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February 8, 2015

Musical treasures discovered almost by accident

In putting together a critical evaluation of a possible “Canadian school” of Catholic liturgical composition, Robin Williams, came across five boxes of Msgr. Edward Ronan’s liturgical compositions at St. Michael’s Choir School, which was founded by Ronan. Williams, along with a choir school student, catalogued and digitized his findings and they will be released this month as free downloads on the school’s web site.

TORONTO - Very soon church choirs around the world will have 900 manuscripts of music, most of it lost, forgotten and long out of print, available for free download from the St. Michael’s Choir School web site. The music, almost all of it liturgical and most of it set to Latin texts, was written by Msgr. John Edward Ronan, founder of Toronto’s St. Michael’s Choir School.

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