Lent 3 (3/24/19)

1944 manuscript of "Von guten Mächten",a poem by Dietrich Bonhoeffer Source: Wikimedia Commons

Music and text have been inexorably linked for thousands of years. The desire to humanize our music-making always leads back to the expressiveness of the original musical instrument: the human voice. Compositions are sometimes named after vocal terms, such as as cantabile, Italian for 'singable'.

This Sunday morning's focus will be on the sustaining power of words and poetry.

The music will follow suit with organ works named after and embodying literary terms such as "Soliloquy," "Poem," and "Epilogue." Hymns and the choir anthem will express poetic texts by 17th century Anglican priest George Herbert and noted contributor to our New Century Hymnal, Shirley Erena Murray.

​The power of words, through music.