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 TORONTO - St. Michael’s Choir School in Toronto is releasing From Courts on High, a recording with 25 different selections of sacred music.
The school has been providing sacred music for religious services at St. Michael’s Cathedral since its founding in 1937, and has evolved into a centre for musical and academic excellence recognized worldwide. It is affiliated with the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome.
Both organ music and Gregorian Chant are featured in this compilation which includes every student of St. Michael’s Choir School.
The Elementary Choir, the Junior Choir, the Senior Choir and alumni soloists in turn deliver performances such as “Ave Maria,” “Laudate Dominum omnes gentes,” “Thou Royal Knights from Courts on High,” “De profundis,” “Prayer of St. Francis and Justorum animae.”
The pieces include works by today’s choral director, Dr. Jerzy Cichocki, to works from the school’s founder, Msgr. John Edward Ronan. The director of the school, Fr. John-Mark Mission, describes the rich recording as a historical legacy.
“The music chosen for this recording illustrates ways in which the Choir School has furthered the church’s treasury of sacred music, giving the church in Canada a 70-year legacy of composers and arrangers who have created or enhanced our liturgical music through successive generations of the school,” Mission said in a press release.
The CD is available through St. Michael’s Choir School, (416) 393-5518. Order forms are available at www.smcs.on.ca .
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