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unusual facts about Sacred Music



Albert Garzia

He completed his B.A. (Hons.) in Music Studies (with First-Class Honours) read concurrently with a Diploma in Sacred Music - both majoring in Composition at the University of Malta.

Bologna School of music

They include Cazzati, Perti, G. B. Vitali, Torelli and Corelli (who had Bolognese links although he mainly worked in Rome); the school is associated with sacred music and particularly with the rise of the instrumental concerto and sonata, including music for trumpet and strings, a Bolognese speciality.

Jerónimo Francisco de Lima

He wrote a number of operas, which were performed in Lisbon; among his other compositions are a number of sacred works, including a Dixit Dominus and a Magnificat for four voices with basso continuo.

K. Lee Scott

Lee Scott (born 1950 in Valley, Alabama) is an internationally known teacher, musician, conductor and composer of sacred music, choral music and hymns, residing in Birmingham, Alabama.

Millstatt

In summer the "Musikwochen Millstatt" (Millstatt Music Weeks) festival performs various concerts in and around the monastery church including sacred music, choral and classical works as well as jazz, chamber music, piano and organ recitals.


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Anton Armstrong

Armstrong also teaches conducting in the Sacred Music department at Luther Seminary.

Dalla terra

# Pianto della Madonna - 1:46 - (Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), from the collection of sacred music "Selva morale e spirituale" (1640))

David Hurd

He holds honorary doctorates from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, and Church Divinity School of the Pacific, given in recognition of his contributions to Sacred Music.

Francesco Feo

Feo retired from teaching, but continued to compose sacred music for Neapolitan churches, including the Santissima Annunziata Maggiore, where he become maestro di cappella in 1726.

High Park North

Legend has it that St. Cecilia, the patron saint of sacred music, was chosen as the new name because the Heintzman Piano factory stood in view, across the railway tracks, from the school.

Jellico, Tennessee

Jellico was the childhood home of Grace Moore, soprano star of opera, musical theatre, and film, and Homer Rodeheaver, hymnwriter, trombonist, and pioneer in the recording of sacred music.

Karl Proske

Proske was a pioneer in the field, and the fact that his editions reflected only the German, Flemish, and Italian repertoires - excluding Spaniards for the most part, though he did include Victoria - does not diminish his amazing contributions to Sacred music.

Koodalmanikyam Temple

Each day of the festival, a seeveli (procession of caparisoned temple elephants) is held twice, once in the morning and once at night, to the accompaniment of Panchari melam (sacred music).

The last two days of the festival feature Panchavadyam (sacred music from an orchestra of five instruments), and the festival ends at the Thiruvonam asterism.

La Chaise-Dieu

French pianist Georges Cziffra started an annual festival of sacred music in La Chaise-Dieu in 1966.

Leonardo Leo

A fine and characteristic example of his sacred music is the Dixit Dominus in C, edited by CV Stanford and published by Novello.

Mariam Cannon Hayes School of Music

A fully accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Music, the Hayes School of Music offers undergraduate programs in music education, music performance, theory/composition, sacred music performance, music therapy, and music industry studies as well as Master of Music degrees in performance, music education, and music therapy.

Mason Neely

He is a member of sacred music collective Bifrost Arts and has served as a composer, arranger and musical director for the BBC, RTÉ and S4C networks and scored advertisements for Best Buy, Cisco Systems, Domino's Pizza and Crispin, Porter and Bogusky, as well as the award winning 2007 feature Low and Behold.

Master of Sacred Music

These programs are located at the Boston University School of Theology, College of Jewish Music's H.L. Miller Cantorial School, Duquesne University, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion's School of Sacred Music, Emory University, Southern Methodist University, the University of Notre Dame and Yale University's Institute of Sacred Music.

Paul Manz

Trinity Seminary of Columbus, Ohio bestowed the “Joseph Sittler Award for Theological Leadership” and among his many honorary doctorates is the Doctor of Sacred Music degree from Valparaiso University, and most recently, the Doctor of Music degree from St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota.

Rita Montaner

:— First concert of sacred music: sings selection from Stabat Mater of Rossini, as contralto.

Ruth Cunningham

She was a founder member of Anonymous 4 and specializes in improvisational sacred music in liturgical and concert settings.

Sacred Concert

A compilation of Duke Ellington's three Sacred Concerts, or the first one, called A Concert of Sacred Music

Scotland in the early modern period

James V, as well as being a major patron of sacred music, was a talented lute player and introduced French chansons and consorts of viols to his court, although almost nothing of this secular chamber music survives.

Simon Boyleau

A prolific composer of madrigals as well as sacred music, he was closely connected with the court of Marguerite of Savoy.

St. Wilfrid Club

The founders named the club in honor of Saint Wilfrid (c.633 - c.709), an influential English bishop known for his strong advocacy of sacred music.

W. A. Criswell

Divorced with two sons, Mabel Ann possessed an exceptional operatic voice and recorded three albums of sacred music in the late 1960s and early 1970s, two with the Ralph Carmichael orchestra.

Yuval Ron Ensemble

Some notable performances include: the International Sacred Music Festival of Fez (Morocco), International Oud Festival and peace tour (Israel), World Festival of Sacred Music (Los Angeles), headlining the Dalai Lama’s “Seeds of Compassion” benefit concert (Seattle), the International Peace Festival (South Korea), as well as concerts in Mexico, Spain, Turkey, and Poland.