Program Notes

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

As We Gather at the River:Transcending Our Sorrows, Resuming Our Joys

At last: Live music performance, in person, unmasked and undistanced!

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...

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...

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...

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...