A 2018 exhibition in New York City, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters, brought wide public attention to the history and artistry of liturgical vestments. Titled "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," it included some papal vestments borrowed from the Vatican Museums, and a great many outfits by leading international fashion designers. This inspired an examination of Notre Dame's own treasury of handmade liturgical vestments, with appreciation for the devout creativity, skill, and humility of their mostly anonymous artists, and without losing sight of their proper purpose, functionality, and symbolism. To that end, four exceptional items have been carefully selected from Notre Dame's collection of liturgical vestments as part of this multi-venue exhibition across campus. Visitors are encouraged to stop at each venue on a self-guided tour to learn more about these works and the generative effect of faith.…
The National Lutheran Choir sets out on tour with Kim André Arnesen's magnificent work for chorus and strings, Holy Spirit Mass.
Bishop Kevin Rhoades of the Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne - South Bend and Bishop William Gafkjen of the Indiana-Kentucky Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will offer brief reflections on friendship and between Christian churches. …
Professor Kay Shelemay will speak on the musical traditions of Syrian Jews. Professor Shelemay, G. Gordon Watts Professor at Harvard University, is an ethnomusicologist and leading authority on Jewish music. Her timely and groundbreaking work on Jewish communities from Syria and their migration throughout the world explores the many ways that the art of music sustains identity and culture in times of turmoil. …
Location: 136 O'Neill Hall, LaBar Performance Hall
4:00 p.m. Dr. John Graham (Ph.D., Princeton University) is a leading authority in the history and practice of Georgian chant, and is joined in this lecture and concert by 12 singers from the Republic of Georgia. This vibrant tradition of sacred and secular music features three-voice polyphonic settings with close exploration of a single band of sound. SMND students who traveled to Georgia on Alice A. Martin Fellowships will host the musicians from Georgia. …
The annual International Crèche Exhibit and Pilgrimage brings together the Notre Dame community to view nativity sets from across the world. The exhibit features crèches on loan from the Marian Library at the University of Dayton. The family-friendly pilgrimage, held in early December, travels across campus to various buildings where the nativity sets are displayed. The pilgrimage includes prayer, Scripture readings and song.…
The Vita nuova is based on Dante’s desire to combine religious and secular erotic culture. In his libello Dante solves the tension between these two cultures with a syncretic attitude. This talk will analyze a few specific passages showing how, throughout the Vita nuova, these two cultures are continually intertwined. Indeed, the most influential studies conducted on the Vita nuova…
Rowan Williams, renowned theologian and former Archbishop of Canterbury, will deliver a keynote lecture as part of the 2018-19 Notre Dame Forum.
Co-sponsored by “Religion & Literature,” a Notre Dame journal housed in the Department of English, Williams will present a talk titled, “Relieved by Prayer: Power, Shame and Redemption in Shakespeare’s Drama,” in the Dahnke Ballroom at 5 p.m. Nov. 26 (Monday). A reception will follow the lecture. This event is free and open to the public.…
Theologian Jeremy Begbie, of Duke Divinity School and Cambridge University, will give the inaugural Calvin M. Bower Lecture in the LaBar Performance Hall, O'Neill Hall, Wed. November 14 at 7 PM. His topic is: “Circling around the Triduum: James MacMillan’s Musico-Theological Vision.” Professor Begbie is a systematician who works on aesthetics, and especially at the intersection of music and religious thought and experience. This lecture will examine the ways that the music of a leading Roman Catholic composer is integrally bound up with his vision of Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection. …
All are welcome to join Campus Ministry, Holy Cross Mission Center, and the Notre Dame Folk Choir for a celebration of African-American sacred music in a concert entitled "Catch the Spirit." The 25th Annual Concert for the Missions…
What is the proper relationship between God, the human person, and the state? Inspired by the life and work of Nobel Prize-winning author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, on the occasion of his centenary, the Center for Ethics and Culture's annual Fall Conference will consider how every human pursuit can be oriented toward higher powers and reflect on the true measures of social progress, the role of morality in law and politics, and the dynamics of liberty, dignity, self-sacrifice, and the good in public life. …
This concert will feature music selected to illuminate sacred art in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, as interpreted by the Notre Dame Women's Liturgical Choir and soprano soloists Elizabeth Schleicher and Jamie Caporizo. Participants will be invited to follow the Women’s Liturgical Choir throughout the church as they explore particular visual and aural expressions of the Catholic faith and devotion. …
Students and faculty from Sacred Music Notre Dame and the Department of Music provide introductions to their work. Featured will be Opera Scenes; the Notre Dame Children's Choir; Organists and Pianists; Notre Dame Chorale and Glee Club; Concordia, a graduate professional choir specializing in sacred music; chamber music ensembles; voice students from the Department and Sacred Music Notre Dame.…
This Grammy-Winning Vocal Ensemble will launch our new recital hall with their innovative production styles, and will feature a work of sacred music by Notre Dame composer John Liberatore. Boston Globe says: “...it’s essence is pure joy!” Free and open to the public, but first come, first served; hosted by Sacred Music Notre Dame and the Notre Dame Department of Music.…
Dante’s Divina Commedia is one of the most, if not the most quoted book in the works of Primo Levi. In many books or chapters, often across several pages in a row, we find either explicit references or allusions to Dante. Since a systematic approach is impossible, a symptomatic approach will be proposed in this lecture. Professor Franceschini will consider:…
Location: Leighton Concert Hall, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Legendary jazz musician and composer Arturo Sandoval headlines a festive Christmas in September event. Enjoy secular and sacred Christmas music plus preview a documentary on the making of the Choir’s CD with Sandoval. Tickets are available for purchase here.…
Friday, Sept. 28, from 2-3pm, starting at the Annenberg Auditorium in the Snite Museum of Art and ending at the Grotto. Join the Center for Italian Studies for its annual Dante Now! event, dedicated to performing and understanding Dante’s Divine Comedy. This year Professor Christian Moevs will kick off the event with an illustrated public talk that will be broadcast live to participants at Notre Dame’s Global Gateway in Rome…
To kick off this year’s ND Forum, Marilynne Robinson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and champion of the integral relationship between faith and art, will be in dialogue with John Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C., and Glynn Family Honors Associate Professor, Susannah Monta, at 7 p.m. Sept. 19 (Wednesday) in the Dahnke Ballroom of the Duncan Student Center. This event will be free and open to the public. If seeking seating for a class or group, please email Clare Mundy…
Dr. Jennifer Pascual, Director of Music and Organist at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, describes her work as the head of a large program in a major Roman Catholic Center. How does she find room for the treasures of the past in the Church of the present?…
Location: St. Joseph's Catholic Church, 225 S. Mill St., Mishawaka
Haydn's "Lord Nelson Mass" and Handel's "Zadok the Priest" are two of the most admired and beloved pieces in classical music. The Conducting Studio of the Sacred Music Program at Notre Dame, with the Concordia Choir and the Ritornello Orchestra will present both works under the direction of Ryan Peteraf, on the 220th anniversary of the premiere of Haydn's Mass. Haydn dedicated the Mass to great British hero Horatio Nelson, whom he admired greatly, after the piece was composed and premiered. The work has been interpreted as representing the composer's unfailing faith in the midst of the tribulations of the Napoleonic Wars. The audience also will recognize "Zadok the Priest" as the anthem performed at the coronation of Elizabeth II and all English monarchs since 1728.…
Sacred Music Notre Dame sponsors a lecture and presentation on the singing of Gregorian Chant, featuring Dr. Karl Prassl and twelve choristers from the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome. Professor Prassl and the choristers will also be giving a concert in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Sunday, sponsored by Campus Ministry.…