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‘Taking every song captive’ progress report

by Marvin Olasky

Music |  YouTube now has four sung versions of my reworked lyrics to Leonard Cohen’s great melody “Hallelujah.” (We posted the first two on New Year’s…

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Adele with her Grammy for 2012 Record of the Year

Signs and Wonders: Music sells, American furniture does not, adoption gets a (tax) break

by Warren Cole Smith

Newsworthy |  Worth noting. I normally don’t pay much attention to pop music in this column, but I couldn’t help noting that the British singer Adele’s 21 was the…

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WORLD editor in chief and songwriter Marvin Olasky

Readers take song captive

by Mickey McLean

Music |  Marvin Olasky believes "Great tunes should not be wasted," so in his column from our Dec. 29 issue, WORLD's editor in chief shared new, improved lyrics he…

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Keith and Kristyn Getty performing in Louisville, Ky., on Nov. 29.

The modern-day hymn writer

by Warren Cole Smith

Music |  Keith Getty strives to bring the richness and depth of traditional hymn writing into the 21st century

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FORGED IN A COMMON FIRE: Dave Brubeck (left) and Elliott Carter.
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Taut strings struck

by Arsenio Orteza

Music |  The deaths of Dave Brubeck and Elliott Carter mark the end of a musical world

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Ruthless games
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Ruthless games

by Arsenio Orteza

Music |  Taylor Swift’s Red answers Toby Keith’s boisterous Hope on the Rocks

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Notable CDs

by Arsenio Orteza

Music |  Four new or recent albums reviewed

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Leonard Cohen
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Take every song captive

by Marvin Olasky

Music |  Good singers, it's time to capture Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah'

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Dave Brubeck playing in 2010 at the CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, R.I.

Family and faith energized Dave Brubeck

by Warren Cole Smith

Obituary |  When jazz musician Dave Brubeck died Wednesday, one day short of his 92nd birthday, tributes poured out from all quarters. They usually mentioned his 1959…

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Notable CDs

by Arsenio Orteza

Music |  Five Christmas albums

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Meat Loaf (left) and Kid Rock
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Grand old rebels

by Arsenio Orteza

Music |  Meat Loaf and Kid Rock are Republicans of a sort

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Frédéric Chopin

Slaying Chopin

by Andrée Seu Peterson

Faith & Inspiration |  I am in the process of slaying Chopin. To be specific, his “Nocturne Op. 9 No. 1 in B-flat minor.” I sit at the computer all afternoon and type to these…

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