“The CiRCE Apprenticeship has been a deeply formative experience . . . I have grown in my ability as a teacher and am learning how to truly love my students.”
Editor's note: This essay is part of our series of monthly reflections on important works of music. Every month we'll bring you a new post just like this one. Thanks to Lindsey Brigham for spearheading this project.
Britten's "This Little Babe" offers poetic and musical metaphors that rouse our wonder at the Incarnation's paradoxes--particularly the paradox that our warfare with sin and Satan testifies to our peace with this God-man.