Month: September 2016

  • Lyrics: Voices distilled. A sneak preview of Local Voices 2016

    How lovely is the depiction of poetic truth in the Song of Moses: “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak, and let the earth hear the words of my mouth. May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distil as the dew, like gentle rain upon the tender grass, and like showers upon…

  • Who are we singing for, and who is singing?

    I’ve been asked, “In church, who are we singing for?” so let’s play with the idea of an opera, with singers on stage enacting a story for the audience, and see what it suggests for hymn-singing. Put ourselves – the whole congregation – on the imagined stage of a service of worship. Sometimes we split…