Magnificat-the Visitation by Patrick G. Metoyer

The Annunciation, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1898.

magnificat – the visitation

madonna visits –
her lyrics like nightingales'
gregorian chants
juilliard musicians note:
glissando steps to heaven

Patrick G. Metoyer

Mary's visit to Elizabeth invokes an operatic scene in which Mary delivers her Magnificat aria. Cherubim and Seraphim, perhaps, provide the chorus in a Bach sacred cantata or Mozart vespers.

When he is not engaged in visual arts, Colorado resident Patrick G. Metoyer enjoys reciting and performing his creative writings. His poetry and prose in the past few years have been featured in Grand Valley Magazine. Recent submissions are forthcoming online in 2016 at gnarledoak.org and deadmule.com.