So far from the Hub

I just learned that John Andrew Ross, Minister of Music Emeritus at the First Parish in Brookline, died  "after a very long illness. He was the spiritual and cultural heir of Elma Lewis and the man behind Boston's Black Nativity."  The Rev. Martha Niebanck, co-minister at the First Parish writes that she will conduct the memorial service which will be "mostly music with a drum fanfare as a prelude." (It will be at First Parish, July 23rd at 3 pm)

I met John more than twenty years ago at the Elma Lewis Center, and we drove together to a Unitarian Universalist Musician's Network meeting back about 1992.  I remember hearing his music many a Sunday morning on the Boston University radio station.  He was a Boston institution, and the city will never be the same without John.

I suppose I could get the Globe on line, but I rely on epistles from my friends, and the occasional Boston blogger, but sometimes I miss the people of Boston.  Not the ice on the streets in March, the people.

Here is John Andrew Ross as told by the Globe.