Mozart - Naomi King Walker

02983 – Exercise Your Gifts

While cruelty is in power, do what Mozart did. Exercise your gifts. Create beautiful things. Wolfgang stayed clear of emperors and did his work, and he lives on today; and the emperors are just moldy names on marble slabs covered with pigeon droppings. If you can’t...

00825 – God’s Glory

by Buechner, Frederick

Glory is to God what style is to an artist. A painting by Vermeer, a sonnet by Donne, a Mozart aria—each is so rich with the style of the one who made it that to the connoisseur it couldn’t have been made by anybody else, and the effect is staggering. The style of an...