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In many ways, American evangelicalism is somewhat stronger today than it was in, say 1955 - certainly more mainstream and influential in the culture as a whole. But, the increased strength of evangelicalism hasn't increased fast enough to compensate for the total collapse of mainline Protestantism and the pretty steady weakening of my own Roman Catholic Church.

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Silence. . . is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.

Essence, Ingredient, Ingredients, Music, Silence
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The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent. '

Effective Listening, I Hate You, Listening Ear, Same, Silent, Word

If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

Composed, Ought, Piece, Pieces, Should, Tradition

Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it's the sense of order that is important in a work of art.

Art, Chaotic, Giving, Order, Sense, Work

In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of a sleepwalker. To wander is the Romantic condition; one yields to it enraptured, or is driven and plagued by the terror of finding no escape. More often than not, happiness is but the surface of despair.

Despair, Escape, Likes, Moving, Schubert, Yield

Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.

Concert, Remember, Silence, Silent
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