Tag: music-making
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Why we are musicians
How do we respond when someone puts the entire liturgy for a service in our hands? In the case of the first musician-led service at St Luke’s (coming on 23 August), one of the first collective responses was to look wonderingly among ourselves thinking “we’re musicians.” I’m a professional musician, but I’m in the minority.…
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At the centre: beauty and celebration
A fellow student once turned to me and said, “I spend all day in the practice room by myself. I am completely self-centred. What good am I to anyone else?” It is a question worth asking about music – what good am I to anyone else? Is the beautiful useful, even necessary, or merely a…