Audiocassettes have gone the way of the slide rule. Considering all the cassettes I have had tangle up over the years, I can't say that I'll miss them.
But our 2001 Impala has a cassette player, not a CD player. So I'm glad I still have some cassettes around.
Recently I was preparing for a drive and looked around for a cassette to play in the car. I came across an old copy of Hooked on Classicsthat we had purchased in the early 1980s, back before we came to Oxford.
Here were medleys of some of the most famous snippets of Western music, skillfully blended together and set to a disco beat. (As Dave Barry would say, I am not making this up.) Take the Flight of the Bumblebee, add the opening of Mozart's 40th, a little Rhapsody in Blue, some Beethoven's 5th and 9th, some Lone Ranger music, the Hallelujah Chorus.... With such great ingredients, you can't miss. Start with the Wedding March. Put in the Brahms Lollaby, Peer Gynt, some Wagner Kill Da Wabbit music---why not?
I hadn't heard any of these arrangements in years, but it is still true that when one of these bits of music pops into...
On August 15 Messianic singer Jonathan Settel led worship at the Church of the Messiah. He was in Dayton attending a Haverim School of Discipleship on the subject of the Feast of Tabernacles.
This was at least the second time over the last 10 years that Settel had come to Dayton. A number of years ago he visited Dayton and gave a concert. He has a deep, rich, resonant voice,and I was glad for the opportunity to hear him again. We have his album Kol Ba'Midbar (Voice in the Wilderness) on cassette, and his voice has kept us company during a number of car trips over the years.
