Category: Announcements
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NAAL Cancelled for 2021
A message from Gennifer Brooks, President of the North American Academy of Liturgy, was sent to the membership of that organization on July 27, announcing that their annual meeting for 2021 will be cancelled due to the pandemic. Here is the message in full. Dear NAAL Colleagues: I pray that you all are continuing to…
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GIA to Acquire WLP
The Gregorian Institute of America (GIA) announced today that World Library Publications (WLP) will become a division of GIA Publications, Inc.
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The Liturgical Music Institute in New York
Now in its eighth year, The Liturgical Music Institute offers musical, liturgical and pastoral formation to both new and experienced liturgical musicians.
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John Cook, rest in peace
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music has announced the death of John Cook (1933-2019), former director of the institute and emeritus professor at the Yale Divinity School, where he taught religion and the visual arts. John Wesley Cook, Professor Emeritus of Religion and the Arts at Yale Divinity School (YDS) and Yale Institute of Sacred…
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The Beatitudes: The Fall Issue of The Yale ISM Review, Now Live
What does it mean to be blessed? The fall issue of The Yale ISM Review, on the theme of the Beatitudes, explores some answers.
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Robert Taft SJ (1932-2018): The Pray Tell Obituary
Robert Taft was before anything else a good priest and a faithful and faith-filled Jesuit.
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GIA to Host Fall Institute October 11-13, 2018
GIA Publications will host a Fall Institute October 11-13, 2018 on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue. Gathering leaders in music, worship, education, and formation, the Institute will offer an assortment of skill building and enrichment workshops, plenum addresses, ecumenical prayer opportunities, and choral reading sessions. Session topics include a wide range of programming (rehearsal techniques, conducting, pastoral music, leadership,…
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Notre Dame Folk Choir Shares New Hymn in Response to Natural Disasters
The University of Notre Dame Folk Choir, under the direction of J.J. Wright and Karen Schneider Kirner, released a new hymn for praying the realities of recent natural disasters. The full score of “God Hushes Storms to Silence” by Karen Schneider Kirner and John T. Kyler is available for free download so that communities everywhere…
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Vatican Conference for Composers
This gathering will be significantly different from the previous music conference.