Music at St. Mary's

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.
https://chrst.today/421uyHb

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

01/01/2026

https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/what-enslaved-black-christians-sang?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web&fbclid=IwZnRzaAPDvX1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xNzM4NDc2NDI2NzAzNzAAAR4pSW12qQ-yf8_neduiCQtP2DkbvB9LLM1O1vDC2UlKv0ROL5IzyMwWzB0ZBA_aem_KdAxvUq9jOmVCZ-3s2V4-w&triedRedirect=true

A Lyrical Meditation on Emancipation, Exodus, and the Spirit of Justice

12/11/2025

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Why do many parishes opt for twentieth-century hymns over Gregorian chant?

Elijah Guevara explains the importance of sacred music here: https://on.wof.org/3MsDjFG

11/18/2025

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wlr7r747eo

Germany's Culture Minister calls the discovery a "great moment for the world of music".

10/24/2025

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10/08/2025

St. Francis Choral Evensong

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