Now Available! • “Hymns of Cardinal Newman: Kevin Allen’s Legendary Choral Settings”
Including a group photograph of Sacred Music Symposium 2025.
Pope Saint Paul VI (3 April 1969): “Although the text of the Roman Gradual—at least that which concerns the singing—has not been changed, the Entrance antiphons and Communions antiphons have been revised for Masses without singing.”
Including a group photograph of Sacred Music Symposium 2025.
Even if I live a hundred years, I’ll never forget last week’s conference!
Dr. Kutarna teaches liturgical music courses at the University of Saint Thomas in Houston, Texas.
I find this melody hauntingly gorgeous.
To help my volunteer choir members learn, I have attempted to record all the vocal parts for Justorum Animae, composed for SOPRANO, ALTO, and BASS. It’s from a brilliant collection by Kevin Allen called Matri Divinae Gratiae. You can hear my attempt by visiting this website and scrolling down to “Justorum Animæ.” My singers really […]
These pieces for “SAB” (Soprano, Alto, Bass) were commissioned by our organization for the National Eucharistic Revival.
A gift from The Catholic Sacred Music Project and the Benedict XVI Institute
Installment 3 • “How Has Nobody Done This Before?” (series)
As singers performed this Kevin Allen piece, they wept—but crying is bad for singing technique!
J. F. M. kindly made us aware of the following video clip, which features Kevin Allen.
The Vatican’s choir sounds beautiful these days—no longer is it “the scandal of Christendom.”
I could not function as a choirmaster without this collection.
I am deeply grateful to faith-filled choral singers because of their willingness to understand these 10 things
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