Anticipation and festivity
Tova Leigh-Choate on the earliest forms of musical celebration during Advent and Christmas
In tune with the muses of Zion
Ken Myers on the Christmas music of Michael Praetorius
God also was a Cave-man
G. K. Chesterton on the convergence of omnipotence and impotence in Bethlehem
Christmas music from Luther to Bach
Tova Leigh-Choate on the roots of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio
Creation, in harmony with the Logos
Rowan Williams on the Logos and the diverse logoi that mirror it
How communities remember who they are
Oliver O’Donovan on the necessity of tradition in sustaining communal identity
A beautiful human geometry
Musicologist Leopold Brauneiss compares Arvo Pärt’s compositional technique with Jungian archetypes
A bridge between yesterday and today
Composer Arvo Pärt describes how he came to appropriate the mysteries of polyphony
Singing in praise of silence
Orthodox theologian Peter Bouteneff on the unutterable source of all true utterances
From the heart of silence
Conductor Paul Hillier on the sources of Arvo Pärt’s distinctive musical expression