Summer Ward Method Courses • CUA 2022
Study the Ward Method this summer in Washington, DC.
Catholic Youth Choirs
How to Help Children Match Pitch (part III)
Three more tips on what to do and how to act with your young music students. Learn the secret ingredient of success!
How to Help Children Match Pitch (part II)
Got your kids singing in head tone? Good. Next, try these two tips to eliminate obstacles to their success.
How to Help Children Match Pitch (part I)
It all starts with teaching your kids to sing in head tone. Here are some ideas on how to do it.
The Real Reason Why Some People Don’t Match Pitch
(Keven Smith) • I’ve come to realize that the vast majority of “tone-deaf” people aren’t really tone-deaf at all. They just haven’t been trained to coordinate their voices with their audiation+
Real Life in a Large Church Choir Program (Part IV of IV)
We come now to the final installment in my series on our music program at St. Stephen the First Martyr Catholic Church in Sacramento, California.
Real Life in a Large Church Choir Program (Part III)
Far from being a mere complement to our parish choir, our young Choristers are, quite frankly, its core.
Real Life in a Large Church Choir Program (Part II)
Yes, children as young as seven or eight will focus and listen as you’re teaching them solfege scales, rhythm patterns, beautiful Latin vowels, and more!
Real Life in a Large Church Choir Program (Part 1)
At St. Stephen the First Martyr Church in Sacramento, the road to the choir loft begins at age four and is paved with furry puppets.
Our children must at the very least be exposed to the great music of the Church.
Traditional hymnody is often easier to sing: simpler melodically and rhythmically, and generally more substantive in theology.
Flash Mob • Franz Biebl’s “Ave Maria”
A special celebration of the Annunciation 2019
New Resource! • Chant Videos for Treble Voices
A new website seeks to record the full Gregorian propers each week using a treble voice.
Sacred Music Camp in Allentown, NJ
New Opportunity for Children Grades 3–12
Sacred Music Camp for Children in Philadelphia
The Inaugural “Cantate Domino” Festival
Album: Sacred Treasures of England
Reflections on a recently released album of English choral music
What Do Catholic Teenagers Sing?
A lesson in presumptions and realities
Dunwoodie Chant Conference • Review of a Successful Event
I was renewed in spirit for a future filled with hope for liturgical music.
Dunwoodie Sponsors New Sacred Music Conference
“Gregorian Chant in Pastoral Ministry and Religious Education” — March 10 & 11, 2017
World Youth Day Krakow: Music Recordings
Seventeen (17) Tracks Now Available on iTunes
A Different Kind of World Youth Day
Sacred Music Helped to Transform Tauron Arena Kraków into a House of Prayer