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Arvo Part

Daniel Esparza

Arvo Pärt at 90: Stillness for a noisy world

Catholic Music Awards

Christine Rousselle

Here are the 1st-ever Catholic Music Award winners

Anna Kurian

When Mozart proved himself a child prodigy at the Vatican

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I.Media

Leo XIV pays tribute to Palestrina, master of 16th-century sacred polyphony

Yo-Yo Ma at Notre Dame Reopening

J-P Mauro

Yo-Yo Ma gives Notre Dame’s acoustics a test drive

Valdemar de Vaux

10 Beautiful requiem Mass settings

The Italian tenor and singer Andrea Bocelli

Cerith Gardiner

The way Andrea Bocelli helped Hamas hostage survive captivity

Lucy a 13-year-old who is blind and neurodiverse played a highly-complex Chopin piece - The Piano - Channel 4

Cerith Gardiner

Blind and neurodivergent 13-year-old gives stunning Chopin rendition

Beethoven

J-P Mauro

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 has never been more dramatic

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I.Media

Orthodox opera singer has unlikely friendship with Pope

J-P Mauro

Did you know the sad song from ‘Platoon’ is a Catholic hymn?

Rachmaninoff choral hymn

J-P Mauro

This rare Rachmaninoff choral work was nearly lost to obscurity

OPERA SINGER

Cerith Gardiner

Opera singer’s unusual performance honors the Virgin Mary and motherhood

YO CANTO

Merche Crespo

352 singers perform Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus in spectacular pandemic style

Bach-Archiv · Bachfest Leipzig

Kathleen N. Hattrup

Benedict XVI praises an arrangement of Bach that relates life of Christ

CONCERT

J-P Mauro

Watch Pope St. John Paul II’s 100th birthday concert online

CRUCIFIED CHRIST

J-P Mauro

Bach’s St. John’s Passion to live stream on Good Friday

J-P Mauro

14-year-old Catholic student is a prodigious composer

Arvo Pärt

Daniel Esparza

The Orthodox maestro Arvo Pärt was the most performed contemporary composer in the world for eight years in a row

CLASSICAL MUSIC AND PETS

Cerith Gardiner

What happens when shelter dogs listen to classical music

Daily prayer

And today we celebrate...

Prayer for the Morning

Meditation of the Day

Prayer for the Evening

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The patron saint of travelers is not who you think

The patron saint of travelers is not who you think

This is why the priest kisses the altar at Mass

This is why the priest kisses the altar at Mass

Music is what God intended, says Pope Leo

Music is what God intended, says Pope Leo

What Matt Damon gets right about a happy marriage

What Matt Damon gets right about a happy marriage

Here’s a full list of all the Doctors of the Church

Here’s a full list of all the Doctors of the Church

This is why Satan hates the Brown Scapular

This is why Satan hates the Brown Scapular

What precisely is a mortal sin in the Catholic Church?

What precisely is a mortal sin in the Catholic Church?

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