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Posted on August 28, 2019

Frank La Rocca: A contemporary composer on the countercultural duty of sacred music

Recently I discovered the contemporary composer Frank LaRocca. From his online bio: Trained as an academic modernist during his degree studies at Yale and University of California, Berkeley, La Rocca…

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Posted on July 14, 2019

Достойно есть (“Dostoyno est”/”It is Fitting”), Nine Sacred Pieces #5, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, sung by The Cambridge Singers

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Posted on April 25, 2019April 25, 2019

#ChoralMarch – the playlist

Not sure how many people care but here are the Choral March selections of, um, choral music in playlist form..

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Posted on March 31, 2019March 30, 2019

“O Believe , My Heart, O Believe!” – #ChoralMarch concludes March 31st with finale of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection”

It’s the end of my #ChoralMarch project. Thank you to those who commented kindly and Liked etc. I would like to go out on a high note, with the choral…

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Posted on March 30, 2019March 28, 2019

#MarchChoral: March 30th , “The Sound of Spirit” composed by Georgia Kelly, performed by Los Angeles Master Chorale

  It sounds like a Russian Orthodox Choral work, but “Sound of Spirit” is by the harpist/composer Georgia Kelly and is a setting of the Rig Veda.        

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Posted on March 29, 2019March 28, 2019

#ChoralMarch March 29th, “Sanctus” from “Missa Luba” – Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudoin

Like many I suspect, I was first exposed to this piece by its use in the film If…  I saw this in the Irish Film Centre (which is how I…

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Posted on March 28, 2019

#ChoralMarch, March 28th, Tonus Peregrinus “Viderunt Omnes (4 Part Organum)

Tonus Peregrinus’ Sacred Music From Notre Dame album featured here a few days ago. Today there is a stunning  selection from the same album – I can only say listen…

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Posted on March 26, 2019March 24, 2019

#ChoralMarch , March 26th. “Echo La Primavera”, Francesco Landini, performed by Anonymous 4.

Here is one minute seventeen seconds of the 14th Century Italian composer Francesci Landini performed by the vocal group Anonymous 4. With a title inspired by the circle of Inferno…

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