Turn on the evening news and your home will be invaded with images of war, disease, famine and cruelty. These stories aren’t just from some distant land. It doesn’t matter where you live. Every nation, state, province, county and town has its own version of corruption, lawlessness and injustice. And if that isn’t enough, many families turn on one another…
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“Children of the Heavenly Father”
Here’s what we know: The author of the hymn, “Children of the Heavenly Father”, was Karolina Sindell-Berg (1823-1903). She was Swedish, small and sickly as a child, and very close to her Lutheran pastor father. With 650 of her 2,000 hymns appearing in print, she is sometimes called the Fanny Crosby of Sweden. Among her…
Bunte Blätter, Opus 99, by Robert Schumann
Between 1838 to 1841, German composer Robert Schumann wrote the fourteen piano pieces which later became collectively known as Opus 99, Bunte Blätter (Colorful Leaves). It is an unusual collection, consisting of Stücklein III (Three Small Pieces), five untitled Albumblätter (Album Leaves), and six individual piano pieces. Schumann was first a composer for solo piano. …