Law & Scripture

I've taken to listening to NPR on Sundays, particularly a Canadian program called The Vinyl Café, which Erica and I discovered one day while driving around looking for an Indian restaurant in North Olmsted.

I wasn't particularly moved by it then, but I was very amused that they featured a singer named Harmony. For the past two weeks I've been tuning in for the Prairie Home Companion-type Christmas stories of the protagonists of the fiction portion of the show, Dave and Morley.

Anyway, after The Vinyl Café this week is a Christmas production in New York for the fifth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks. And I wish Monk knew about this, because it's got Law & Order's Sam Waterston reading scripture and poetry (good poetry, in point of fact) intermixed with some very good musical arrangements.

Hopefully, they'll put this kind of thing into the Signals catalog so I can get it for him for Christmas next year.

(Update: It's A Vigil for Christmas: Looking Before and After:

"Trinity Church, despite its proximity to the Twin Towers, miraculously survived the destruction of 9/11, a triumph made all the more precious since Trinity, New York's oldest parish, is home to St. Paul's Chapel, the city's oldest building, constructed in 1766. Trinity's internationally acclaimed choir is directed by its organist and choirmaster Owen Burdick. Interspersed among the anthems and carols are readings by noted actor Sam Waterston.")