henryhaffnermusic

Violist, Violinist, Songwriter. Music Director @parishpres

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God bless Nippon 🇯🇵

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USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen.

I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify.

In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather.

"Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully.

"Honey, that's what it looks like."

The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it."

I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it.

I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South.

It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent.

"Well?" the waitress asked.

"I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed."

"Everybody does, hon."

Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it.

Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating.

I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden.

It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.

[Judeau ᛟ @RedTailedRetard]

"Music is by no means like the other arts, namely a copy of the Ideas, but a copy of the Will itself, the objectivity of which are the Ideas. For this reason the effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music speaks of the essence."

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@RolandGunnTN It’s awful. But remember, not all of us are rich foreigners-pity those of us who are actually from Williamson co

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@IVMiles Pledge is very Yankee. Christian flag is just mainline-coded to me, not necessarily a problem for southerners

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@MaineAnjous @SkippyPetro @Jrkirkfarms @ChrisRylandJr https://t.co/ZvUkAw3ibj

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@jameszimmermann Bet you heard some good oboe playing

[Unapologetic and Unreconstructed @MarkAppel22]

The more flags we display, the less people will move here.

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@reformedhg You might enjoy my work, mostly psalm settings https://t.co/cBeTvq5xJe

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So true.

[Redeemed Zoomer @redeemed_zoomer]

As a classically trained musician, I cannot understand why anyone would think Byzantine/Gregorian chant is superior to 4-part hymns

[Dave 🧊 @DavidCarlson]

Southern Boy Summer is imminent. Dixie yearns.

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Closing out the season up here in Lexington with a anniversary celebration for this lovely venue. The Michael Torke concerto is fantastic, pairs well with a true warhorse

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@BonifaceOption No joke, this interpretation was widely discussed when the movie came out

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@Chase_Steely @PASeay13 Jealous of the “Singing Billy” hardback. Is that a score or just the libretto?

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Chesterton was wrong. He was a journalist-great for a one liner or snappy quote, but major deficiencies in philosophy and theology

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

GK Chesterton in 1922: “America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature. It enunciates that all men are equal in their claim to justice, that governments exist to give them that justice, and that their authority is for that reason just.”

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Springsteen can’t hold a candle to Bob Seger.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Bob Seger is better than Bruce Springsteen. I don’t know how many of you are joining me on this island but I feel like it will be 50% geniuses and 50% guys who make women instinctively lock their car doors.

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@mhall_viola @UCBarstool The opera building in one end zone of the football stadium is pretty sweet

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@RolandGunnTN Jeff Davis memorial?

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R.I.P. to the mysterious rhinestone cowboy. Finally you heard him call you by your name.

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@booksandbbq It was a thing at Vanderbilt in the early 2000s when I graduated. Maybe a general southern thing?

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Warming up for one of my favorite viola solos-the introduction of “Somewhere” in “Symphonic Dances from West Side Story.”