Michael.
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