Tom's Virtual
Cultural Empire!
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(Human and feline Web surfers welcome!)
Welcome to Tom's Virtual Cultural Empire, where you can find several of my essays and notes on Christianity and the Bible, classical music, literature, and online debating. I have also included some thoughts by great minds on the role of government in our lives. These items reflect the things I believe and those that intrigue me, and I hope you find them enjoyable.
I do not claim to be a specialist (in the academic sense) on most of the topics here, but I have studied them with the passion of an interested layman. My degree is in English, but I also took some college courses in music, and I keep a foot in matters religious and political.
Most of all, I believe in free expression and exchange of views, and have little sympathy for those who go around cyberspace (or real life) looking for people to flame. I think all of us are better for it when even the ideas with which we disagree are treated with respect.
The available topics are:
Some Notes on the Bible
(Individual verses and passages)
Club JSB (classical music topics)
Blasts from the Past (and Present): Government and Political
Theory
Special Features:
- Check my blog! I am blogging at http://vivaldi5.blogspot.com ("Right as Rain" blog), at least until I get too busy to keep up with posting new entries!
- Comments on the new C.P.E. Bach edition! There is a new edition called Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Works which is scheduled to publish (at last) the whole of Emanuel’s output. I have commented on several volumes on my blog; here are the collected posts containing my reviews.
- Added
- "Introduction" to The NIV-Only Controversy. This constitutes my recognition of the 10th anniversary of James White's seriously-flawed polemic The King James Only Controversy; instead of presenting a serious treatment of its flaws (which many others have done), I wrote a satirical sample chapter of a fictional book about "NIV-Onlies" and their "movement"! This introduction, which links into the parody sample chapter, is an attempt at a brief explanation of what motivated me to write it.
- Who is Pennuto? Take a journey to the 18th century and read a synopsis of the attempt to "rediscover" this neglected composer. Contains MIDI file excerpts of Pennuto's output.
This site
referenced at
A Directory of J.S. Bach Resources on the Internet.
All original articles, photos,
illustrations, and MIDI files on this web site are
© 1996-2006 by T.L. Hubeart Jr.. This information
may not under any circumstances be resold or redistributed for compensation of
any kind without prior written permission from T.L. Hubeart Jr..
Photogenic cats in photos: Molly (above), Cali (below, 1994-2003).
Advisory
I have sometimes been informed of some difficulties that visitors to my site
have had in accessing various portions of this page, and while updating I have
experienced occasional problems myself with the response of AOL's servers. If
you find a page or graphic not coming up on the first try, please hit
"Refresh" or toggle between "Back" and "Forward"
on your browser, as this usually clears up the problem.
Also, because of the nature of the Internet, hyperlinks that are good at the time I post them do sometimes go out-of-date or move. I will correct such links as I find them or receive notice of them.
Some
recommended links:
- Washington Times Home Page: Great news and editorials from a conservative perspective. Also try Fox News for more balanced reporting than is generally found on the long-established television networks (ABC, CBS, etc.). Another good one is National Review. And for outright take-no-prisoners conservative opinion, there’s always Ann Coulter or Laura Ingraham.
- Jewish World Review: This site, giving a conservative, morality-based Jewish perspective, also offers excellent political commentary, carrying columns by Thomas Sowell and many others.
- Swordsearcher: A great program designed by Brandon Staggs, featuring the KJV, ASV, Darby, Wycliffe, Tyndale, and numerous commentaries, dictionaries, and other helps, including Dr. Thomas Holland's book Crowned With Glory. It's become my Bible program of choice.
- Selected
Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope: Part of the
- Complete Works of Shakespeare: Searchable works of Shakespeare. Also highly recommended (though still in progress): the University of Victoria's Internet Shakespeare Editions, offering transcripts of original Folio and Quarto texts as part of a vast and exciting project detailed on that site.
- The WWW Bible Gateway: Gives several English and foreign language translations of the Bible in searchable form.
- The Classical Archives: A Web site containing several MIDI sequences of works by most of the classical music greats. Some especially good sequences of the Mozart piano sonatas can be found on this page.
- Dave's J.S. Bach Page: David Grossman's site dedicated to the works of the great Johann Sebastian Bach. Also check out Dave's Bach links.
- Bach Cantatas Website: The above composer is also the topic of this site by Aryeh Oron, which contains discussions and detailed discographies of Bach's cantatas and other vocal works, as well as performers and general topics. These are compiled from various postings about the subject, most of which have been sent to the Bach Cantatas Mailing List.
- C.P.E. Bach: The Complete Works: Website of the new edition of Emanuel Bach’s music currently being published, with a scheduled completion date of 2014.
- The Mozart Project: An impressive compendium of information on one of the most beloved of all composers.
- Wikipedia: An online encyclopedia that bills itself as the encyclopedia anyone can edit. It has a lot of gold, as well as a considerable amount of garbage, and it probably shouldn’t be a primary source of information for any of you schoolkids doing reports (in lieu of going to the library). But as a supplemental source of quick info, it is quite good.
- Leo Laporte: Good to see this former Tech TV host emerging with one of the most popular podcasts, “This Week in TECH,” as well as hosting the revived Call for Help (which the Canadians helped resuscitate after Tech TV was merged with G4-TV and essentially destroyed). For technology questions, Leo is the man!
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