INTERNATIONAL SACRED MUSIC CONGRESS

The Pontifical Council for Culture - Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

in co-operation with
The Pontifical Istitute of Sacred Music - Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

New Synod Hall, Vatican City, 25-27 January 2001

Presiding
His Eminence Cardinal Paul POUPARD
President of the Pontifical Council for Culture

Moderator
Giovanni Carli BALLOLA
Member of the Academy of Saint Cecilia – Professor of the History of Music – University of Lecce, Italy

9.00 Introductory meditation
Benedictine monks from the Abbey of Saint Anselm on the Aventine will sing

9.10 Opening address
His Eminence Cardinal Paul POUPARD
President of the Pontifical Council for Culture

9.20 Talks
Marco FRISINA: "Sacred Music between culture and liturgy"
Director of the Liturgy Office – Vicariate of Rome

Lorenzo FERRERO: "The ritual music of Christians?"
Composer - Milan

Katherine DIENES-WILLIAMS: "Contemporary liturgy: musicians’opportunity or nightmare?"
Composer and organist – Norwich, United Kingdom

10.20 Break

10.40 Talks
Leopold M. KANTNER: "Lascivum aut impurum aliquid (Council of Trent): the character of sacred music today and in former times"
Professor of Musicology - University of Vienna, Austria

Roberto LEYDI: "Traditional liturgical music in Italy from the Motu proprio "Tra le sollecitudini" to Vatican II"
Professor of Ethnomusicology – University of Bologna, Italy

André GOUZES: "Liturgy: divine memorial and human memory"
Composer – Abbey of Sylvanès, France

11.40 Discussion

Presiding
LUCIANO BERIO
President of the Academy of Saint Cecilia - Rome

Moderator
Valentino MISERACHS
Head of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music

15.00 Introduction
Luciano BERIO

15.10 Talks
Carlo GALANTE: "Sacredness at the very heart of existence. Reflections of a composer"
Composer – Milan, Italy

Antonios ALYGIZAKIS:"The Philosophical and theological background of ecclesiastical music"
Professor of Byzantine Chant and Musicology – University of Macedonia- Thessaloniki, Greece

Fabio VACCHI: "Sacer Sanctus"
Composer – Milan, Italy

16.10 Break

16.30 Talks
Dom Daniel SAULNIER : "Gregorian chant since the second Vatican Council"
Director of Musical Palaeography – Abbey of Saint-Pierre de Solesmes - France

Claus-Eduard HECKER: "Sacred music in the Christian Churches: tradition and innovation"
Landeskirchenmusikdirektor – Wolfenbüttel, Germany

17.10 Discussion

Presiding
Alberto BASSO
Member of the Academy of Saint Cecilia & President of the Institute for Musical Heritage in Piedmont – Turin, Italy

Moderator
Father Bernard ARDURA
Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture

9.00 Introductory meditation
The choir of the Pontifical Romanian College will sing.

9.10 Introduction
Alberto BASSO
Member of the Academy of Saint Cecilia & President of the Institute for Musical Heritage in Piedmont – Turin, Italy

9.20 Talks
Carlo PEDINI: "From sacred music to liturgical music: reflections and recommendations concerning the situation in Italy"
Composer, Artistic director of the Umbrian Music Festival – Perugia, Italy

Riccardo PIACENTINI: "Talking to 250 composers about the sacred: the outcome of a study day in Turin"
Composer and essayist – Turin, Italy

Daniel NAZARETH: "The sacred music of the Catholic Church in India"
Orchestral conductor – Bombay, India

10.20 Break

10.40 Talks
Xu CHANGJUN: "The current situation of sacred music in China – A Chinese composer’s view"
Assistant director of the Department of composition of the Central Conservatory – Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Enrico FUBINI: "Jewish music today and its use in the context of the synagogue"
Professor of the History of Music – University of Turin - Italy

Edwin SEROUSSI: "The dimension of sound in the Jewish liturgy: examples from the Italian traditions"
Jewish Music Research Centre – Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Israel

Louis EL-HAGE: "Christian song in the Middle East"
President of the Federation of Institutes, Faculties and Academies of Arab Music – Universiity of the Holy Spirit - Kaslik, Lebanon

12.00 Discussion

Presiding
Gianluigi GELMETTI
Principal Conductor – Teatro dell’Opera di Roma

Moderator
Irma RAVINALE
Composer – Rome, Italy

15.00 Introduction
Gianluigi GELMETTI
Principal Conductor – Teatro dell’Opera di Roma

15.10 Talks
Marco TUTINO: "Access to the sacred"
Composer - Milan, Italy

Roman VLAD: "Stravinsky’s liturgical music"
President of the Rome Philarmonic Academy - Rome, Italy

Pascal IDE: "The school of Olivier Messiaen"
Member of staff at the Congregation for Catholic Education

16.10 Break

16.30 Talks
Marta LAMBERTINI: "Latin American composers and sacred music"
Composer – Buenos Aires, Argentina

Norah DUNCAN IV: "The development of contemporary African American Musical Expressions in the Church in North America"
Orchestral conductor and Organist - Detroit, United States of America

Dom Dominique CATTA: "From Solesmes to Ker Moussa. An example of inculturation in Africa"
Prior – Abbey of Ker Moussa, Senegal

17.30 Discussion

Presiding
Mimma GUASTONI
Vice-Administrator – Musica per Roma

Moderator
Agostino ZIINO
Member of the Academy of Saint Cecilia – Professor of the History of Music – University of Tor Vergata - Rome, Italy

9.00 Introductory meditation
Claudio Dall’Albero will conduct the Santa Cecilia Polyphonic Choir

9.10 Introduction
Mimma GUASTONI
Vice-Administrator – Musica per Roma

9.20 Talks
Michele DALL’ONGARO: "A future for sacred music: teaching and commissioning"
Composer and consultant for music programmes at Rai-RadioTre - Rome, Italy

Jean-Paul LÉCOT: "Congregational singing: a great opportunity for liturgy"
Musical director and organist at the Shrine of Lourdes - France

Peter RYOM: "Lutheran hymns in the cultures of Scandinavia"
Musicologist – Copenhagen, Denmark

Sister ANNA: "Sacred music in the Russian Orthodox Church"
Monastery of Saint Nicholas – Kaliningrad, Russian Federation

10.40 Discussion

11.00 Conclusion