by Jenny | Mar 3, 2023 | Episodes
The long and impressive career of Dr. Christoph Tietze, Director of Music at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco, makes for an interview that covers a lot of ground, including helpful tips for improving one’s improvisation skills, steps to take if...
by Jenny | Feb 27, 2023 | Episodes
Questions about how to sing Gregorian chant can get a little thorny when people who love the chant and have a lot of experience singing it get together. For a newcomer to chant, these questions can seem irrelevant or overwhelming, especially when it’s not clear...
by Jenny | Feb 10, 2023 | Episodes
What was it like for a Renaissance-era composer to navigate the liturgical changes of an ecumenical council, and to have a theological outlook on Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception (later vindicated as the Church’s own view) that was different from that of...
by Jenny | Feb 6, 2023 | Episodes
Starting from the impact of a post-war style of academic training on his compositional voice through his search for a greater capacity for expression in the use of tonality, Dr. Frank La Rocca narrates the journey he took from the influences of the severe style...
by Jenny | Feb 2, 2023 | Episodes
His Excellency, Steven J. Lopes, Bishop of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter and Chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Divine Worship, offers reflections on the work of God in the sacred liturgy, the relationship of artistic beauty to the truths of the...
by Jenny | Dec 26, 2022 | Episodes
Our Christmas gift to you is one of the most special interviews we’ve yet had the opportunity to present on this podcast. Naji Hakim joins us to discuss the impact of the sounds of his youth on his musical imagination, his training as a young musician, his study...
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