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Director's Welcome
The ISM journal Colloquium presents some of the more significant work that occurs at the Institute. Our mission statement makes the bold claim that we “educate leaders who foster, explore, and study engagement with the sacred through music, worship, and the arts in Christian communities, diverse religious traditions, and public life.” In publishing this journal, we seek to expand our mission to communicate some of our findings to a wider audience. With thanks to Markus Rathey, who skillfully knit together these eleven articles, we hope you will learn something about the worlds of sacred music, worship, and the arts, and also about some of the interests and experiences shared by our students, faculty, and honored guests. I am delighted by the breadth of work presented within these pages. My beloved predecessor, Margot Fassler, beautifully positioned the Institute to step even further into a global arena. One can get a glimpse of this vision that we are proud to continue by reading her article in our newsletter PRISM (December, 2004; www.yale.edu/ism/Prism/prism_arch.html). I moved into the Director role on January, 1, 2005. On January 2, I had an appointment with my friend and colleague, the renowned ethnomusicologist Prof. Philip Bohlman (www.yale.edu/ism/admissions/Friends.html) at the University of Chicago, to learn more of the recent work being done in sacred music of world religions and global Christianity. As you will understand when you read his article, he was enormously helpful: he soon became our third visiting fellow in ethnomusicology and ritual studies and now serves as an advisory Friend of the Institute. A scholar of Jewish music himself, he has been a wonderful guide through worlds new to many of us. These articles by no means mark the first time the ISM has branched out from its roots in western Christian studies; and, I am happy to say, this growth trajectory continues in many ways, for instance our new ISM Fellowships in Sacred Music, Worship, and the Arts (www.yale.edu/ism/fellows.) Our hope is that all these activities will help build mutual respect and tolerance between the faiths, the peoples, and the great cultures of the world. Martin D. Jean Director, Yale Institute of Sacred Music Professor of Organ, Professor in the Practice of Sacred Music
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