The 18th century orchestral mass repertoire comes with all sorts of questions for the liturgical musician. Is this repertoire properly called "Viennese"? Does this music really fit, in style and length, with the sacred liturgy? What does the Church have to say about this style of music? Are there any of these Masses that I can do with my choir? Dr. Erick Arenas of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music joins us to answer these questions, and to talk about the wonderful oeuvre of Johann Michael Haydn, the younger brother of the more famous Haydn.
To learn more about Dr. Arenas, click here: https://sfcm.edu/study/faculty/erick-arenas
To learn more about the Catholic Institute of Sacred Music, please visit: http://catholicinstituteofsacredmusic.org/
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