The apostolates that have taken up this task of sanctifying culture through art and music reveal that music is not an accompaniment to mission. It is mission. Mary Catherine Levri, associate professor ...
Sixteen hundred years ago, St. Augustine was credited with saying, “He who sings, prays twice.” Today, scientific research shows that he who sings, performs, or listens to music also enriches and ...
Richard Childress directs His Majesty’s Men. The ensemble has an upcoming concert in Chicago on Aug. 12 at the Church of St. John Cantius. The program will feature multiple newly commissioned Marian ...
I have a Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance from Syracuse University, a Master of Music degree in opera performance from Boston University and ordination and a degree in Sacred Music from ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — It was music that revived a nearly empty Louisville church in the 1970s. Now that same church, the Shrine of St. Martin of Tours, hopes to keep singing but needs help to ...
Ater a hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the New Orleans Sacred Music Festival is making a highly anticipated return for its eighth year. This free, day-long event celebrates spiritual traditions ...
Asked to describe the deep influence of Black sacred music on American culture, Braxton Shelley, a minister, musician, and musicologist at Yale, invoked the words of the 19th-century Czech composer ...
The Vatican’s sacred music school is seeking to teach Catholics worldwide how to sing ancient Gregorian chant as a means to help the faithful participate actively in the liturgy, including in papal ...
In 1964, Dean D.J. Bartlett and the Reverend John S. Yaryan invited Duke Ellington and his orchestra to present a concert to consecrate the renovated Grace Cathedral on Nob Hill in San Francisco ...