NOVEMBER 30, 2020 Here’s a snapshot of a strange moment in the history of musical performance. The Church of the Epiphany Tuesday Concert Series, where I’ve performed may times both as a soloist and in ensembles, is virtual right now because of the pandemic. It’s recorded on Monday with no…
I’ve always been interested in how creative people deal with limits and barriers. The pandemic-related restrictions on public gatherings have caused great disruptions for performers like myself and many in my circle. I want to highlight one friend and colleague who has successfully brought his skills to a new medium….
APRIL 11, 2020 I’m a classically trained professional singer. The church where I work – as a choral section leader and soloist – has continued to pay me through the pandemic-related closures. For that I am so thankful: not every institution can afford to keep paying musicians in this time…
The Hermit Songs are spiritual without being liturgical. One of the most peculiar is “St. Ita’s Vision.” I don’t know much about St. Ita, but at least in this snippet of her life, she feels that she has been put on this earth in order to physically nurse the infant…
Ah! To be all alone, in a little cell, with nobody near me…” from “The Desire for Hermitage,” tenth of the Hermit Songs. Words 8th-9th century, trans. Sean O’Faolain Isolation and solitude and loneliness seem to be the buzzwords of the COVID-19 pandemic, but those words describe the opposite of…
