“Religion guides all the processes in our lives, without us even knowing it. It is true that religion has a very important role in my composition, but how it really works, I am not able to describe.”
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Category: Music: General
Saint John’s Abbey Announces Construction of Pasi Organ Building and Woodworking Center
Pasi Organ Building is relocating to Saint John’s Abbey.
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James O’Donnell Leaving Music Position at Westminster Abbey
O’Donnell will be Professor in the Yale School of Music and Yale Institute of Sacred Music.
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Brief Book Review: Musical Scores and the Eternal Present
This book is for the adventurous mind that is open to exploring a wide range of sometimes tangential topics.
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New Organization for Catholic Ensemble Musicians
CLEF offers programming and networking for those active in ensemble-led Catholic liturgy.
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Brief Book Review: The Reason Why We Sing
Alan Hommerding reviews The Reason Why We Sing.
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Working in the Vineyard: the Church Music Institute
A regular feature in which Pray Tell highlights various liturgical institutions.
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How to Be an Antiracist: Hymn Edition
The Hymn Society announces a model for community-centered reparation royalties.
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Brief Book Review: Foundations of Christian Music
Michael Joncas reviews Edward Foley, Foundations of Christian Music: The Music of Pre-Constantinian Christianity.
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Meet Father Rivers: New Podcast Release Coinciding with Black History Month
Meet Father Rivers explores the life and impact of Fr. Clarence Rivers – a Black priest whose compositions and work in liturgy had a deep and lasting impact on North American Catholic worship.
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My Organ is Dead
My organ has caught on fire before. But it didn’t survive this act of God.
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