Olivier Messiaen Improvises on "Puer Natus Est"
Labels: Classical Music, Early Music, Musica Sacra, The Catholic Faith

"The superior man is catholic and no partizan. The mean man is a partizan and not catholic."
(君子周而不比、小人比而不周。) ─ Confucius, The Analects, 2.XIV, translation by James Legge.
Labels: Classical Music, Early Music, Musica Sacra, The Catholic Faith
Omnes Sancti et Sanctæ Coreæ, orate pro nobis.
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'Tisn't intuitive for the power of organs at Christmas, yet after our local diocesan high school won a local radio station carol singing contest
http://www.b101radio.com/christmas/choir/media/Bishop%20Shanahan%20High%20School-Do%20You%20Hear%20What%20I%20Hear.mp3
with the BingCrosby-crooner "Do you hear what I hear?" I discovered an interesting link between the French emigre composer of that piece and the great Messiaen - he had studied under him in Paris!
Interesting. I've always like that song. It's one of the carols my rudimentary guitar knowledge allows me to play.
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