This weekend we observe the tenth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. This is the best music written about it so far. John Adams’ On the Transmigration of Souls was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for the first anniversary of 9/11, and blends the names and descriptions of victims in a mixing of choral, orchestral, [...]
“The Messiah’s Coming and Kingdom” Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Psalm 98:4-8 One of our best-loved Christmas carols isn’t really about Christmas.(Technically, it isn’t even a carol.) It’s one of a set of paraphrases of the book of psalms, converted into hymn form by the 17th-century “Father of English Hymnody,” Isaac Watts: Joy to the world, the [...]
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