Posts Tagged ‘Music’

Church minister’s album at number 6 in NZ charts Comments 0

Friday, April 26th, 2013
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Songwriter and musician the Reverend Malcolm Gordon, 31, recently stepped out of full time pastoral ministry as a Presbyterian Church minister to concentrate on his music, with no expectation that his album would become a commercial success or find listeners outside of a Christian audience. He is genuinely surprised to find his album in the Read more

Congregation for Divine Worship is restructured Comments 0

Friday, November 16th, 2012
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The Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments has been restructured. The main change is an office to promote the development and use of appropriate liturgical art, architecture and music. The office will provide advice, encouragement and guidance, but it will not attempt to impose specific styles, according to Marist Father Anthony Ward, undersecretary Read more

Hato Paora piano teacher plays final tune for school she loves Comments 0

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

In 1985 Rosalyn Williamson filled in as piano teacher at Hato Paora College for a day and a half. Twenty-seven years later, she has retired from teaching at the school.

“I found it so wonderful to hear the boys sing I realised what a special place this was right from the first day,” said Mrs Williamson – or Whaea Roz as she is known to the students.

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Crackdown on church architecture imminent Comments 2

Friday, November 25th, 2011
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Following on from a new translation of the Mass in English, Vatican Insider reports the Congregation for Divine Worship will establish a new team to regulate church architecture and promote singing in the liturgy. The team will be tasked to put a stop to garage-style churches and boldly shaped structures and, it is reported, will have Read more

Study: A Generation’s Vanity, Heard Through Lyrics Comments 0

Friday, May 6th, 2011
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A couple of years ago, as his fellow psychologists debated whether narcissism was increasing, Nathan DeWall heard Rivers Cuomo singing to a familiar 19th-century melody. Mr. Cuomo, the lead singer and guitarist for the rock band Weezer, billed the song as “Variations on a Shaker Hymn.” Where 19th-century Shakers had sung ” ‘Tis the gift Read more