Blues for Good Friday: Jazz Meditations

The Theodicy Jazz Sextet and Thomas H. Troeger explore the Good Friday passion through the paradox of the blues, moving from lamentation to profound joy.

This service of jazz-infused prayer poses the question: How is it that we can be sorrowful, yet always rejoicing?  Join us for a story of mourning and healing, culminating in John Coltrane's A Love Supreme.

About Theodicy Jazz Sextet
The Theodicy Jazz Sextet is a group of musicians committed to ministry through music.  They continue an age-old tradition of songs that builds community and empowers people to realize bold dreams: music as a catalyst for direct and permanent social change. Their sound is influenced by the spirituals and gospel music of the African-American church, as well as progressive jazz and world music. This music is a constant prayer, sometimes a cry of joy, sometimes a shout for action, sometimes a deep, silent hope.  It is truly "soul music."

About Thomas H. Troger

Thomas H. Troeger is the Professor of Christian Communication at Yale Divinity School, Yale University.  Professor Troeger has written twenty books in the fields of preaching, poetry, hymnody and worship and is a frequent contributor to journals dedicated to these topics. His most recent books include God, You Made All Things for Singing: Hymn texts, anthems, and poems for a new millennium and Above the Moon Earth Rises: Hymn Texts, Anthems and Poems for a New Creation.  He is also a flutist and a poet whose work appears in the hymnals of most denominations and is frequently set as choral anthems. For three years Professor Troeger hosted the Season of Worship broadcast for Cokesbury, and he has led conferences and lectureships in worship and preaching throughout North America, as well as in Denmark, Holland, Australia, Japan, and Africa. Ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1970 and in the Episcopal Church in 1999, he is dually aligned with both traditions. He is a former president of the Academy of Homiletics and currently serves as co-President of Societas Homiletica (the international guild of scholars in homiletics), and as national chaplain to the American Guild of Organists.

 

Good Friday, April 2, 7:00 pm

All are welcome!

You can hear recordings of the band at www.myspace.com/oberlingatewayband