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Director's Welcome
The Colloquium journal of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music offers to its readers critical thinking and creative exchange on the study and practice of sacred music, worship, and the arts. This edition reports on two important events in the life of the ISM in the 2005-06 academic year. The first was the performances of the two Bach passions given in March and April, 2006. The second was the biennial study trip to Mexico, which most of the faculty and student body attended. Every performance of the Bach passions is a notable event, but for us these were particularly so as we dedicated them to the life and memory of J. Irwin Miller, co-founder of our Institute. Mr. Miller, who died in August, 2004, was a lover of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. The gift that he and his sister, Clementine Tangeman, so generously gave to Yale endowed the Institute as a place students can come to receive the best interdisciplinary education in those subjects on which we focus our attention. This celebration was particularly poignant as it was set in juxtaposition to our yearlong preparation for the study tour to Mexico led by our revered colleagues, Jaime Lara, Lorenzo Candelaria, and Edward Pepe. Mr. Miller’s interest in music, worship, and the arts did not end with Bach. Indeed, he was keenly interested in ecumenism and civil rights, having been one of the key people who pushed for the legislation that became the Civil Rights Act in 1964. For many reasons 2006 was an ideal time for our faculty and students to become acquainted and to make friends with our neighbors to the south. I believe that Mr. Miller, who was a founder of the National Council of Churches, would have been proud that we were doing this. With gratitude to Professor Jaime Lara, who worked to cull and edit the articles in this edition, I invite you to step through a portal into a world of “Passion and Pathos.” Herein you will encounter just a few of the many avenues humans have constructed to make sense of and explore the depths of what we call sacred, that divine Presence we attend to here at the ISM through our scholarship, creative work, and service. Peace. Martin D. Jean Director,Yale Institute of Sacred Music Professor of Organ
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