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January 01, 1970

Delvyn Case

About Delvyn Case

Delvyn Case is a composer, conductor, scholar, writer, and educator based in Boston. His works have been performed by over 80 orchestras in the US, UK, Canada, and Europe, as well as by several Grammy-winning artists. His work as a scholar and writer explores the intersections between music and the Christian tradition and all types of music – scared, secular, classical, and popular. He teaches at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, a secular liberal arts school, and is a member of Old South Church in Boston. www.delvyncase.com

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  1. Why do we write music, or any other potentially good thing? Because we’re designed to do so and to want to do so, regardless of public response, or even for a wrong reason. The more I’m learning to not try to draw from my finite self, but from the Infinite Self (i.e. God, “I Am”) the more I’m HAPPY with music in general, and my own music in particular. Music without words talks sometimes more than words, deeper but less specific, because it’s often a spirit to spirit communication. When music has words, the music amplifies the words. There are all kinds of genres and sub-genres of music, but they all have two things in common, rhythm and pitch, like time and space. And they tend to be ABOUT the same things, even though the “language” they use is different. The three settings of Psalm 148 by Richard J. Clark, Haosi Howard Chen and Tatev Amiryan are all voice & piano, all “art” music, but all wonderfully different from each other, letting us hear Psalm 148 from three different perspectives. like hearing sermons on Psalm 148 by three different preachers. Thank you Delvyn for your devotion to share other people’s music, with God being both the source and focus of it, regardless of the size of the audience. Jesus spoke to one at a time, but also 5,000 ones at a time.

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