The Christ Hymn | a music podcast
A music podcast featuring Alana Levandoski's "The Christ Hymn," from her 2015 album Behold, I Make all Things New. This song features the work of four great poets of our time: Malcolm Guite, Scott Cairns, Joel McKerrow, and Luci Shaw.
Some notes from Alana on this song:
When I initially discovered that the first chapter of Colossians contains an early hymn, my imagination was sparked with wanting to make a work of art about it. In the end, to do this better justice, I enlisted four great poets of our time to dance with this hymn.
I asked Malcolm Guite, Scott Cairns, Joel McKerrow and Luci Shaw to contribute a recitation to this composition. While I gave them each a line from the hymn, they also spent time with the hymn in its entirety
These are the lines:
To Malcolm I gave — “He is the image of the unseen God, the firstborn of all creation.”
To Scott I gave — “He is the firstborn from the dead.”
To Joel I gave — “God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him.”
To Luci I gave — “Every creature in heaven and earth.”
For more information on Alana and her work, you can simply click here to head to her webpage. Digital copies are available on that site, about which Alana says, “I operate in the gift economy so all digital products on my store are ‘pay what you can’ offered as a gift.”
For the words of the poetry for this song, you can head to the liner notes from the original album by clicking here, and then scrolling down to page 24 in the booklet.
You can also listen to previous music podcasts featuring Alana’s work:
“Kuchine waMwari here?” | “Where were you?” - with Ignatius Mabasa