

Thoughts from a Musician's Heart
ET LUX by David Danel January 2022 Thoughts From a Musician’s Heart is reprinted from Crescendo Internationals’ Tune-in No. 356. Thank...
David Danel


Thoughts from a Musician's Heart
MY WEEK WITH JUD by Wes Nance Last month I spent a week with Judson “Jud” Carithers, age 13. Our friend, Alana, finding herself with a...
Wes Nance


Thoughts from a Musician's Heart
AN ARTIST'S POWER “Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” Early 18th-century Romantic poet Percy Bysshe...
Naomi Franklin


Thought's from a Musician's Heart
THE INSIDE OUT OF MUSIC As a Christian musician, I often have pondered why God gave us music. Is it to praise Him? Of course. But is it...
Jonathan Keener


Thoughts from a Musician's Heart
BECAUSE HE CARES FOR YOU “Cast all your anxieties on the Lord, because he cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7). This directive has applied to my...
Shannon Nance


Thoughts from a Musician's Heart
WAITING FOR EMMANUEL Every summer I escape the heat in Kansas City to spend six weeks playing in a chamber orchestra in Lake Placid, NY,...
Steven Franklin


Thoughts from A Musician's Heart
PLAY! One of the defining convictions of my children’s school is the importance of unstructured and (mostly) unsupervised play. There is...
Cammy Cook


Thoughts from a Musician's Heart
A Journey of Grief and Gratitude Psalm 69:30 states after 29 verses of sorrow, “I will praise the name of God with song, and exalt Him...
Sara Beam

Nightmare Comes True*A Missed Gig*A Life Saved
Musicians have nightmares of crazy performances and lessons, disintegrating instruments, unplayable notes, murder by the stand partner,...
Barbara Kavanaugh


Thoughts from a Musician's Heart
FOCUSING ON GOD'S UNCONDITIONAL LOVE Our orchestra recently performed a few pieces that inspired me to contemplate the emotion of love...
Annabelle Gardiner