Children’s Choir album tops Billboard’s traditional classical album chart
The album is a blend of sacred music and jazz improvisation, featuring renditions of Advent and Christmas texts and melodies.
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ND Children's Choir Album Tops Classical Music Charts!
Sacred Music at Notre Dame is excited to announce that the Notre Dame Children’s Choir’s recording O Emmanuel debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Traditional Classical Music Chart!
Review: "O Emmanuel": Oh, Not Just Another Christmas Album
The new album from Dynamic Catholic is J.J. Wright’s bold experiment with a Christmas album that both surprises and challenges. It also brings unexpected delights of jazz to the season.
By: Christopher S. Morrissey
Register Now For Our 2016–17 Season
The University of Notre Dame's Sacred Music Academy will hold open auditions for singers up to age 17 to join the Notre Dame Children's Choir. NDCC is comprised of several ensembles with singers divided by age and ability. Learn more about our choirs here.
A New Movement for Sacred Music
The goal of Sacred Music at Notre Dame is to keep alive great musical traditions of the Western world. By training young people in the history and breadth of sacred music, the program aims to reinvigorate Christian churches through a new generation of parish musicians that can help lead liturgical services and also create new music.
New Lyric Choir Welcomes Singers with Special Needs
The Notre Dame Children’s Choir has initiated a new choir for singers with special needs, the Lyric Choir. For children ages 9 to 13, the Lyric Choir focuses on singing and experiencing sacred music in a welcoming choral community, musical instruction specifically geared to meet the abilities of students with physical, social, emotional, and/or intellectual challenges.