Psalms

Music, like poetry, is a key to establishing an encounter between us and God. “Shortly before his death on July 6, Ennio Morricone worked with his granddaughter Valentina during full lockdown on a selection of Psalms, in which he wrote: ‘The Our Father calls all creatures together. In those words, I read this sense of abandonment in moving from active creatures to passive beings, and in that conscious and courageous passivity, the meaning of faith.’” The Psalms, in which song and prayer come together, reveal the spiritual aspect of music and raise us, earthly and wretched beings, toward God. In an original reflection on hymns of praise and thanksgiving shared with his granddaughter, the artistic and spiritual legacy of an unforgettable master.