”Can Beauty Save Us?” A Guided Listening Journey in Choral Music for Holy Week

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough,
Massachusetts. For more information,
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by Adam Kurihara


Choral music for Holy Week is saturated with a dissonant beauty
that reflects the affliction of Chris. We will walk through
several key pieces listening and learning about what makes this
music so compelling. Learn how musical rhetoric (communicating
concrete ideas through musical themes), structure and form, and
melody and harmony draw us into the story of Jesus' crucifixion.
Our time will be spent primarily with Bach's St. Matthew Passion,
as well as Victoria's "O Vos Omnes" and Mozart's "Ave Verum
Corpus". Join us for this listening party as we explore choral
music for Holy Week.


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