Carl Schalk, author, editor, and lecturer, is one of the modern churchs most influencial composers of choral music and hymns. He has lifted for the church the importance and excellence of the Lutheran heritage of music and faith. In 1965 he returned to his alma mater, Concordia College, River Forest,

This second edition of Laster's Catalog combines in one volume the listings from the first catalog with the voluminous material that has appeared since 1973, more than doubling the number of citations. It is designed as an aid for the church musician and/or pastor seeking to plan unified worship services.

In early 2005, an engineer at the Library of Congress accidentally discovered, in an unmarked box, the recording of Thelonious Monk's and John Coltrane's performance at a 1957 benefit concert at Carnegie Hall. Long considered one of the most important musical meetings in modern jazz, Monk's and Coltrane's work together

As a poetic drama, The Stone Ship transports readers on a lifetime's voyage of discovery. Jerome, an amnesiac, wonders how he became a monastic porter at Cloistergarth. His search for the lost years becomes a deep well from which all the fragments of his past emerge; the demonized adolescent rescued

Books about Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847, ed. by P. and C. Mendelssohn Bartholdy. With a catalogue of all his musical compositions by J. Rietz. Tr. by lady Wallace