Frank La Rocca’s Search for the Sacred (Part 1)
Editors’ note: This is the first of a three-part profile of Frank La Rocca, a composer who lives in the Bay Area. La Rocca also
Editors’ note: This is the first of a three-part profile of Frank La Rocca, a composer who lives in the Bay Area. La Rocca also
The search for the sacred, from the composers’ point of view, often begins as a confluence of personal connections and practical need. Such is the
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I came to this church forty years ago. A young American, I was lusty for churchy antiquity. The musty hymn books, worn pews and tiny
“TheTheoArtistry Festival: Sacred Music for the 21st Century” is a groundbreaking new initiative by the greatest living Catholic composer Sir James MacMillan. On March 4
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