If you are a lover of pipe organs and organ music, Montreal is the place to live! The American author Mark Twain once called it the “city of a hundred bell towers” and traditionally where there are churches, there are also organs. As I write, the month-long Canadian International Organ Competition, held every three years,…
Several months before I moved to Hamilton, Ontario, I wrote a metrical version of Mary’s Magnificat, which I sang in church shortly thereafter. The Book of Common Prayer prescribes that the Magnificat be sung at evening prayer, which suggests that it need not be limited to the Advent season but should be sung often throughout…
They say that wisdom comes with age. It isn’t always true, but when we turn to Canadian singer-songwriter, Bruce Cockburn, such deep wisdom is all there on his stunningly beautiful 2023 album, O Sun O Moon (True North). By the artist’s own admission, this is a collection of songs written by an old man. But…
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