This
semester I am singing with Marin Oratorio, a 100-voice choir that meets at
College of Marin. We are working on the
German Requiem, by Brahms, which I had sung 40 years ago – gulp – as a college
student in the Pennsylvania State University Chorus. The requiem has a lot of beautiful moments,
but the passage in the third movement has great resonance for me: Herr, lehre doch mich, dass ein Ende mit mir
haben muss, und mein Leben ein Ziel hat.
Lord, teach me that my life must have an end and that it has a
purpose. As I approach what hopefully
will be the last full third of my life, these words are a little more powerful
than they were four decades ago. I can’t
seem to get this passage out of my head, and maybe that is the way it should
be.
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