Music News
There’s a very thin layer between heaven and Earth. That’s how Monica Fitzgibbons describes her experience listening to the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles Sisters as they recorded Angels and Saints at Ephesus.
Evangelizing through the beauty of music
By Allison Hunwicks, The Catholic RegisterChris Bray is steadfast and earnest on record, steadfast and earnest on stage, steadfast and earnest throughout a simple phone call.
Unique organ festival comes to an end
By Allison Hunwicks, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Organix, the only festival of its kind in Toronto with its focus on the pipe organ, will cease to exist in its current form once the closing Gala Performance wraps up on June 7.
Organized Crime more than a novelty act
By Allison Hunwicks, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Anyone who has ever attended an organ recital knows that no good concert is complete without stilettos. At least, that’s according to hot and humourous duo Organized Crime, whose Betty and Veronica good looks, costumed antics and serious musical chops are turning the organ world on its head.
Opera tackles brutality inflicted upon Carmelites
By Allison Hunwicks, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - The Canadian Opera Company is delving into the turmoil of the French Revolution to tell the story of a group of Carmelite nuns who face death, and how they must rely on their faith in order to accept the horror of their situation to find peace.
Bishop Ryan’s ‘rock show choir’ going for gold
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterStudents from Hamilton, Ont.’s Bishop Ryan Catholic Secondary School are going for gold — again — at this year’s Heritage Music Festival May 1 to 5.
Student concert inspired by the Earth
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - The Earth matters to students and staff at Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts — it matters enough to inspire prayer, song and art.
In the good and true is God, says fiddler MacMaster
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterAs a theologian, Natalie MacMaster favours the toe-tapping, hand-clapping, step-dancing-around-the-kitchen-table school of theological inquiry. The Juno-Award-winning fiddler now has an honorary doctor of divinity degree to back up her theology.
Lionheart brings back 14th-century hymns of praise
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - The Renaissance has always been worth looking at — all those gorgeous paintings and striking sculptures — but it’s also worth a listen.
United in song, and blessed by the pontiff
By Allison Hunwicks, The Catholic Register“He looked right at me.”
Those words, expressed with both reverence and excitement, came from the mouths of almost every member of the Our Lady of Sorrows Ecumenical Choir, just after having been blessed by Pope Benedict XVI at the Papal Mass for the Presentation of Our Lord at St. Peter’s Basilica — certainly, given his resignation announced Feb. 11, one of his last celebrations as our Holy Father.
Steve Bell gives a different Christmas perspective
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterIn Keening for the Dawn: Christmastide, Steve Bell combines the Christmas theme with his folksy sound and a soft country touch.