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  • Incardination
    Posts: 832
    In your charity, please remember in your prayers during this month of the Holy Souls, Dr. Helmut Roehrig who just passed away earlier today. A professor and department chair of the music department at Xavier University in Cincinnati, the founder and long-time conductor of the Musica Sacra Chorus, a gifted organist and director of music for Christ the King church in Cincinnati.

    Mentor for many musicians, and friend of many more - his loss is keenly felt in the music community of Cincinnati.

    Requiescat in Pace.
    Thanked by 5StimsonInRehab CHGiffen M. Jackson Osborn CharlesW NihilNominis
  • StimsonInRehabStimsonInRehab
    Posts: 1,934
    I'd mention another name I knew from my time in Detroit - Thomas Kuras. Choir director, composer, and musical prodigy - youngest member of the AGO at twenty years of age. Died 20 years ago of cancer. I had the opportunity to see his tombstone in the cemetery opposite Fr. Casey's monastery. The square notes are still there, as mentioned in the wonderful article below. Keep him in your prayers as well.

    http://www.musimem.com/kuras_eng.htm
    Thanked by 3eft94530 CharlesW Incardination
  • CharlesW
    Posts: 11,982
    May their memories be eternal.
    Thanked by 1StimsonInRehab
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