Word: pastorale
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Enter Peter Okaalet, 52, a physician who decided in the late 1980s to go to seminary in an attempt to bridge the gap. From his base in Nairobi, where he serves as Africa director for a Christian medical-assistance group called MAP International, Okaalet has spent the past 12 years...
In Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 6,” often called “The Pastoral,” the momentous event in the fourth movement is a storm and the fifth movement represents conciliation and thanksgiving. In Schumann’s third, the ?...
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To that end, he and fellow screeners hope for high scores on empathy and intelligence (one recommends a minimum IQ of 110). They are worried that a predisposition toward solitude, though fine for monks, may bode ill in pastoral settings. They red-flag callings that seem to have been rebound...
But where Goethe’s trip took him to the glittering nexus of a unitary “classical” culture, González leads his listener through a more cosmopolitan pantheon of sincere acoustic folk, taking in everything from spicy Spanish flourishes to British pastoral balladeering on...