Spirituality
Cantus Jubilus Premiere

Cantus Jubilus, a work for unaccompanied choir and soloists, received the world premiere on April 30, 2011 at St. Olaf Catholic Church in downtown Minneapolis. In the concert of music for choir and organ, the University Singers of the University of Minnesota under the direction of Kathy Salzman Romey, Matthew Mehaffey, and Matthew Olson, along [...]

Old Town Organ Vespers

St. Michael in Old Town Church is home to one the few remaining Kilgen pipe organs in the city. Dr. Nagy, the Parish’s Director of Music and Organist is keenly interested in raising awareness in the Chicagoland community of this rare type of pipe organ, as the Parish undertakes a restoration of the pipe organ [...]

10th Jan 2011Posted in: Aesthetics, Blog, Music Theory, Spirituality 0

I embarked on my harmonic pilgrimage with my first composition teacher, more than a decade ago in Zagreb, Croatia. Prof. Marko Ruždjak[1] so patiently engaged with me in what became countless hours of discussions on musical harmony while I had been writting out multiple voices in the species of the rigorous counterpoint of Giovanni Pierluigi [...]