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
PROGRAMME
Tradition and innovation in sacred music in the Christian
Churches
Thursday 25 January 2001
Sacred music and its links to culture, liturgy and devotional practices
morning 9.00 – 12.45
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
afternoon 15.00 – 18.00
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
Friday 26 January 2001
Viewpoints on composition and the questions of how and where music ought to be
heard.
morning 9.00 – 12.45
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
afternoon 15.00 – 18.00
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
Saturday 27 January
Relations with institutions and society: commissioning, publishing and
teaching sacred music.
morning 9.00 – 11.00
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
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