Back by popular demand, one of the History Museum’s favorite groups, Schola Cantorum Santa Fe, performs "Echoes of Mary," seldom-heard sacred music dedicated to Mary from the cathedrals of Mexico City and Cuba to the capillas of northern New Mexico. Part of the programming series for Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World. Free with admission; Sundays free to NM residents and children 16 and under are free daily.
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The Schola Cantorum of Santa Fe was founded in 1990 by Dr. Billy Turney during his 25-year tenure as principal organist and Director of Music of Cathedral of Saint Francis in Santa Fe. Turney is a Santa Fe native and began his music studies with the Sisters of the Loretto Academy at a young age. He experienced the Sisters singing the chants of Vespers in the Loretto Chapel, an experience that helped shape his sacred music career. Turney studied Gregorian chant and polyphonic music of the Renaissance in Rome at the prestigious Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, and has the unique perspective of presenting this special sacred music in its’ intended context and environment.
Schola completed a 10-day performance tour of Italy in early 2013, presenting sacred music concerts and sharing its music ministry at the Benedictine Monasteries of Subiaco and Monte Casino, the Basilicas of Saint Anthony in Padua, Saint Mark in Venice, Holy Trinity in Florence and Saint Ignatius in Rome, and the Papal Basilicas of Saint Francis in Assisi, Saint Mary Major in Rome and Saint Peter in the Vatican. The tour culminated with Schola joining the Sistine Chapel Choir for the singing of a Papal Mass on the Feast of the Ephipany in Saint Peter’s Basilica. Schola’s maestro also had the distinct honor of playing the pipe organ for liturgies in the Basilicas of Saint Anthony in Padua, Saint Francis in Assisi and Saint Peter’s at the Vatican.
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