Singability: Choir or Soloist
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STLT#155, Circle ‘Round for Freedom
This is a great piece – best sung a capella, with three strong song leaders to help fill in the rich harmony. I often forget about it, this sweet song written by cantor Linda Hirschhorn, and I’m not sure why. So when it comes up in conversation or I hear a snippet of it, I… Continue reading
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STLT#80, Wild Waves of Storm
There are days in this practice when I get so caught up in the holy act of singing, I hardly pay attention to any analysis. Then there are days in this practice when I get so caught up in the analysis, I lose any sense of the holy. A perfect day is when there is an… Continue reading
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STLT#60, In Time of Silver Rain
Some might say this is unsingable. It’s a complex, twentieth-century modern, sometimes atonal piece of music, and to the average congregant trying to sing for the first time, makes no sense and might make people run out the doors, never to come back. That’s because this isn’t a song for congregational singing. You see, what… Continue reading
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STLT#59, Almond Trees, Renewed in Bloom
I am likely going to disappoint you all today – because I’m struggling to articulate much of anything this morning. I’m not feeling witty (although when I am these days, I am grateful – thanks to Victoria Weinstein for highlighting that as a gift of grace). I’m not feeling moved deeply (although I can see… Continue reading
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STLT#45, Now While the Day in Trailing Splendor
New rule: there should be no time signature changes in the middle of a hymn you are trying to learn by sight before you’ve had your coffee. Now while the day in trailing splendor gives way to glories of the night, thanksgiving to thy name we render, O God of darkness and of light. Each… Continue reading
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STLT#24, Far Rolling Voices
Far rolling voices of the sea chant loud upon the shore. They tell the ancient mystery of God forever more. Newborn, the sun in glory rides across the heav’nly fields. The starry host in silence bides and to the morning yields. White seabirds wheel against the sky, companioned with the dawn. God, lift our winging… Continue reading
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STLT#13, Songs of Spirit
Songs of spirit, like a prayer breathing in the ambient air; singing in the morning light, in the radiance of the day, in the twilight shadows gray, in the brooding hush of night; dark or light, or storm, or fair — singing, singing everywhere. In the burgeoning of spring, in the summer’s scented bloom, in… Continue reading
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