Publishing Choral Music in a Changing World
2020-10-15
Remembering Colin Mawby
2020-07-15
by Aurelio Porfiri, composer, conductor, writer and educator
Some weeks ago, out of the blue, I learnt of the death of the British composer …Read More →
A Different Musical Understanding
2020-01-15
A Different Musical Understanding
by Aurelio Porfiri, composer, conductor, writer and educato…Read More →
Lorenzo Perosi's Mystery, Celebrating a great master 60 years after his death
2016-07-09
by Aurelio Porfiri, composer, conductor, writer and educator
The world of Church Music has seen several turning points between the19th and 20th centuries. Most readers will probably know of the reforms …Read More →
System Theory And Choral Music
2016-01-15
by Aurelio Porfiri, composer, conductor, writer and educator
In a world as connected as the one we are living in, it is not difficult to think in a connected way, rather than in tiny segments of knowledge. Knowledge is one,…Read More →
The Issue of Modernity in Choral Music
2013-10-15
Aurelio Porfiri
choral conductor and teacher
It is common for opinions on the value of a piece of choral music to be given regarding its conformity to a category defined as ‘modernity’, a cat…Read More →
Missing the Sign: Gregorian Chant and Semiology
2013-04-15
By Aurelio Porfiri, choral conductor and teacher
Gregorian chant has known a strange twist of fate in recent decades: on the one hand, implementation of the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) m…Read More →
A Choral Storm in Cincinnati
2012-10-15
Some Reflections on the Seventh Edition of the World Choir Games
Aurelio Porfiri, choral conductor and teacher
Between July 4 and 14, 2012, the ‘great city of Cincinnati’ (as the Amer…Read More →
The Future of Tradition
2011-10-15
The Choral Music of Domenico Bartolucci
By Aurelio Porfiri, Choral Conductor, Organist and Teacher
Today the word ‘tradition’ sounds strange for many people. This word is highly estee…Read More →