Saturday, December 28, 2019
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Saturday, December 14, 2019
Saturday, December 7, 2019
Saturday, November 30, 2019
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Read from some humbler poet,
Whose songs gushed from his heart,
As showers from the clouds of summer,
Or tears from the eyelids start;
Who, through long days of labor,
And nights devoid of ease,
Still heard in his soul the music
Of wonderful melodies.
Such songs have power to quiet
The restless pulse of care,
And come like the benediction
That follows after prayer.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Saturday, November 16, 2019
Say not, I live!"
Unless the morning's trumpet brings
A shock of glory to your soul,
Unless the ecstasy that sings
Through rushing worlds and insects' wings,
Sends you upspringing to your goal,
Glad of the need for toil and strife,
Eager to grapple hands with Life --
Say not, "I live!"
-- Angela Morgan
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Thank Thee that I can hear,
Finely and keenly with the inner ear,
Below the rush and clamor of a throng
The mighty music of the under-song.
And when the day has journeyed to its rest,
Lo, as I listen, from the amber west,
Where the great organ lifts its glowing spires,
There sounds the chanting of the unseen choirs.
-- Angela Morgan
Saturday, November 2, 2019
When composers begin the act of composition, they wish to reach out to something greater than they are -- to embody a feeling in a new and unique way. . . . . In the act of composition, something touches the spirit side of the composer, employing that ability to reach out beyond him or herself to something greater.
-- Weston Noble
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Saturday, October 19, 2019
Saturday, October 12, 2019
Saturday, October 5, 2019
Saturday, September 28, 2019
Saturday, September 21, 2019
Saturday, September 14, 2019
Saturday, September 7, 2019
Choirs, both church and concert, sing community when there is human diversity to be seen in the membership of the choir. Gender, ethnicity, age-range: these are visuals that contribute to the community and peace environment that ensembles afford. A choir's human diversity on display is bold protest, in this case, against segregation and discrimination. . . . Art calls forth a diverse audience and gives them deep lessons in community and peace.
-- Terry York
Saturday, August 31, 2019
Choral directors, sing the truth of community, sing the truth of peace. Sing until the fog of fear clears from our congregations and audiences. Sing until they recognize -- and cringe at the sound of -- propaganda. Sing with faith and its twin, creativity. Sing with humility and its twin, courage. To do so is to sing the gospel.
-- Terry York
Saturday, August 24, 2019
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Saturday, August 10, 2019
Saturday, August 3, 2019
A learner must be engaged in the creation of ideas for him or herself . . . Knowledge cannot be injected into the minds like so many cc.s of medicine. It emerges from the personal process of connecting ideas to form new ones, of adding new information to already existing perceptions and changing it. Music and the other arts do this automatically.
-- Alexander Bernstein
Saturday, July 27, 2019
Saturday, July 20, 2019
Saturday, July 13, 2019
Saturday, July 6, 2019
Saturday, June 29, 2019
It is because of the way music feeds into our emotional lives and because of the sense of social well-being we get from sharing emotional states with others that music so frequently accompanies movements that build, and depend upon, solidarity. This is a contingent association, to be sure, but the absence of logical necessity does not diminish the powerful role music plays in our efforts to build a better world.
-- Tracey Nicholls
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Saturday, June 15, 2019
Saturday, June 8, 2019
Saturday, June 1, 2019
A flower is a smile of God,
A distant echo of heaven,
A single, fleeting note
Of God's own music,
A perfectly-formed note
In his all-making harmony,
A voice full of mystery, dear Saviour,
That sings of your great power:
Infinitely melodious,
Sweetly harmonious
Silence of flowers,
Telling God in his grandeur.
-- St. Therese of Lisieux (trans. Felicity Leng)
Saturday, May 25, 2019
Saturday, May 18, 2019
Saturday, May 11, 2019
Saturday, May 4, 2019
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Saturday, April 20, 2019
Saturday, April 13, 2019
Music is one of our most powerful gateways to connect to our spiritual nature -- our divine source -- the unseen, as well as to the universe around us and those other divine beings that inhabit it with us. I know of no other medium that can transport us as immediately, on all levels of our existence, beyond the limits of our intellect and physical body to a higher, often blissful and inexplicable state.
-- Frank Fitzpatrick
Saturday, April 6, 2019
Saturday, March 30, 2019
To this day, I still find myself in awe of the infinite combinations of words, melodies, harmonies, and rhythms that make up what we call music. It all just amounts to a bunch of frequencies striking your eardrum, but when these frequencies vibrate in just the right way, something beyond words can happen. I equate it to spirit whispering musical messages in my ears.
-- Freddie Ravel
Saturday, March 23, 2019
Saturday, March 16, 2019
Saturday, March 9, 2019
Saturday, March 2, 2019
Saturday, February 23, 2019
Saturday, February 16, 2019
Saturday, February 9, 2019
Music is the binding stuff of community. Community is nourished by music. It is the grace of great things. Without the great things, community is reduced to inter- and intrapersonal relationships that are usually built on outside perceptions rather than the soulfulness of all involved.
-- James Jordon
Saturday, February 2, 2019
Saturday, January 26, 2019
Saturday, January 19, 2019
Saturday, January 12, 2019
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