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标题：Carl F. Schalk: A Life in Song.
作者：Klein, Ralph W.
期刊名称：Currents in Theology and Mission
印刷版ISSN：0098-2113
出版年度：2014
期号：April
语种：English
出版社：Lutheran School of Theology and Mission
摘要：
Carl F. Schalk: A Life in Song. By Nancy M. Raabe (Concordia, $29.99). Raabe tells the life-story of Schalk, one of the great Lutheran composers of hymns and choral music in our generation. There are wonderful stories of his collaboration with hymn writes like Jaroslav Vajda (e.g., "Before the Marvel of This Night"; "God of the Sparrow, God of the Whale"; "Now the Silence, Now the Peace"), Herbert Brokering (e.g., "Thine the Amen, Thine the Praise"), and Susan Palo Cherwien (e.g., "Day of Arising, Christ on the roadway, unknown companion walks with his own"). Raabe also catches glimpses of his marvelous sense of humor and of his integrity. When the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod backed out of the Lutheran Book of Worship in the late '70s, after the idea behind this hymnal had been theirs in the first place, Schalk refused the Synod's call to create a substitute version for Missouri, in these words: "I am returning this call because I am unwilling to preside over the demise of the Lutheran Book of Worship in the Missouri Synod." Schalk insisted that a composer's goal has nothing to do with ego, but with the needs of the church in worship. He aimed to place himself under the discipline of the liturgy. Evangelical Lutheran Worship has nine hymn tunes composed by Schalk.
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Carl F. Schalk: A Life in Song.

Klein, Ralph W.

Carl F. Schalk: A Life in Song. By Nancy M. Raabe (Concordia, $29.99). Raabe tells the life-story of Schalk, one of the great Lutheran composers of hymns and choral music in our generation. There are wonderful stories of his collaboration with hymn writes like Jaroslav Vajda (e.g., "Before the Marvel of This Night"; "God of the Sparrow, God of the Whale"; "Now the Silence, Now the Peace"), Herbert Brokering (e.g., "Thine the Amen, Thine the Praise"), and Susan Palo Cherwien (e.g., "Day of Arising, Christ on the roadway, unknown companion walks with his own"). Raabe also catches glimpses of his marvelous sense of humor and of his integrity. When the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod backed out of the Lutheran Book of Worship in the late '70s, after the idea behind this hymnal had been theirs in the first place, Schalk refused the Synod's call to create a substitute version for Missouri, in these words: "I am returning this call because I am unwilling to preside over the demise of the Lutheran Book of Worship in the Missouri Synod." Schalk insisted that a composer's goal has nothing to do with ego, but with the needs of the church in worship. He aimed to place himself under the discipline of the liturgy. Evangelical Lutheran Worship has nine hymn tunes composed by Schalk.