Enns Archives - Toronto Mendelssohn Choir https://www.tmchoir.org/tag/enns/ Canada’s Choir for 130 Years Wed, 26 May 2021 21:38:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Composer’s Commentary on I will lift up mine eyes https://www.tmchoir.org/composers-commentary-on-i-will-lift-up-mine-eyes/ Thu, 03 Mar 2016 17:15:03 +0000 https://www.tmchoir.org/?p=2043 Leonard Enns writes of his TMC commission, I will lift up mine eyes: Psalm 121 is typically read, and often set musically, as a text of assurance and comfort. My setting is similar in that regard. What I find compelling, though, is the second phrase of the psalm: "from whence commeth my help (?)." Many musical settings treat the phrase "from whence cometh my help" simply as a modifier (no question mark); i.e. "... the hills from whence cometh my help" (take, for example, Mendelssohn's "Lift thine eyes"). Most current translations, however, treat it as a question.

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]]> Sacred Music for a Sacred Space 2016 Program Notes https://www.tmchoir.org/sacred-music-2016-program-notes/ Tue, 01 Mar 2016 20:47:45 +0000 https://www.tmchoir.org/?p=2039 Artistic Director Noel Edison has always enjoyed the combination of Renaissance with contemporary music in a concert program. For him, it’s the similarity between the openness and simplicity of the structure of these compositions that works so well together.

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