Monday, October 05, 2009

New Catholic Music, Around the World

Here is a Kyrie by Kim Suho and sung by Logos Choir at the Myeongdong Cathedral, Seoul Archdiocese, South Korea on June 13, 2009. It's very beautiful and transcendent. From what I can tell, the bulk of new music called "multicultural" - music that departs most radically from the Gregorian sensibility - is being produced and distributed in the Midwestern United States, and, meanwhile, there is vast growth of actual sacred music in places such as Korea.

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