Tag: The Silver Trumpet

For Christmas: The Silver Trumpet on its 100th Anniversary

In November 2024, I wrote on this blog about what was then the planned publication in 2025 of a new edition of Owen Barfield’s fairy-tale, The Silver Trumpet. Specifically I noted that it would be published by the Barfield Press on the 100th anniversary of its first publication. That gave rise, as I wrote, to a particular curiosity:

I had been wondering recently precisely when in 1925 the book was published by Faber & Gwyer, the predecessor of the publishing house still in existence, Faber & Faber.


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The Music That Shapes the Soul: Owen Barfield, Original Participation, and the Future of Education

I’m incredibly fortunate to be a piano teacher and music composition instructor to students of all ages a few days each week. I also perform, compose, create content for YouTube, and write music education books. My time is spent nurturing the imagination. As Samuel Taylor Coleridge beautifully put it, “The primary Imagination I hold to be … a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.”

It’s quite common for younger students to study with me, in some cases because of the decline of music in schools and the lack of imagination in the curriculum.


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New Barfield Press edition of The Silver Trumpet forthcoming in 2025

The Barfield Press has been very glad to receive a goodly number of inquiries about when a new edition of Owen Barfield’s first book, The Silver Trumpet, a story written originally for children, will be published.

This is still more the case since we had been hopeful of publishing it in the earlier part of this year, 2024, and announced as much.

But to all those who have inquired, and to sundry others, we can say that the Barfield Press will publish The Silver Trumpet in 2025!


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