Music brings faiths together
So how did the first Inter Faith week fare? Anne van Staveren tells Eye how it went in her Meeting
The sound of music echoed around the Watermans Art Centre in Brentford, West London. Nothing unusual in that, except this struck a different chord. One after another, a Jewish cantor sang psalms, Hindus and then Sikhs sang the words of an ancient Indian poet, Christian choirs sang in Latin, English and Russian, an imam gently intoned the Muslim call to prayer and Quakers kept a short silence. Not many of the audience understood all the words but it didn’t matter. They listened with their hearts as each faith shared something of their worship. Some said they could feel the Quakers listening for the word of God.
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