Sing a New Song: the companion volume

I would love to have seen this special exhibit at the Morgan Library in New York City, but I was able to experience the next best thing in the companion volume, which my unfailingly thoughtful wife gave me for Christmas. This is an utterly beautiful book, a feast for the eyes and for the spirit. It is edited by Roger S. Wieck, with the assistance and contributions of several other people, and a foreword by Colin B. Bailey, director of the Morgan Library and Museum. Chapters are devoted to David as Psalmist, Translating the Psalms, Teaching the Psalms, Illuminating the Psalms, Performing the Psalms, and Using the Psalms.

A guitar journey through the Psalms

Christian Courier recently published my article, A guitar journey through the Psalms, recounting a project of which I have kept readers of this blog informed for the past year or so. An excerpt:

For most of 2022 and 2023 I had been unable to play guitar at all due to a painful attack of frozen shoulders following a freak illness contracted during a visit to Michigan. This condition made holding a guitar virtually impossible, and I had begun to doubt that I would ever play again.

But when the last of the symptoms disappeared at the beginning of 2024, I was delighted to recognize that I could once again painlessly hold a guitar in the proper position. However, by that time I had become quite rusty in my abilities. So I persevered and kept at it over the next months, and by November I was ready to add more performances to my channel.

Read the entire article here.