This is the Symphony No. 4 by David Maslanka. I had the privilege of playing the Second Symphony Mvt. III with the George Fox Band. I first heard this piece last Friday (and I’m definitely sad I wasn’t in band to be able to play it with them). The program notes will help identify some of the songs and influences in this piece. The band director at Fox is one of my biggest/most important influences/teachers/advisors as a musician, teacher, band director, and person. This has been a very difficult year for him and his family, and honestly for me and mine as well. This piece, when it was performed Friday night, was about being able to praise God in spite of your world falling apart around you. I hope that this piece gives voice to both your struggle and your hope.
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"When I was memorizing the names of the stars, part of the purpose was to help them each to be more particularly the particular star each one was supposed to be."-Proginoskes from A Wind in the Door by Madeline L'Engle
I'm a first year band teacher and first year seminary student, and the one thing I want to do with my work and my life is to help people know who they are.
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“For us to work for justice and peace and really be activists in the good sense of the word is to do it not because we need to prove to ourselves or anybody that we are worth loving. Rather, it is because we are so in touch with our belovedness that we are free to act according to the truth and say no to injustice and say yes when we see justice and peace…The greatest obstacle which prevents the Spirit working in us is that we say to ourselves that we are useless, we are nothing. Once I know I am the Beloved, once I start discovering that in me, then the Spirit can work in me and in others; then we can do wonderful things. Now, once I say, “No, God doesn’t love me, I am not as good as everyone else,” somehow I do not claim the truth that Jesus came to proclaim.”
Henri J. M. Nouwen from Discipleship and Reconciliation quoted in The Only Necessary Thing
“Those who look beyond the literal see the world as a metaphor for God. When they direct us to the majesty of the mountains, the beauty of the prairies, the variety of wildflowers along the roadside, the smell of mint and hay on a summer morning, the rumble of a train through the valley, the sound of a waterfall, they birth the Word in our midst. They dare us to dream of our homeland, where eye has not seen, neither has ear heard, nor has the imagination conceived of the beauty that awaits us.”
Brennan Manning from Ruthless Trust
“The poets, singers, songwriters, novelists, musicians, clowns, and mystics enable the voices [of] creation to shout, ‘How beautiful is the One who made us!’”
Brennan Manning from Ruthless Trust
“Send in the artists, mystics, and clowns…With fresh language, poetic vision, and striking symbols they express God’s inexpressible Word in artistic forms that are charged with the power of God, engaging our minds and stirring our hearts as they flare and flame.”
Brennan Manning from Ruthless Trust
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