It's probably no secret to anyone that one of my very favorite composers is Herbert Howells (1892–1983). And this Sunday, there's an opportunity to play Howells that's just too good to pass up. The Psalm we'll be reading this Sunday is...
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture," or so goes the oft-repeated aphorism. And if music generally is tricky to write about, church music can be even more so. And couple that with the tremendously mysterious feast day which we...
There are many wonderful hymns for Pentecost, but if we were pressed to choose just one for the day, my money would be on the ninth century Latin hymn "Veni Creator Spiritus". This hymn appears — count them — four times in various...
This Sunday is one of the seven principal feast days in the Episcopal Church, the Day of Pentecost: Whitsunday. And it always makes me think about my cat. More on this later. I was recently heard about the concept of "sober...
I am excited to be beginning this new music blog on the St. Peter's website. In the Gospel of Matthew, after Peter, our patron, says that Jesus is the Messiah (what is known as the Confession of St. Peter), Jesus replies:: “18And I...
