Margarita writes:

Two years ago today, on July 23, 2022, David and I celebrated our wedding surrounded by family, friends and beautiful sacred music. Today, we are delighted to share with you a new playlist with examples of great sacred music being composed today that were performed at the Princeton Theological Seminary Chapel in June 2024. You can see the program from this amazing event here.

This playlist also features my conversation with world-renowned composer and conductor Sir James MacMillan and Peter Carter of the Catholic Sacred Music Project, who organized the amazing summer institute on sacred music. As part of his work as music director of the Aquinas Institute at Princeton University, Peter welcomed me and David into his choir where the repertoire includes compositions by master composers Sir James MacMillan and Paul Jernberg. The music we sing with Peter, and the music you will hear on this playlist, is noble in its beauty and accessible to today’s church choirs.

The amazing music on this playlist is just one tributary in the river of tradition flowing to create new sacred music. In the coming weeks, we will share amazing choral performances by student conductors and choristers. We will also share two more hours of conversations with Sir James MacMillan where he discusses how faith, silence, harmony and chant are all responses to the stifling abyss of modernism and Marxism.

Here are several videos that have been produced already:

Discussion with MacMillan and Carter, June 15, 2024
What led James MacMillan to say that the Catholic Sacred Music Project, led by Peter Carter, is the most creative response he has seen to the crisis of sacred music? Listen to the full conversation here.

New Sacred Music Premiered in Princeton, June 15

Check out our playlist of sacred music, which features three of the eight incredible performances of sacred music that premiered at the Princeton Theological Seminary chapel: Sir James MacMillan’s Give Me Justice;

Paul Jernberg’s Mass for Holy Men and Women;

William Fritz’s Oculi Ominum;

 and a chant from a daily Mass at the Princeton University chapel led by a student conductor.