The Sacred Symphony Essays

One of my favorite college courses last year was a course called “Sacred Sounds of South Asia.” This class explored various South Asian...

A short film about heartbreak, and finding healing through friendship. Inspired by a print of Marc Chagall's painting "the birthday",...

Religion as Faith / Religion as a Marker of Identity / Religion as Muse / Religion as Melody What's your religion, my love? I worship...

If there’s any piece that encapsulates my childhood, it’s the Hummel Trumpet Concerto. I listened to Tine Thing Helseth’s beautiful...

8:27pm. Tonight, the sky was the unusual mesh of auburn and pink: Two colors that have always symbolized My femininity: an evolving...

Note: I wrote this poem while listening to the last three movements of Das Lied von der Erde: "Von der Schönheit", "Der Trinker im...

If you're like me, you love listening to podcasts with their transcripts. So, below is the transcript to the first episode of "The Sacred...

It wasn’t the most eloquent choice of words, but I could tell that Kasumi was trying to make a point. “What I mean,” she stuttered, “What...

When I was six years old, I didn’t understand the concept of God, so I didn’t believe in him. I did, however, understand the concept of...

If I had to name one piece that consistently takes my breath away (without giving it back), it would be The Avatar for trumpet and piano...

Have you ever thought about how incredible it is that every species on this planet has risen from a simple biological organism to...

Kathleen Battle and Wynton Marsalis’s album “Baroque Duet'' captures the true essence of the word “baroque,” derived from the Portugeuse...