Sacred Music

Episode 69 - Paul Jernberg: How Can a Composer be Creative and Follow Divine Inspiration?

I’m with composer Paul Jernberg once again. Our starting point is the following excerpt from Musicam Sacram and the following statement:

Musicians will enter on this new work with the desire to continue that tradition which has furnished the Church, in her divine worship, with a truly abundant heritage. Let them examine the works of the past, their types and characteristics, but let them also pay careful attention to the new laws and requirements of the liturgy, so that "new forms may in some way grow organically from forms that already exist, and the new work will form a new part in the musical heritage of the Church, not unworthy of its past.

How does a composer balance the new with the traditional, proscribed forms with invention? Paul gives us his approach.

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Episode 55 - Dr. Lawrence Feingold: How an Art History Class Made a Theologian of Me

Episode 55 - Dr. Lawrence Feingold: How an Art History Class Made a Theologian of Me

Which painting would you rather contemplate on your deathbed? How this question in an art history class made a believer out of a young atheist Lawrence Feingold

Episode 39 - Paul Jernberg #6 Hesychasm, Nepsis and Theosis: the Special Spiritual Impact of Sacred Music

Episode 39 - Paul Jernberg #6 Hesychasm, Nepsis and Theosis: the Special Spiritual Impact of Sacred Music

One of the unique facets of Christian spirituality is contained in the way that sacred music speaks to the heart. This does not happen via the manipulation of emotion, rather the response of the heart preceeds emotion and is more authentic than it.

Episode 37 - Paul Jernberg #4, Sacred Music: How Do We Change the Situation in a Parish

Episode 37 - Paul Jernberg #4, Sacred Music: How Do We Change the Situation in a Parish

Here Paul Jerberg and I discuss what can be done to introduce good sacred music in your parish and the need for a formation for choir directors, priests and bishops. Sacred music is not just a matter of subjectivity - most priests and bishops seem to have lost sight of the fact that there are objective standards.