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Robert Scholz

Robert Scholz

Professor of Music

St. Olaf College

Robert Scholz is Professor of Music at St. Olaf College. A composer, arranger, choral conductor, singer, church musician, and teacher of music history, theory, and conducting, he has published a historical edition of a Pachelbel Magnificat and has taught at St. Olaf for thirty years.

Published Articles

Article

How Can We Keep From Singing?

Robert Scholz

No. 7 · Summer 1999

Scholz, professor of music at St. Olaf, responds to Tom Christenson’s “Freedom of a Christian” by walking through his own Nunc dimittis for the St. Olaf Christmas Festival, an Elderhostel choir of singers aged 60 to 95, and the four liberating arts (enablement and change, melioristic, embodying, and critical) as they shape conducting, composition, and music education. He defends the fine arts and folk traditions over “contemporary Christian” soft pop-rock and taped accompaniments, citing Luther’s preface to Georg Rhau’s Symphoniae iucundae and the family of God’s need to interact in song against the virtual community of TV evangelism and the Crystal Cathedrals of the air.

Robert Scholz

Published Articles

How Can We Keep From Singing?