Sunday, May 15, 2011

Composer Kevin Allen to Conduct New Mass Setting

[caption id="attachment_391" align="alignright" width="234" caption="Kevin Allen"]Composer Kevin Allen[/caption]

On Sunday, May 22nd composer Kevin Allen will conduct his newly-composed Missa Rex Splendens at St. Francis de Sales Oratory in St. Louis. This new composition will be sung by the Oratory Choir with organ accompaniment. The Mass is based on the Gregorian Chant Mass VII of the same name.

Kevin Allen is highly regarded as a composer of opera, chamber and orchestral music. Mr. Allen has also developed a unique reputation as a composer of church music for the Roman Rite. His works, sacred and secular, have been performed in churches and concert halls throughout the United States and Europe.

Mr. Allen will be the featured guest on EWTN Live, Wednesday May 25th at 7:00 PM, repeated on Thursday, May 26th at midnight and 8 AM, and Sunday, May 29th at 3 AM. (All times are Central Daylight.) EWTN in St. Louis is on the Charter network channel 152 and on AT&T U-verse channel 562.

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