Tradition is a river, and without its quickening streams, life dries up, withers, and eventually, perishes.— Sir James MacMillan In a culture which prizes ephemeral
On June 20, in the glass-walled light-filled Christ Cathedral, I witnessed the birth of a modern Catholic masterpiece: Fiat Lux (“Let there be light), a
As it is in our own day, so it was at the turn of the twentieth century: the situation of church music was extremely wretched,
On May 19th I’ll be releasing my second album, Metanoia, published by the Polish label “DUX” and distributed internationally via Naxos. This is the story
On January 21, 2023, the clear, sweet voices of the Chamber Choir of St. Brigid’s School will rise in a new choral Mass commissioned by
Sometime around 2010, contralto Imelda Franklin Bogue approached me to set the Christmas poem of G.K. Chesterton’s “A Christmas Carol” to music. I was newly
Xanthe Kraft is a 28-year-old composer of sacred music. Her Speravit Anima Mea, a setting of Psalm 129 for violin and two voices, premiered at
American composer Daniel Knaggs premiered his Two Streams, a cantata based on Jesus Christ’s message of Divine Mercy for mankind, last fall in Houston, Texas.
Ask a well-informed American Catholic about church music in Canada, and you’ll probably hear, “There was the Huron Carol, and Healey Willan who wasn’t a
How does an artist approach the annals of history, walk amongst the hallowed treasures of Western society, and dare to deposit a work which may
