The luminary German musician and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer once proposed that, “In the twentieth century, the corridors of theology were not generally alive with the sound of music”. In between the lines and spaces of a world fraught with chaos and dark dissonance at the time, a great deal of artistry and creative act was muted within Europe and throughout the globe. However, in this coming of age, what we now call the twenty-first century, there appears to be a renewed Renaissance of beauty, vision, and wonder. 

The word cacophony is sometimes used to express the discordant mixture of sounds that occurs when each orchestral instrument attempts to tune at the same time. This act of communal tuning is ceremonial and occurs at the opening of every performance. In many ways, all of life is meant to be lived in harmonious cacophony--each respective person and artist offering up a distinct melody that finds resonance with its counter-point--only made possible by participation.

 I believe that musical metaphor and encountering the ungraspable, unseeable nature of beauty through the arts has the energy and force to shape our lives in indelible ways. This is the heart behind Cantus Firmus Music. 

From a young age, music reverberated off the walls of my family’s home--everything from Bach, Shostakovich, Debussy to Miles Davis, Carole King, and the squirrely Johnny Cash.  My love of music only grew by the measure of tremendous teachers along the way--notably, the late symphony violinist Carolyn Wayne and beloved Danish conductor, the late Henrik Jul Hansen.