Drops Like Stars is a book written by author, Rob Bell. Rob Bell is the founding pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grandville, Michigan and author of “Velvet Elvisâ€(2005) and “Sex God†(2007). “Drops Like Stars†(2009) is his most recent piece, in which he has been on a speaking tour for the book that began in January 2009. Bell describes in his book that, in many ways, like in movies, for instance, life is sugar-coated. Every story has a happy or meaningful ending. Every story gets resolved in one way or another. However, living in reality, everyone knows that many things do not get resolved. Many stories lived cannot be scripted into a happy ending. And when things go wrong, people find themselves traveling down new roads.
In “Drops Like Starsâ€, we are invited to travel down this road together, with Bell, who writes as our tour guide into the depths of human suffering and the relationships between suffering and creativity. Suffering is inevitable and in his book, Bell tackles the question of “what now?†instead of “why this?â€
Published in 2009 by Zondervan, “Drops Like Stars†is an original piece that lets us see pain up close and the creativity that comes from the “empty†places inside of us. Bell drives this point home through photographic messages and scenarios that tells our story for us. The book offers insights into the unspoken world of pain through what Bell ironically calls the “arts†which includes the six sections the book is split up into: the arts of disruption, honesty, the ache, solidarity, elimination, and failure.
For many years Skutela was connected with Academy of Music in PoznaÅ„ as an independent artist and performer, also collaborating with Students’ Interfacultative Symphony Orchestra. He is also co-founder of Academic Choir at University of Economics and Computer Science in Warsaw.
Being focused mainly on orchestral forms of music, he has created pieces in wide variety of classical genres; however, his compositional style represents mostly a form of neo-romanticism. During the years, Skutela evolved his own individual aesthetics and stylistics, which were being mostly described as “longingly passionate”.
Until this time, Skutela has composed two full-time symphonies (No.1 in A major - “Firespring”; No.2 in C# minor - “Faerie Moon”), two piano concertos (No.1 in F# minor; No.2 in B minor), one cello concerto (in E minor), several string quartets, of which the most notable is “Five Elements”, as well as about 50 pieces for solo instruments, mostly piano and cello.
After winning several minor composition contests in 2004-2007, he became more recognized among music community and started his interest in releasing soundtrack scores for short-subject movies (e.g. “Synninpäästö”, “Menneisyys” directed by Vuokko Salminen), theatre musical settings and other forms of art.
As a hobby, he was fleetingly involved in demoscene as a chiptune artist in 1999-2005.
At the moment, he lives in Poznań and works as music composer and psychologist-therapist.
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