The Catholic Culture Podcast: Episode 0 – The Nightingale

March 5, 2021

To celebrate the upcoming 100th episode of the Catholic Culture Podcast, here’s the interview that started it all. This interview, originally published on August 4, 2017, was so well received that we decided to start a series of interviews about Catholic art and culture. The podcast launched a few months later on May 1, 2018.

Catholic composer and pianist Mark Christopher Brandt joins Thomas Milas to discuss his classical albums and suites nightingaleinspired by the story “The Emperor and the Nightingale” by Hans Christian Andersen. This discussion featured not only the album itself, but also a broader exploration of the spiritual themes of Andersen’s classic fairy tale, particularly what it conveys about the true meaning of freedom, which was a double pleasure.

Mark has been a guest on the Catholic Culture Podcast twice since this first interview. (Thomas has since appeared on Mark’s classic albums butterflyAlong with cellist Catherine Colburn, whose skills are highly acclaimed,
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All music used with permission of Mark Christopher Brandt and Lionheart Music East.

link

Read: Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Nightingale”
http://hca.gilead.org.il/nighting.html

mark christopher blantz nightingale:

Score: nightingale sheet music
https://markchristopherbrandt.com/the-nightingale-scores-and-parts-store.html

Artist:

more: Round Trip: The Making of artist
documentary
https://markchristopherbrandt.com/round-trip-the-making-of-an-artist-dvd—store.html

Mark’s appearance on the Catholic Culture Podcast:

33 – Structure and Freedom in Music and Christ
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/episode-33-structur-and-freedom-in-music-and-in-christ-mark-christopher-brandt/

68 – What I learned from making music with Mark Christopher Brandt
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/ep-68-what-i-learned-from-making-music-with-mark-christopher-brandt/

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