Event Title
Music and the Jesuits
Department
Music
Location
Henry M. Hogan Campus Center
Start Date
6-4-2019 9:30 AM
End Date
6-4-2019 10:45 AM
Description
The idea that the Jesuits are or were hostile toward the cultivation of music persists today despite a generation of scholarship that has shown otherwise. In order to preserve the flexible and itinerant nature of a Jesuit vocation, Ignatius and the first members of the Society of Jesus insisted on dispensing with the common recitation or chanting of the liturgical hours (the Divine Office), which had defined life in religious orders up until that time. But far from suppressing music, the engagement of the Jesuit order with all aspects of music and music culture has been profound. The purpose of this class is to introduce alumni and friends to some of the many extraordinary ways the Jesuits have engaged in the field of music, then and now.
Music and the Jesuits
Henry M. Hogan Campus Center
The idea that the Jesuits are or were hostile toward the cultivation of music persists today despite a generation of scholarship that has shown otherwise. In order to preserve the flexible and itinerant nature of a Jesuit vocation, Ignatius and the first members of the Society of Jesus insisted on dispensing with the common recitation or chanting of the liturgical hours (the Divine Office), which had defined life in religious orders up until that time. But far from suppressing music, the engagement of the Jesuit order with all aspects of music and music culture has been profound. The purpose of this class is to introduce alumni and friends to some of the many extraordinary ways the Jesuits have engaged in the field of music, then and now.