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It is a conference devoted to promoting choral music and drama in Catholic schools, held at Belmont Abbey College June 20-22. We plan to use it to begin networking among school practitioners and launch a national organization to encourage the inclusion of choir and drama as central curricular elements.
Speakers include, Fr Brad Elliott, John Bergsma, Lawrence Feingold, Matthew Levering, Fr Michael Lang
This is organised by Peter Carter's Catholic Sacred Music Project in partnership with, among others, the Scala Foundation (for whom I serve as Artist-in-Residence. The program will be held June 16-21, 2024, in Princeton, NJ. For more information, go to sacredmusicproject.org.
The fruits of a traditional artistic training in the formation of the person are such, I would say, that it would be useful too (with minimal adaption) for anybody, regardless of his personal vocation. And so would be of interest not just to artists, but to all people; (and especially those who are interested in the formation of children). It is a training in the via pulchritudinis and is the formation of the New Evangelisation, I suggest.
Do you want to study choral singing with Gabriel Crouch, Sir James MacMillan and Paul Jernberg? Go to sacredmusicproject.org and sign up. Catholic Sacred Music Project Choral Institute, June 9-15, Princeton, NJ