Theology, Imagination and the Arts
[Editor’s Note: Composer and musicologist Jane Pettegree uses her fascinating contribution to our series on artists’ creative processes to introduce readers to a new…
The website of multi-instrumentalist Mary Vanhoozer proclaims her mission of ‘restoring beauty one note at a time.’[1] She accomplishes this mission equally in the…
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This final instalment of our ten-year anniversary series is published in a new year. We have turned the corner from the past…
My first opportunity to listen to Mary Vanhoozer’s Bard and Ceilidh in full came during an early morning drive from the Loch Lomond region…
The year 2018 saw the publication of a book jointly written by David Brown and Gavin Hopps, The Extravagance of Music (London: Palgrave Macmilllan)….
‘Hey Teo—play some of that back’, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis comments on the delicate tune ‘Thisness’. [1] A previously unreleased track until its inclusion…
David Brown and Gavin Hopps. The Extravagance of Music. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 352 pp. £64.99 (hardcover) / £59.99 (softcover). C. S….