HYMN: Loving Shepherd Of Thy Sheep by Jane Elizabeth Leeson
1 Loving Shepherd of Thy sheep, Keep Thy lamb, in safety keep; Nothing can Thy power withstand; None can pluck me from Thy hand. 2 Loving Savior, Thou didst give Thine own life that we might live; And...
View ArticleMUSIC: Rehearsing For An Epiphany by Thomas H. Troeger
From: Music As Prayer Advent and Christmas: ‘Tis the season of extra rehearsals, the season of getting ready for special concerts and services. When you are a church musician hauling music stands into...
View ArticleMUSIC: Waiting As Blessing by Thomas H. Troeger
From: Music As Prayer When I was a child, my least favorite season was Advent, the season before Christmas. Why? Because Advent means waiting, and if there is anything that most children cannot do...
View ArticleMUSIC: A Gigue For Everyone To Dance by Thomas H. Troeger
From: Music As Prayer One summer I visited a reformed church in the small rural town of Gasselte, located in the northern Netherlands. A few months earlier the congregation had celebrated its four...
View ArticleMUSIC: Plain And Simple, Rich And Complex by Thomas H. Troeger
From: Music As Prayer I remember preaching at a week-long series of services that were part of a conference on worship and music. We were fortunate to have an excellent organist, who not only gave...
View ArticleMUSIC: Unacknowledged Healing by Thomas H. Troeger
From: Music As Prayer I once read a brief article that featured a photograph and explanation of “clinicorgans.” These were small, portable pipe organs that were “particularly valuable in orthopedic...
View ArticleMUSIC: Season Of Lament by Thomas H. Troeger
From: Music As Prayer At the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, I used to team-teach with Patrick Evens a course on congregational song as a resource for preaching and worship. The course began with a...
View ArticleMUSIC: Music For Facing Temptation And Wild Beasts by Thomas H. Troeger
From: Music As Prayer I have always liked the conciseness of the Gospel according to Saint Mark. While other gospel writers expand and elaborate on a story, Mark’s version is often as succinct as...
View ArticleMUSIC: The Perfect Registration by Thomas H. Troeger
From: Music As Prayer I have always enjoyed hearing organists search for the perfect registration when they sit down to practice a piece of music. Sometimes I am playing my flute with them; other...
View ArticleMUSIC: Escaping The Hubris Of The Present Moment by Thomas H. Troeger
From: Music As Prayer How easily we are tempted to think that our present generation is superior to the generations that have preceded us. We learn about cruel practices of the past and judge them as...
View ArticleMUSIC: Children Of Process by Thomas H. Troeger
From: Music As Prayer When I was a teenager, I studied the flute with one of the instrument’s great teachers, John Oberbrunner. I learned all the Handel sonatas and then all the Bach sonatas. I...
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MUSIC: Study Tour Of The Human Soul by Thomas H. Troeger
From: Music As Prayer When I was a teenager, I purchased a copy of a book about J. S. Bach and his music. In the back of the volume, just before the catalogue of his works, were pictures of autograph...
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MUSIC: Wrong Notes In A Splendid Performance by Thomas H. Troeger
From: Music As Prayer I particularly remember one lesson from years ago, when I was seriously studying the flute. I was playing for my teacher, John Oberbrunner, a major work that I was about to...
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MUSIC: Before The First Note—Getting Centered by Thomas H. Troeger
From: Music As Prayer Whenever I am about to give a sermon or lecture or perform on the flute, I first need to get “centered.” Conductors and organists know all about this. Think of choir rehearsals....
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MUSIC: The Rhetoric Of Breath by Thomas H. Troeger
From: Music As Prayer I once attended a concert and master class featuring soprano Emma Kirkby, one of the preeminent singers of renaissance and baroque song, accompanied on lute by Jakob Lindberg....
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MUSIC: Silence As The Prelude to Sound by Thomas H. Troeger
From: Music As Prayer I recall reading an article in the newspaper about an organ that was rescued from destruction. The instrument was moved from one church and rebuilt by another church that had not...
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MUSIC: The Freedom Of Constraint by Thomas H. Troeger
From: Music As Prayer There are notes our voices cannot reach and our instruments cannot play. Even the king of instruments is not the king of every sound. Any one organ has only so many pipes. To...
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MUSIC: How Beautiful And Astounding Are The Feet by Thomas H. Troeger
From: Music As Prayer Many years ago I was president of the Denver Bach Society, a group that sponsored several concerts each year featuring the music of J. S. Bach. In addition to full-scale...
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MUSIC: The Piece You Thought You Would Never Play by Thomas H. Troeger
From: Music As Prayer Can you think of a piece of music that you did not like when you first sought to play or sing it, but now it is one of your favorites? Sight reading it, you got only half the...
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MUSIC: Music That Can Never Be Recorded by Thomas H. Troeger
From: Music As Prayer I recall a cartoon I saw nearly forty years ago. A youngster is listening to a symphony orchestra in a concert hall and turns to his parents to observe: “It’s just like...
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