Tag Archives: Palestrina

“Today’s Cathedral Coffee Break”

Posted on September 2, 2022 by marklangley

While on a recent summer pilgrimage to St. Louis (the “Rome of the West”) with twenty-five of my students at Our Lady of Walsingham, we were able to visit at least eleven different magnificent churches for which the city is … Continue reading →

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Palestrina and Handel March For Life!

Posted on January 21, 2019 by marklangley

Yes, both consummate sacred musicians George Frideric Handel and Giovanni  Pierluigi da Palestrina were at the 2019 March for Life! I am guessing that this was yet another record-setting precedent for the annual March which attracted hundreds of thousands of people … Continue reading →

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This School Choir May Have Just Made History

Posted on December 9, 2018 by marklangley

In what might be a new world record, or perhaps simply a first of its kind choral accomplishment, the fifty-five voice Lyceum Choir sang back to back liturgies – one in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, celebrated by Cardinal … Continue reading →

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The Lyceum: Making the Extraordinary Ordinary

Posted on June 2, 2013 by marklangley

Yesterday The Lyceum celebrated its Ninth Annual Commencement Exercises and as is now traditional the day began with Holy Mass. I think an alternate motto for The Lyceum should be “making the extraordinary ordinary” because that is what happens just … Continue reading →

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Sacred Music and Catholic Classical Education

Posted on March 18, 2013 by marklangley

There is no doubt about it. Every  Catholic School ought to provide an enormous focus on singing Sacred Music. By providing an enormous focus on singing Sacred Music I mean: 1. Every student ought to be required to sing– even students with … Continue reading →

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