Category: Music: General
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Pray Tell’s Teresa Berger interviews two colleagues about the upcoming Coronation
Since I work, at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, with two scholars who have real expertise related to the liturgical and musical aspects of the upcoming Coronation (and are both British, too), I sat down with them for a conversation about the liturgy and music to be expected on May 6th. Oh, and I…
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Brief Book Review: Imagining Our Neighbors As Ourselves
To the degree that we can see ourselves reflected in particular characters, we can begin the work of engaging with their stories to critique our own way of being.
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Anything you can sing, I can sing … correcter.
Yes, the weekly song of the assembly needs a connection to the lections of the day. […] No, we cannot sing just anything at Mass.
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Brief Book Review: Theology, Music, & Modernity
“The book represents a deep engagement by theologians and musicologists with each other and, together, with ‘matters of religion and theology.'”
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Brief Book Review: Exploring the Spiritual in Popular Music
“There is sacred power in pop music, and it is worthy of scholarly attention.”
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Liturgy Alive! Composition Competition
The University of Notre Dame has announced the Liturgy Alive composition competition to foster creative new choral music for the Catholic Mass and Liturgy of the Hours. Prizes will be awarded to the winners. Entries will be accepted starting at 8am EST on July 1st and ending at 11:59pm EST on January 2nd, 2023. For…
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Westminster Choir College cuts degree programs
Organ and sacred music degrees are being dropped.
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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.