Music Director Ebee Bromley Monthly Blog
The pursuit of learning an instrument takes countless hours outside of what anyone hears from the stage. It’s hours in the practice room by oneself. It’s exploring how different parts of the music fit together. It’s considering how we will let that music breathe through our technique. It’s asking what is resonant, what is dissonant, … Continue reading Under Construction
Pluralism and the ways it’s shown up in our congregational music over time.
Have you ever been transformed by a piece of music? Maybe that’s to lofty a question. Have you ever felt or thought one thing before a song came on the radio or before a rehearsal and then felt completely different when that musical moment was finished? I still have seared into my bones how experiencing … Continue reading Let Yourself Be Transformed!
How do we access liberating love? How do we notice the love that is here? The love that could be here if we nurture it, if we say yes to it? Sometimes a song can help us do that. For me a song that acts as the key to open the door toward liberating love … Continue reading The Gift of Liberating Love
May we all be generous music lovers and music makers this month.
“This is your chance! I believe everyone has at least one good song in them. There is spirit waiting to break through in all of us, if we are open to it.”
Delight, our theme for the month, and delicious share etymological root. This feels right, delight can feed the soul in a joyful way. We have to open up and let delight in for it to do so. This framework makes me think of Elise Witt’s song in our teal hymnal #1022 “Open The Window.” Her … Continue reading Hymn Highlight: #1022 Open The Window
Here’s a song in our hymnal that grew out of the Carlsbad Decrees in Germany, around the 1840s. It made it’s way into our hymnal, published close to 30 years ago in 1993 under the section ‘The Life Of Integrity’ as #291 Die Gedanken Sind Frei. It became popular just eight years after it’s first … Continue reading Hymn Highlight for the month of Resistence
Have you ever been gifted or have you ever gifted to someone a playlist? Was it to give to a new love? Was it to share with an old friend? Was it to help you mark a season of life? Whether it was through 8-track, tape, cd, or digital link – I bet in whatever … Continue reading A playlist that love built …
If you’re having a hard time tapping into your wonder place this month, try singing to yourself this tune, turning to something ordinary nearby and ask a question about it. The melody is a Transylvanian folk tune, the lyrics are by Carl Seaburg, long time UU minister, scholar, writer, and long-serving staff member at the … Continue reading An Opener for Wonder
