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Earthen Vessels: Music from St. Louis Jesuits, 40th Anniversary Edition (CD) ROBERT J. DUFFORD, SJ; JOHN B. FOLEY, SJ; ROBERT F. O'CONNOR, SJ; DANIEL L. SCHUTTE. PORTLAND, OR: OCP, 2015. $20.00.
My first encounter with the music of the St. Louis Jesuits (SLJ) was as a Baptist seminary student in Berkeley, California, in the late 1970s. Many of the chapel services at American Baptist Seminary of the West were enhanced by learning and singing the music of five Jesuit seminarians who were writing and sharing a new style of congregational music for Catholic worship; I was not the only Baptist to find this "new song" revelatory and a welcome addition to the assembly's repertoire.
My peers and I were further excited to know that the SLJ spent several weeks in Berkeley at the Jesuit School of Theology, during the summer of 1974, in order to live and pray together and continue their musical collaboration. This work, leading to Earthen Vessels (1975), became...