Beauty in Sacred Music:
Philosophical Foundations and Practical Strategies
CMAA is offering a “Fall Virtual Workshop” October 14-16, 2021, with live internet presentations on sacred music starting at 4:30 pm Eastern Time Thursday and Friday and 10:00 am Eastern Time on Saturday.
Basic registration is free, and includes the daily Spiritual Reflection and daily Night Prayer.
Registration for breakout sessions (indicated in bold below) is $20 per day, or $50 for the entire workshop. (Note: registration for the Spanish-language sessions on Friday is free of charge.)
Thursday, October 14, 2021
- 4:30 pm (ET) Welcome and Spiritual Reflection – Rev. Robert Pasley
- 5:10 pm – 6:25 pm (ET) Beauty and Evangelization, Monsignor Andrew Wadsworth, Exec. Director of ICEL (English) (1 hour)
- 6:45 pm – 8:00 pm (ET) The Fundamental Trajectory of Aesthetic Education – Dr. Jennifer Donelson-Nowicka (English) (1 hour)
- 8:20 pm – 9:35 pm (ET) TBD (English) (1 hour)
- 9:55 pm (ET) Night Prayer
Friday, October 15, 2021
- 4:30 pm (ET) Spiritual Reflection, Rev. Robert Pasley
- 5:10 pm – 6:25 pm (ET) Beauty in the Jesuit Model of Evangelization, the Jesuit Reductions – Lisa Knutson (English) (1 hour)
- 5:10 pm – 6:25 pm (ET) Achieving a Beautiful Tone when Singing Gregorian or Spanish-Language Chant – TBD (Spanish)
- 6:45: pm – 8:00 pm (ET) Gems of the Polyphonic Repertoire that a Parish Choir Can Sing Beautifully – Dr. Horst Buchholz (English) (1 hour)
- 6:45: pm – 8:00 pm (ET) The necessity of Beauty in the Liturgy (Spanish) – Fr. Rhodes Bolster (Spanish)
- 8:20 pm – 9:35 pm (ET) The Beauty of Children’s Voices and Beauty in Sacred Music Education Programs for Young Singers – Mary Ann Carr Wilson (English) (1 hour)
- 8:20 pm – 9:35 pm (ET) Beautiful Sacred Music in the Context of a Spanish-Language Liturgy(Spanish) – Jose Ballon (Spanish)
- 9:55 pm (ET) Night Prayer (Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary, Lancaster county, NE, Nicholas Lemme, conductor)
Saturday, October 16, 2021
- 10:00 am (ET) Holy Mass – Votive Mass of St. Joseph (EF), Rev. Robert Pasley [live-streamed from Mater Ecclesiae Parish, Berlin, NJ] Offered for the intentions of CMAA donors.
- 1:15 pm – 2:30 pm (ET) Achieving Beautiful Choral Tone – TBD (1 hour)
- 2:50 pm – 4:05 pm (ET) COVID-19 Research and Risk Mitigation in Choral Singing, Dr. Jennifer Donelson-Nowicka (1 hour)
- 4:25 pm – 5:40 pm (ET) Beauty and New Compositions – David Hughes (1 hour)
- 6:00 pm (ET) Night Prayer (St. John the Evangelist Basilica, Stamford, CT, Nicholas Botkins, choirmaster)
