Installed a few months before Our Lady of Victory Church opened in 1895, the church giant pipe organ and its 2,300 pipes are ...
Professional music groups across the country have begun activation on Music for the Catholic Hymn Book, an improvement on the popular Catholic Hymn Book. Lawyer-cum-music enthusiast, Ikechukwu Eseka, ...
ST. JOSEPH (AP) – Greg Zyjewski has been playing the organ for about 40 years. But as he plays a hymn of praise on the new pipe organ at St. Joseph Catholic Church, his eyes light up like those of a ...
Trappist monks watch for Christmas differently than the rest of us, without colored lights, yard decorations or holiday parties. Instead of Bing Crosby or Mariah Carey, an Iowa monastery gets the ...
My boss asked me the other day if I knew anything about the hymn “Faith of Our Fathers.” Since I have been an organist in the Catholic Church for about 25 years now, I must have played the hymn dozens ...
Nearly every day for more than a year, Mike Wolf has spent time on his knees at St. Leo Church. He hasn't been praying -- though perhaps he should have been, given what he's been up against. The ...
In Jim Gallatin’s baby book, along with his first words and first steps, his mother noted the first time he heard an organ. He was 2 or 3 years old and was visiting his grandparents in Iowa. His ...
Mary Anne Tupa has rarely skipped a beat in six decades of playing piano and organ during Sunday Mass at Grand Forks' Holy Family Catholic Church. The only time Tupa, 94, has taken a break from ...
It was a bittersweet occasion, billed as “Bidding Farewell to the Schudi Pipe Organ” at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church. But, 45 years after creating something of a sensation on the Dallas organ ...
GRAND FORKS — Mary Anne Tupa has rarely skipped a beat in six decades of playing piano and organ during Sunday Mass at Grand Forks' Holy Family Catholic Church. The only time Tupa, 94, has taken a ...
How can we choose hymns and Sacred Music fit for Eucharistic celebration? The USCCB's document on hymnody levels the debate.
Hundreds of people filed into a West Town church to hear a once-silent 19-ton organ roar back to life. There were Methodists from Chicago’s South Side, Roman Catholics from across the city and suburbs ...