(Interfaith) Making music holy: connecting prayer, text and music – free talk with live musical illustrations, by Jewish composer and singer Alexander Massey (Oxford)
– for Oxford Council of Christians and Jews (CCJ) – 14 March, 7.30pm – Harris Manchester College, Mansfield Rd, Oxford OX1 3TD
Sacred music can delight us or express our deepest pain; soothe us or challenge and unsettle us; encourage complacency and unthinking habit, or inspire us to greater awareness and action; prompt us to respond like a consumer to music as a commodity, or to deepen our connection to sacred text, prayer, and the Divine. Learn how a contemporary composer can work with tradition, language and sound to create new vocal music for carrying kavanah – sacred intention.