“Only that day dawns to which we are awake.” --- Henry David Thoreau By Richard Knox OK, raise your hand if you’ve never had a terrible,...

- By Richard Knox Music is an emotive art. It can arouse a gamut of feelings, touching parts of our soul beyond logic and analysis....

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...

By Richard Knox When Oliver Caplan first encountered “Cloud Anthem” – Richard Blanco’s poem reimagining humans as clouds, rain,...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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: A Contemporary Lament And the Redeeming Power of Music By Richard Knox Master Chorale devotees won’t be...