The sermon this week will be dealing with lament and when I consider lament and music, the two composers that immediately jump to mind are Bach and Chopin. Because we got to enjoy Bach and his contemporaries last week, I chose to focus the music selections on Chopin and his contemporaries.
Chopin often very effectively captured a sense of melancholy within his music. He had a gift for writing melodies that seem to sing on the piano. I hope you will hear this in the postlude, Nocturne in E minor, Op. posth. 72, which is one of my favourite pieces for piano.
Our anthem, sung by the adult choir, will break from this theme a little bit. It is a piece that Scott learned in Ohio while away for continuing education and he recommended it because of the relevance of the text to his preaching during lent. It is a contemporary worship piece which moves between a more subdued verse and somewhat impassioned chorus. It's very pretty and we will be revisiting it as a hymn in the coming weeks.
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