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| THE DIRECTORS | |
Rev. Richard D. Baker |
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| Mr. Brian Zuar Archdiocesan Director of Music & Music Director & Professor, St. Joseph's Seminary 2000-2001 |
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Reverend Anthony D. Sorgie, Ed.D. |
Rev. Msgr. Richard B. Curtin |
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| THE PRODUCER | |
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| Reverend Stephen Challman Executive Producer Parochial Vicar, Church of the Holy Rosary, S.I. Dunwoodie Class of 1996 Recordings: Concert for Advent and Christmas A Treasury of Sacred Music A Treasury of Sacred Music Volume II A Jubilee of Sacred Music |
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| THE CHOIRS | |
| The Seminary Choir | ||
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The Gregorian Schola - part of the Seminary Choir | |
| For over one
hundred years sacred music has been an integral and vibrant part of St. Joseph's
Seminary. The resonance of the main chapel has brought to life a brilliant
repertoire performed by generations of seminarians and priests who have lifted their
voices in prayer. Each seminarian is invited to move from the technique of making
music to the joy of blending mind, heart, and voice in prayer. From 1896 to the
present, each visitor has delighted in chanting at the Liturgy of the Hours, the careful
preparation of Gregorian Chant, the heavenly Roman polyphony and hymns sung by the choir
and the schola cantorum, the timbres of the organ leading and accompanying worship, and
most recently, the sounds of many and varied instruments for liturgy and concert to
delight the contemporary ear. The primary purpose of the Seminary Choir is to serve the liturgical life of Dunwoodie. For the past 14 years they have been joined by the men and women of the Festival Choir, in concerts and on recordings, bringing the music of the seminary to the greater community. -from Fr. Sorgie's essay on music and liturgy in |
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| The Archdiocesan Festival Chorale | ||
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The Advent/Christmas Concert - 1998, St. Joseph's Seminary Chapel |
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| In 1986, Fr. Sorgie invited women from the surrounding parishes to join the seminarians in a small concert of seasonal music for Advent and Christmas sung in the seminary chapel and open to the public. Today, this small group has grown into a 100 voice mixed choir of men and women representing some 35 parishes of the Archdiocese of New York. Together, with the seminarians, they sing the annual Advent/Christmas Concerts at the Seminary. In the past, one at St. Patrick's Cathedral and one Concert for Easter performed during the Centenary celebration at the Performing Arts Center of the State University of New York in Purchase, and several ordination ceremonies at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Dr. Jennifer Pascual now directs the Archdiocesan Festival Choral. | ||
| The Centennial Choir | ||
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Fr. Myles Murphy (center) and Fr. Andrew Carrozza of the Centennial Choir, join the Festival Choir in the 1997 Advent Christmas Concert | |
| As a tribute to
the seminary's centennial celebration in 1996-1997, Msgr. Richard Curtin and Fr. Anthony
Sorgie collaborated in an effort to assemble an anthology of sacred music featuring five
decades of seminary voices. Selections from the original reference recordings and
master tapes made by Msgr. Curtin in the 50's and 60's were remastered by Rev. Stephen
Challman, who at the time was a seminarian, but whose previous experience in music and
video production gave him the knowledge and ability to work with state-of-the-art digital
technology. Complementing the voices from the remastered tapes was a Centennial
Choir comprised of seminarians and priest alumni who were invited by Fr. Sorgie to join
the seminarians in a unique recording session. The membership of this choir
represents the ordination classes spanning from 1978 through 2000. The rich
one-hundred-year musical heritage of the seminary, performed by fifty years of Dunwoodie
men, is captured on A Treasury of Sacred Music and is a supreme example of the
collaborative work of the Church in the modern world. -from
Brian Caulfield's liner notes |
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