Exhibition runs March 19 - June 1
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…
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Join us for a Guided Walking Tour of "The Work of Our Hands" exhibition and panel discussion. The tour will commence at 4:00 p.m. in the Hesburgh Library Lobby and will continue to three sites across campus where liturgical vestments are exhibited. Guests will be guided through the Sacristy Museum…
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Join in this Lenten opportunity using works of art to pray the Stations of the Cross. This guided devotion will use the Snite Museum's collection of George Tooker's preparatory drawings for a Stations series he painted for St. Francis of Assisi Church in Windsor, Vermont in 1984. These drawings, which…
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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,…
Rowan Williams, renowned theologian and former Archbishop of Canterbury, will deliver…
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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:…
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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…
Screening of Pope Francis: A Man of His Word and Q&A with award-winning Director, Wim Wenders.
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…
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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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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Dante Now! A Divine Comedy Celebration
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…
To kick off this year’s ND Forum, Marilynne Robinson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and champion of the integral relationship…
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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?
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,…
The Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music's Gregorian Schola, a Vatican Choir from Rome, presents a Concert of Gregorian Chant.
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…
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