MP3 John Lane - Days Have Spoken

Serious classical chamber music composed since 2003 connecting strongly with live audiences through a dynamic emotive continuum from self-assured, feisty and insistent to warm and jovial, beholden and contemplative.

15 MP3 Songs in this album (59:35) !
Related styles: CLASSICAL: Chamber Music, AVANT GARDE: Modern Composition

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Days Have Spoken

The only principal who kept vigil with Job, but was not found guilty of accounting wrongly of Jobâs crisis of theodicy, was Elihu. He was the last to address Job after the others had exhausted their reasonings to explain the human tragedy, and also because they were much older than Elihu, and thus presumably wiser. Elihu concludes then that he should âlet days speak,â or that âdays should speakâ first. The wisdom of the aged failed this time, however. To me, the times we experience now also say much. And our daily attempts to make sense of these times and to assure ourselves of our confirmed places in them say volumes as well. International affairs speak, and so do domestic affairs, and human health, families bonds, personal welfare, life stages and life transitions. To see flags fly at half-staff almost all the time now, without knowing really for whom in particular anymore, for example, speaks to me very deeply. Yet, so do small everyday victories, and examples of resolve, and affirming the nobility and dignity and winsomeness of one another. And the still, small Voice still speaks. Amen. All of these, and other realities, are daysâ¦

Performers from Brussels, Belgium, Chicago, New York City, Brazil, the Charleston Symphony, South Carolina Philharmonic and University of South Carolina Orchestras, among others, presented these 15 commissioned works during the Days Have Spoken modern music composition concert at the Columbia Museum of Art (Columbia, SC) in February 2008. Among instrumental pieces for combinations of strings, woodwinds, brass and pitched percussion, enthusiastic concertgoers welcomed the premieres of "No! Means Nothing" and "Songs for Eleanor" for soprano, clarinet and piano, a collection sung in both English and French, often within the same song, in both standard vocal technique and sprechgesang. Lyrics with translations along with artist contact info and links to bios appear in the CD and DVD liner notes.



John Lane has taught music and religion courses at Wheaton College and at Allen University, including composition, counterpoint, theory, Christian Social Ethics, Theology of Culture, and Mission of the Church. Administratively, he has been Coordinator of the Department of Music at Allen, and previously as Chair of Music Theory and Director of Music Technology at Wheaton.


In addition to earning degrees from Harvard and the University of South Carolina, Dr. Lane has studied composition and orchestration at the famed Universität fur Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Austria, and at Aspen.

Recent accomplishments include leading an archaeological tour of the ruins of ancient Eleusis in southern Greece, and being named in consecutive years to Whoâs Who Among Americaâs Teachers. Dr. Laneâs recent compositions including 'Comet Run,' 'Serenity,' and '2:14' have enjoyed premieres and repeat performances across the country before capacity audiences by members of the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra, the Chicago Sinfonietta Orchestra, the Charleston Symphony, Greenville, and Augusta Symphony Orchestras, the South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra, faculty colleagues, and choral ensembles. He has presented original works, papers and workshops at refereed national and regional conferences in both composition and Christian music scholarship, and is featured on the âLead Gently, Lordâ CD released in 2007 by the Womenâs Chorale of Wheaton College. Dr. Lane has received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities, and Faculty of the Year awards at both Allen and Wheaton. In 2007 Governor Mark Sanford and the stateâs Commission on Higher Education named him a Distinguished Professor of South Carolina.