Keeping your community covered. We're committed to producing high-quality, fact-based news and information that gives you the facts in this community we call home. If our work has helped you stay informed, take action, or feel more connected to Windham County – please give now to help us reach our goal of raising $150,000 by December 31st.
Keeping your community covered. We're committed to producing high-quality, fact-based news and information that gives you the facts in this community we call home. If our work has helped you stay informed, take action, or feel more connected to Windham County – please give now to help us reach our goal of raising $150,000 by December 31st.
The influence of the life of Blanche Moyse on others is profound and is going to go on for a long time.
Let me make a personal testimony. During the almost 30 years during which I was a member of the Blanche Moyse Chorale under her direction, she influenced and shaped my life in ways that went far beyond the music which we rehearsed and performed. She is one of the most important people in my life.
The music was, of course, of tremendous importance in itself. First of all, she really brought me into the world of Johann Sebastian Bach in a way that no one ever had before. I am a Protestant minister, and I knew something of the contribution Bach had made to Lutheran hymnody and his great choral dramas of Christ's passion. But I had never known anyone until Blanche who was, in effect, a passionate and devoted member of “The Church of J.S. Bach.”
Bach was her gateway to that realm of everything that is mysterious, awesome, wonderful, good, beyond thought and words - the reality to which I would give the name “God.” Blanche was deeply religious, but not in a conventional sense. She was drawn to, riveted by, and had given her skill, energy, indeed her very life, to the music of Bach, and to the ineffable reality which that music expresses.
