Honestly, I was just going to the greenmarket. Sunday afternoon was colder than I’d thought, with that is-it-raining-or-not precipitation. And O, hey, there’s that Cathedral, the one where the dragon and the princess battled it out in that Disney movie…
We stopped in. Dark, quiet, still. With a stained glass window that’s over 40 ft. tall, and space you could easily fit a football field in, St. John the Divine Cathedra
The Rose Window
l inspires awe. It should–it’s the largest in the world. The world. Construction began in 1892, but wasn’t fully completed until 2001. We were ready to be fully amazed–and on our way– when the choir practicing in the front began to fill the heights with soaring, haunting, magical-can’t-begin-to-describe-it cadences. Each symphony of voice melded into the next, until the resounding finish was reached. And just as I was about to whisper to my boyfriend, “That’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard,” the conductor spoke. “Eh!” he cried, “What was that?”
Their continued practice was our gain. Measure by measure the piece was supremely perfected. Sunday afternoons, 3pm. Find your own wanderlust choir.
Tags: architecture, music, St. John the Divine
