Hip a capella quartet New York Polyphony, with a new album out, commissioned Missa Charles Darwin from Gregory Brown in response to the 200th birth anniversary in 2009 of the man who wrote The Origin of Species. It begins with a quotation from Darwin’s The Descent of Man that is perhaps more timeless than any sacred text:
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
The first 3 minutes of this video feature the opening of the Missa:
http://youtu.be/s3IsKOXjcbk
John Terauds, Editor-Emeritus of Ludwig van Toronto, is currently a Divinity student at the University of Toronto and a church music director. He joined the Toronto Star in 1988, was the classical music critic from 2005 to 2012, and continues as a freelance critic for the paper. He is the co-author of Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait, a book written with Toronto Star Colleague, William Littler.
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