Pure Christmas Joy Across the Centuries The Chant Café

Friday, December 21, 2012

Pure Christmas Joy Across the Centuries

Posted by Kathleen Pluth

Written by Blessed Henry Suso (d. 1366), arranged by Johann Sebastian Bach, sung in our day by The Sixteen.

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Catholic liturgical music is serious, solemn, transcendent, but Catholic musicians are never more fun and inspiring than when they are talking about what they love most. This is what happens at sacred music events around the world: the social and intellectual are critically important elements. The musicians (and music enthusiasts) at the Chant Café, a project of the Church Music Association of America, bring that sense of life and love to the digital world. As St. Augustine said, "Cantare amantis est."

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Arlene Oost-Zinner, programs director CMAA and chant director St. Cecilia Schola | archive
Adam Bartlett, Director of Sacred Music, Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral, Phoenix, and Editor of Illuminare Publications | archive
Kathleen Pluth, S.T.L, hymn writer and catechist.
Fr. Christopher Smith is a priest in Beaufort, SC, currently studying in Paris | archive
Jeffrey Tucker, managing editor Sacred Music journal and polyphony director St. Cecilia Schola | archive

Adam Wood, church musician and writer at Music for Sunday.

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