Title: Church music should be written by the church.
Product review: Had I known that Ralph Vaughan Williams was an ATHEIST, I wouldn't have bought this CD!I simply don't understand why church leaders insist on treating the ideas of atheists and pagans as equal to or above the authority of Holy Scripture.As Igor Stravinsky said, when asked if one must be a believer to create sacred music, "Certainly, and not merely a believer in 'symbolic figures,' but in the person of the Lord, the person of the Devil, and the miracles of the church" (cited in Spiritual Moments with the Great Composers by Patrick Kavanaugh). To have merely a "deep love for the language of the Bible and the Prayer Book, for the great Bach Passions and for visionary religious stories such as those of Job or of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress", such as Vaughan Williams had (according to the liner notes that came with this CD), is not enough. Sacred music cannot and should not be divorced from true faith.
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