Friday, September 24, 2004
What's playing
I was listening to ABC's (Australia) eclectic weekly program of sacred music For the God Who Sings earlier this week at the office. (You can find it here: http://www.abc.net.au/classic/audio/; just scroll down to about the third program.)
I was struck by this week's feature piece (about 50 minutes into the program), Jonathan Elias' Prayer Cycle, reviewed here: http://www.canoe.ca/JamAlbumsV/var_prayercircle.html.
I listened again tonight while on the computer, and I was even more impressed. I surfed to a brief bio here: http://www.sonyclassical.com/artists/elias/bio.html and was struck by this quote from Elias:
"Prayer is what we turn to when the only thing we have left is hope."
While I appreciate the deep spirituality of Elias' work, my hope is that prayer is a little more than a last line of defense. But if the composer is suggesting that prayer is the only thing we can turn to when all we have is hope, then I suppose I can sign on to that.
Now I have to see if either of my record clubs offer this disc.
