{"id":306544,"date":"2018-10-08T23:10:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T21:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/church-and-composers-convention\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:38:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:38:16","slug":"church-and-composers-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/church-and-composers-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Church and Composers Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cWe strongly feel the urgency of evangelization, and we realize that music can have a great impact in this regard,\u201d says singer and songwriter, Nancy Uelmen from the Gen Verde International Performing Arts Group<\/a>. She was one of the participants at the convention from the Focolare Movement. The convention lasted three days and was promoted by the Pontifical Council of Culture<\/a> under the guidance of Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi. The convention was named \u201cChurch and Composers: Word and Sounds.\u201d Besides the speakers, there were also 110 representatives<\/strong> from different Bishops Conferences and academic institutions from many countries, including several composers. The reflection began with \u201cMusic and Word<\/strong>\u201d, which focused on memory, intelligibility and meaning. Then came \u201cMusic and Gospel<\/strong>\u201d, which allowed for a presentation of several personal and communitarian experiences of life and the impact of different musical and compositional styles. Finally, \u201cMusic and Instruments<\/strong>\u201d was more technical and focused on diverse sounds that culminate in the human voice. \u201cWe also discussed the great need of evangelizing with music, beyond the context of liturgy<\/strong>,\u201d Uelmen recalls. \u201cIt\u2019s the time for courageous expressiveness,\u201d commented Msgr Marco Frisina, composer and director of the Diocesan Choir of Rome, Italy.

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Photo credit: Pontifical Council for Culture<\/p><\/div> Nancy explains: \u201cI was entrusted with a workshop, on the second day, which I called \u201cSpirituality and Composition in the New Evangelization<\/strong>\u201d. I wanted to take a look at the situation of today\u2019s youth and the call we all feel of \u201cgoing out to the peripheries\u201d with our \u201cStart Now\u201d project, in order to reach the most disadvantaged. I also gave a few pointers on how the spirituality of unity helps us to move from \u201cMe\u201d to \u201cUS\u201d in the composition process<\/strong>, using several of our recent songs as examples.\u201d \u201cIn the afternoon,\u201d says Nancy, \u201csome time was dedicated to ecclesial movements<\/strong> with a roundtable open to everyone at the convention. Three of us spoke: Luciana Leone, from the Renewal of the Spirit<\/strong>, composer Pippo Molino from Communion and Liberation<\/strong> and me from the Focolare. We talked about our approaches and prospectives on musical life in the Church: liturgically and also in other fields. I gave a brief presentation on the role of music in the Movement, and then I recounted the specific experience we are bringing ahead with Gen Verde, for example, making music both for and with the youth<\/strong>.\u201d

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Photo credit: Pontifical Council for Culture<\/p><\/div> Besides the important expositions of international musical personalities from in the Church<\/strong>, there were also many opportunities for sharing and dialogue with many of the participants. In particular with several representatives from the movements and associations, with whom we share the desire to collaborate with one another more. In fact, we felt a need to \u201cgo out\u201d together towards the people who don\u2019t get close to the church and, through music, we believe that we can do much.<\/strong>\u201d The convention concluded in Assisi with a concert in the Major Basilica<\/strong>, within the framework of \u201cFrancesco Siciliani\u201d, an international concourse on Sacred Music, executed by the St Jacob\u2019s Chamber Choir<\/strong> of Stockholm, directed by Gary Graden<\/strong>. See program<\/a> of convention<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the role of composers in the musical life of today\u2019s Church? A group of biblicists, liturgists, educators, theologians and musicians tried to respond to this question at a convention in Rome, Italy (Sepemtember 13-15). A recount by Nancy Uelmen from the Gen Verde International Performing Arts Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}