Music at St. Mary's

09/04/2026

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaGGMa5OVCt/?igsh=MTZjazJiMXQ0dXVjag==

08/18/2026

https://theconversation.com/americas-musical-founding-father-liberty-songs-by-a-self-taught-singer-and-tanner-helped-fuel-the-revolution-278382?mc_cid=d266f86c0e&mc_eid=a88cd04128

William Billings has been largely forgotten, except among music historians. But he was the country’s first notable composer, penning protest songs against Great Britain.

07/29/2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/arts/dance/testament-of-ann-lee-dance.html?mc_cid=134e65d462&mc_eid=a88cd04128

“The Testament of Ann Lee” and Shaker traditions represent how movement has been a constantly evolving conduit to heaven.

06/05/2026

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/musical-phenom-introduces-an-old-instrument-to-new-audiences

The pipe organ is typically associated with formal concert halls, church music and traditional works by Baroque composers like Bach. But one musician, Anna Lapwood, is broadening the instrument’s reputation and has gotten millions of people to tune in. Jeffrey Brown and Maine Public went to experi...

05/25/2026

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On this day in 1906, The English Hymnal was first published. Vaughan Williams was the musical editor, and the hymnal contains many tunes written or adapted by him. Strangely, it was banned for some time by the Archbishop of Canterbury. He said it "undermined the uniformity of the Church of England". The literary editor of the hymnal was Anglican priest Percy Dearmer.

05/22/2026

https://interlude.hk/the-lost-works-of-bach-why-half-his-music-never-survived/

Why did half of J.S. Bach's compositions disappear? A look at scattered manuscripts, wartime losses, and recent rediscoveries of lost Bach works.

04/30/2026

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“On several occasions, I have attended events whose leaders, worship team, and delegates are thoroughly orthodox on the Trinity, but a song was introduced with lyrics closer to Oneness theology,” wrote Andrew Wilson last year.

Musically soaring, emotionally resonant, brilliantly performed worship songs are wonderful when their theology is good—but there’s a problem when it’s not.
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04/22/2026

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“Sunday school teachers, marketers, hymn writers, rock stars, and kindergarten teachers are all well aware that ‘what is learned in song is remembered long.’

And neuroscience backs this up,” wrote Jen Wilkin in 2021. “Pairing information with music helps our hippocampus retrieve that information with ease.

Sacred or secular, the songs we steep ourselves in are shaping us. This should stop us in our tracks.

How are the lyrics of our worship music forming us?”

From the CT archive: https://chrst.today/4sOuYeJ