Mirabile Mysterium

At the Christmas Eve service at my church, the first half hour is choral music sung both by the large and excellent choir and by the congregation.  One of the choir offerings this past year was a setting of “Mirabile Mysterium,” written by Anne Kilstofte...

A World Without Pete

When I heard that Pete Seeger had died, I felt like I’d lost an era of my own political life.   In the mid-1970s, I was part of a large audience in Minneapolis that fell in love with the singer and his songs.  We all know that the Hudson River would have died...