Tate Pumfrey
Tate Pumfrey is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario, where he studied music. Originally from Thamesville, ON, he is a composer, and is pursuing a master's of composition at York University, beginning in the fall of 2020. His goal is to bring people to God through his compositions, and has recently self-published a collaboration of 24 new Catholic hymns.
Henry Walpole and William Byrd
Tertullian’s oft-quoted phrase, “the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church,” immediately evokes scenes of the early Christians in the Roman...
The Last Gospel as the Mass in Miniature
The prologue of the Gospel of St. John (Jn 1:1–14), often referred to as the Last Gospel, forms part of the concluding rites of...
Nicholas Ludford: A Forgotten Master of English Polyphony
Among the composers of Renaissance England, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd are easily the best known, but they are not the only composers to...
A Few Advent Musical Selections
With Advent beginning, I wanted to share some musical selections for this time of waiting. Some will hopefully be familiar, and others will be...
Charles Tournemire and L’Orgue Mystique
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, France produced a number of famous organist-composers, such as Louis Vierne, Charles-Marie Widor, Marcel Dupré, Maurice...
Beauty Bereft: What a Steam Tractor Can Tell us About our Culture
It is winter in Saskatchewan. My dad, brother, and grandmother came from Ontario back in mid-November to visit for the first time since I...
A Heritage Lost? Jean Langlais and Post-Conciliar Sacred Music
Catholics have sung our praise to God for the entirety of the Church’s history. For at least a thousand years, Gregorian chant formed the...
Marcel Tyberg – a Forgotten Composer of the Holocaust
In the 75 years since the end of the Second World War and the Holocaust, it is still hard to say how much the...
A 21st Century Dies Irae – in Conversation with Composer Thomas Crow
Please introduce yourself and your relationship with Faith and Music.
My name is Thomas Crow and I am a Catholic Composer from Wakefield in England....
The Surviving Salve Reginas in England
England has long been called Our Lady’s Dowry despite her official departure from the Catholic Faith during the 16th century. In 1534, King Henry...
