Angelico Sacred Music
Cathedral in Sound
The Mission
The mission of Angelico Sacred Music is to create a Cathedral in Sound. This Cathedral will be a patrimony of sacred musical art for American Catholic patrimony of sacred musical art, composed of neo-renaissance polyphonic pieces of music, totaling 76 in number (in symbolic homage to our nation’s founding in 1776). This musical art will be gradually, carefully crafted by a team of American composers, and completed over the course of two to three decades.
Further, a cathedral is a piece of art that stands long after its architects and builders are gone. Likewise, Angelico is distinguished from sacred music groups focused on trainings, performances, or conferences, because once we create this musical art, it will remain in being for the rest of time. Completed with the help of prayers and donations from a voluminous number of people over many years, our cathedral in sound will stand as a monumental work of art that we can admire together, and that we have created together, for the glory of God and the beauty of the Church.
The Cathedral in Sound will be a lasting, artistic testament to the beautiful faith that can be found in 21st-century America. Just as we today look with reverence upon the French Gothic style of church architecture, or the Roman Renaissance style of painting and sculpting, Angelico’s vision is that one day, when people from all nations and every age look back upon the 21st-century Church, they will say,
"That is when the Americans took the lead, and created their beautiful music that brought Heaven down to earth."
A Living Art
The Cathedral in Sound is bringing this vision to life by uniting American Catholics as we take a stand for musical art, a stand for beauty, and a stand for hope. The Church's best days do not all lie in the past; rather, sacred music is, and always has been, a living art!
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