Please Be My Strength
Gungor
For anyone who has studied the history of music, the church holds a very important place in the development of musical notation, theories of harmony and melody, the growth of instrumental music. It was one of the few places in the life of the common person where they could hear live music. Out of centuries of rich church music tradition, we have many great works of the greatest composers in history - Palestrina, Bach, Mozart, Messien, Paart, and so very many others.
And then we come to the present age.
Today, Christian music is big business. There are a huge array of artists on the scene making music - and much of it poorly. I don't think this is new - church music has always been big business. It may just seem worse now because we have forgotten all the bad church music from long ago. Unfortunately, when many of us imagine contemporary Christian music, it usually ends up looking something like this. (WARNING: this clip is sort of like Solid God meets Pat Robertson. There, I warned you.)
Ugh.
Enter Gungor (the group formerly known as The Michael Gungor Band). There is something we can all relate to in this musical plea for strength in the midst of weakness. It is well worth a listen, regardless of your background or beliefs - if for no other reason than because it is genuinely beautiful.
Happy listening.
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