Sentences with phrase «sacred music»

There is an incredible body of sacred music that is beautiful, whether one believes in a god or not.

Because of this, it would be difficult to find a composer who wrote more sacred music.

I love music of all kinds, including sacred music.

Catholic art, along with the rich tradition of sacred music, continues to speak to people of differing cultural and religious backgrounds.

The Hirshhorn Museum announced Theaster Gates is curating a series of four performances at the Washington, D.C., museum that «will introduce unexpected and unexplored connections between sacred music, African and African American culture and history, theater, world dance and chant.»

Tigran Hamasyan merges ancient Armenian sacred music with jazz piano.

And compared to the amazing sacred music of the Renaissance and Baroque, by which the composers sought to glorify God through the sheer beauty and scale of their work, it sounds very paltry indeed.

But we must be rigorously analytical about sacred music.

And it pleases me to see confirmed that even the most secular parts of the industrial media sector understand what sacred music probably sounds like.

Some school chaplains or diocesan youth centres have tried hard to move towards better and more catechetical music for worship but the danger remains that this is of transient appeal and can become quickly outdated and a source of amusement unlike the perennial sacred music of the Church which was actually mandated by Vatican II.

Shea recorded more than 70 sacred music albums, according to the Billy Graham Evangelical Association.

And to help mitigate the learning curve associated with the various traditions of Orthodox sacred music, many websites offer video, audio, and print resources for overworked liturgists.

Finally, traditional sacred music has an objective quality which is at the same time palpable and introspective.

Whitney Houston's mom, Cissy Houston - herself a renowned gospel singer - was director of sacred music at the church for 54 years and is still a member there.

With influences including Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky, John Coltrane, African drumming, Balinese Gamelan and Hebrew sacred music, Reich's music has been a major inspiration for subsequent generations of musicians such as Brian Eno, Bang On a Can and Sunn0)-RRB--RRB-.

Performed / accompanies Yungchen Lhamo for Peter Gabriel's record label.Performed all over the world on stage and in churches playing Tibetan sacred music.

The collaborative performances engage «unexpected and unexplored connections between sacred music, African and African American culture and history, theater, world dance and chant.»

The castrato was mutilated for the rest of his life for the sake of sacred music.

Originally founded as a theological institute for lay education, the university now boasts ten faculties: theology, missions, history, philology, religious education, church arts, sacred music, sociology, information technology, and applied mathematics.

In his autobiography, Ellington admitted that «this encounter with Mahalia Jackson had a strong influence on me and my sacred music.»

The lyrics of Ellington's sacred music are so insistent and repetitive that it would be easy to dismiss them as mere formulas.

«Pastoral music,» in contrast to «sacred music,» is focused on helping the whole congregation express its worship with the fullest involvement.

Those who attend papal Masses are struck by the renewal of sacred music, the sense of reverence, and particularly the place of silence in the Liturgy.

I've had the benefit of exposure to the richness of Western culture: to great literature, and poetry, and sacred music.

Doesn't mean that I believe in the message of the lyrics; just that the great composers of the past relied on income from the church to survive and therefore wrote a tremendous body of sacred music.

SRP also offers recordings of sacred music.