“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
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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Brief Book Review: Themes and Variations: Music and Imagination
Julia Upton reviews Don Saliers, Themes and Variations: Music and Imagination.
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Collect Varieties
We will never have a “perfect” translation of the Roman Missal.
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New Distribution Partners for GIA
Lorenz Corporation has signed an exclusive Distribution Agreement with GIA Publications, Inc.
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Pray Tell’s review of Gather IV
Gather IV is designed to meet the needs of the modern pastoral musician
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The Organist as Storyteller– Episode #12
A video series with Jan Kraybill on the art of organ playing in worship.
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