Category Archives: Johann Sebastian Bach

Improvisation in Slow Motion

Posted on September 24, 2021 by Micah Everett

I have been arranging solo and chamber music for low brass instruments for almost my entire teaching career. As is true of just about everything I do as a teacher, my reasons for doing this have been mostly practical. The … Continue reading →

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“A Well-Regulated or Orderly Church Music…”

Posted on December 31, 2018 by Micah Everett

I have heard that the price of becoming a thinking adult is the need to deal with all of the paradoxes and inconsistencies that life presents, the cognitive dissonance that is inevitably present as we flawed and fallen humans do … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Micah Everett

In the minds of Christians who appreciate art music, whether as performers or simply as listeners, perhaps no figure so fully epitomizes what it means to be a “Christian composer” or a “Christian musician” as does Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). … Continue reading →

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