Performance as Sacred Solitude; Bach’s “God’s Time is Best” on the Sabbath in the Village Church, So. Lancaster, Massachusetts
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Performing music is a private thing.
An audience or congregation might
Be there beside you or in front. You sing
Alone, though. At your voice’s choral height
Its notes are yours alone. When notes are played,
Their sounds from black and white become your own
And yours alone. While they are fathom played,
You are a Daniel closeted, alone
In your communion with the notes, divine
In inspiration and then (now), you reach
Your core divinity. They then align
With what your soul alone, itself must teach.
When music comes from you alone, from you,
