by Daniel Hathaway

In heaven the rapturous song began,
And sweet seraphic fire
Through all the shining legions ran,
And strung and tuned the lyre.
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Down through the portals of the sky
Th’ impetuous torrent ran;
And angels flew, with eager joy,
To bear the news to man.
—Samuel Medley, 1782

On Wednesday evening in Oberlin’s Warner Concert Hall, those angels happened to be mortals who hailed from South Florida, but the exquisite sounds that Patrick Dupré Quigley’s Seraphic Fire singers made could easily have overflowed from the banks of heaven. [Read more…]