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Concerts offer opportunity to grieve following pandemic

When Marek Rachelski thought back over the time since the COVID-19 pandemic, he felt that people who lost someone during that period needed an opportunity to heal. A good way to do that, he thought, would be a requiem concert.

Jazz pianist, composer Mary Lou Williams focus of Loyola talk

Mary Lou Williams isn’t exactly a household name, not like Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonius Monk or Charlie Parker, all of whom she worked with.

A simple invitation led one musician to a life in the church

If you attend a major event for African American Catholics in the Archdiocese of Chicago, chances are that you will see Tyrone Pittman leading the choir and playing the piano.

St. Agatha choir releases its first Gospel recording

The choir at St. Agatha Parish is hoping to spread the Good News well beyond the walls of the church at 3147 W. Douglas Blvd.

School choirs sing at Pueri Cantores festival

Children from more than a dozen area Catholic choirs sang at the Chicago Choral Festival and Mass presented by the American Federation Pueri Cantores on Feb. 23, 2019, at Holy Name Cathedral. AFPC is the official music organization for students in the Catholic Church and organizes choral festivals and Masses for parish and school choirs around the United States.

Pioneering Catholic started free music school for children

Perhaps Rita Simó did not have the most auspicious introduction to the Catholic community in Chicago.

Twenty-Something

Belinda Monahan has analyzed more than 100,000 animal bones in Armenia dating back from the Early Bronze Age (1,200 BC) to the Medieval period.

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