Ed Blomquist is copyright administrator for The Christian Science Publishing Society, advising various departments on copyright issues and also everseeing the permission for reprints of The Christian Science Monitor and other periodicals. An amateur jazz musician, he teaches several courses on copyright issues at Berklee College of Music. He spoke with the Journal recently about the references to music that he has found in Mary Baker Eddy's book.
Before coming to work at The Christian Science Publishing Society, I'd been teaching at Berklee College of Music in the Music Business/Management Department. The students there are great kids. Many of them are very spiritually-minded, as artists frequently tend to be—questing, and not necessarily finding the most welcoming culture for their creativity and freedom of thought.
I came to my job as copyright administrator at The Christian Science Publishing Society, not really knowing anything about Christian Science. As I was growing up, I had a few friends whose mothers were Christian Scientists, so I'd heard about Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and I'd heard of Mary Baker Eddy. But other than that, I didn't really have any good context for evaluating from a spiritual perspective what I was about to do.
