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BLESSEDNESS
By Richard Knox We live in a secular society -- who can deny it? We’re marked by our relentless focus on materialism and preoccupation with what established religions call “worldly” concerns. Recent statistics bear this out. In the early-1950s nearly half of all Americans went to church regularly. Today fewer than a third do. And yet, lately the nation has been seeing a rise in the proportion of Americans who identify as “spiritual but not religious.” About seven in ten peop
Nov 175 min read
Brahms and Yearning
By Richard Knox The concert begins in the personal voice of a Romantic poem set as a German Lied, or art-song. Such choral Lieder make...
Jun 136 min read
The Magic of Tuning In
“Only that day dawns to which we are awake.” --- Henry David Thoreau By Richard Knox OK,...
Jun 6, 20245 min read
Singing a gamut of emotions
- By Richard Knox Music is an emotive art. It can arouse a gamut of feelings, touching parts of our soul beyond logic and analysis....
Nov 10, 20236 min read
What (Only) Music Can Do
By Richard Knox Charles Darwin was prescient about many things, but music was a black box to him. He couldn’t figure out why humans...
Jun 7, 20239 min read
Imagining a Better World:The Music of Oliver Caplan
By Richard Knox When Oliver Caplan first encountered “Cloud Anthem” – Richard Blanco’s poem reimagining humans as clouds, rain,...
Oct 8, 20227 min read
The Seven: Who They Were
by Richard Knox True to its title, Seven Last Words of the Unarmed contains only the last utterances of the murdered men, as gleaned from...
Jun 17, 20225 min read
Music for Troubled Times
By Richard Knox We live in a troubled time. The world is beset by worries about a brutal European war with an unimaginable outcome. At...
Jun 10, 20226 min read
The Other Side of Eternity
By Richard Knox Every last one of us has had, or will have, an encounter with the Sacred Veil of which the New Hampshire Master Chorale...
Nov 4, 202110 min read
As We Gather at the River:Transcending Our Sorrows, Resuming Our Joys
At last: Live music performance, in person, unmasked and undistanced!
Jun 15, 20218 min read
Hope: What It Is... and Isn't.
Written by Richard Knox. When I heard the theme of this concert would be “hope,” my first thought was: “Oh, that’s nice.” That is, nice...
Jun 7, 20196 min read
Songs of Hope - June 15/16
Written by Richard Knox Hope is the theme of the New Hampshire Master Chorale’s spring concerts, on June 15 in Concord and June 16 in...
Jun 5, 20194 min read
Into Our Bounded Fields of Time
A Meditation on Time and Human Existence Time is the ocean we all swim in…infinite, invisible as air. We spend lifetimes trying to find...
Jun 15, 20185 min read
The Heart of the Singer: Program Notes
The Heart of the Singer: A Contemporary Lament And the Redeeming Power of Music By Richard Knox Master Chorale devotees won’t be...
Nov 7, 20174 min read
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