Music

How Does a Hymn Become a Classic?

Archbishop Cordileone’s Very Marian Advent Prayer Service Launches World Premiere of Two New Christmas Carols On December 15th, at Star of the...

Review: Echoes of the Ancient – A concert of emerging Catholic composers

On the evening of September 28th, heading out from the conclusion Catholic Art Institute conference in Washington, DC, I was alerted by...

A Review of Frank La Rocca’s Missa Pange Lingua 

Missa Pange Lingua is a musical work that leads the worshippers into the depth and beauty of the Mass itself. The processional...

Dana Gioia: Songwriter

On June 20, 2023, Fiat Lux, an oratorio-like liturgical work for singers and orchestra by the Scottish Catholic composer James MacMillan, world-premiered...

Tradition Renewed: A Feast of New Music for Corpus Christi

Tradition is a river, and without its quickening streams, life dries up, withers, and eventually, perishes.— Sir James MacMillan In a culture...

Fiat Lux: A Luminous Oratorio by Sir James MacMillan and Dana Gioia Comes Home

On June 20, in the glass-walled light-filled Christ Cathedral, I witnessed the birth of a modern Catholic masterpiece: Fiat Lux (“Let there...

Renewing Sacred Liturgy: Patriarch Sarto Shows Us How

As it is in our own day, so it was at the turn of the twentieth century: the situation of church music...

Metanoia: One Composer’s Catholic Journey

On May 19th I’ll be releasing my second album, Metanoia, published by the Polish label “DUX” and distributed internationally via Naxos. This...

+Cordileone on his new Mass for Life: “Gratitude for the immense gift of being loved by our Creator. Also, prayers for the souls of all those whose lives have been cut short.”

On January 21, 2023, the clear, sweet voices of the Chamber Choir of St. Brigid’s School will rise in a new choral...

Reflections on the Chesterton Carol

Sometime around 2010, contralto Imelda Franklin Bogue approached me to set the Christmas poem of G.K. Chesterton’s “A Christmas Carol” to music....

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