Past Programs
Pop - 2008
A Walk on the Quiet Side
12/09/2008
Singer-songwriters take over this week, with Catholic rocker Mike Mangione, and Lou Reed, who has taken up various spiritual practices like tai chi and meditation. We also feature Texan-born Beth Nielsen Chapman and her Human Family Songbook, better known as her new album Prism, a collection of devotional music from the world's religious traditions. We dip into Beth's 2004 album Hymns, liturgical music sung mainly in Latin. She's described the music as the liturgical hits of her Catholic childhood. And there's room for a little Mozart.
Those Who Sing Pray Twice
18/07/2008
We take to the streets to hear the rousing songs of Catholic pilgrims in Australia for World Youth Day. From passionate Spanish hymns sung on the steps of St Mary's Cathedral to the soulful songs of Malaysian and Central American pilgrims, and from Korean chants to Australia's own 'singing seminarian', Robert Galea.
We also hear some of the official music for World Youth Day, including the WYD08 theme song 'Receive the Power', sung by Guy Sebastian and Paulini, and an excerpt from the Mass Setting commissioned by George Palmer, a Gregorian chant version of the 'Pater noster'. And to round out an eclectic mix, there's a unique fusion of the secular and the sacred, acid jazz meets Gregorian Chant, with the Australian group Resonaxis.
