The most prominent women in human history gained their prominence through motherhood. The hand of God moved the trajectory of history through his ordination of the miraculous conceptions of Sarah, Hannah, and Mary. Rachel gave her life to give birth to Benjamin, the son who gave the world the Apostle Paul.
Mary was clearly knowledgeable of the Scripture, as her poetic praise of the one she would bear, who would be not only her Savior, but the Savior of the world is a text sung the world over through Bach’s Magnificat.
“My soul magnifies the Lord, and
my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.”
~Luke 1:46, 47
The Magnificat, based on Luke 1:46-55, was Bach’s first major choral work. He composed it after his appointment in Leipzig in the spring of 1723.
The Netherland’s Bach Society's
presentation would make
Mary proud!
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