Strictly speaking, a 'te deum' is a ritualistic prayer with a celebratory tone, usually chanted by clerics or other men and women who have taken holy orders. But many composers have used Latin te deum ...
The greatest performance of the greatest masterpieces of religious choral music, conducted by Jochum, known as a Bruckner ...
On Dec. 31 every year, the pope leads the Church in a solemn prayer of Thanksgiving to God for the civil year coming to a close. It takes place in St. Peter’s at the end of First Vespers for the ...
Jean Baptiste Lully is the only person ever known to have suffered Death By Conducting. The Italian-born composer who became the Surintendant de la musique de la chamber du roi (the Superintendent of ...
1. "Lord, is this the hour?": how often man asks this question, especially in history's dramatic moments! He has an acute desire to know the meaning and dynamics of the individual and community events ...
Pope Francis, who was scheduled to preside at the singing of the Te Deum in St. Peter’s basilica on December 31, bowed out of that role, but delivered a homily at the annual service. The Pontiff ...
Half-Jewish by birth, Catholic by creed, and deeply opposed to the rise of the far right in Weimar Republic Germany, Walter Braunfels (1882-1954) wrote his Te Deum in 1922 as a reaffirmation of his ...
As the Christmas Octave and the year 2025 draw to a close, the Catholic Church invites us to pause prayerfully and do something that is right and just, our duty and salvation, always and everywhere: ...
With the death of British choral composer John Tavener in 2013, we are left with a single living composer of similar distinction: Arvo Pärt. Estonian by birth (b. 1935), Pärt emigrated from the ...
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