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The St. Louis Jesuits, a group of Catholic composers who popularized an Easy Listening/folk music style of church music through their compositions and recordings, mainly from their heyday in the mid `70s through the mid `80s. The group, made up of Jesuit scholastics at St. Louis University, originally used acoustic guitars and contemporary-style melodies and rhythms to set biblical and other religious texts to music sung in English in response to the liturgical reforms of Vatican II. Without intent, a groundswell of popularity took place when college students, scholastics and women religious took mimeoed or dittoed copies of their new music back to their communities where it became known as music by "The St. Louis Jesuits." == History == In a situation similar to that which involved The Singing Nun some ten years earlier, the scholastics' intent was to collect and make a recording of their music, in this case before finishing their studies at St. Louis University so that it would be available to others after their graduation. Some of the music was recorded in the basement of Fusz Memorial Chapel, the rest at a local studio. This first collection of 58 songs, some dating back as early as 1964, was called ''Neither Silver nor Gold''. Later, this recording was issued as a four-cassette/LP set in 1974 by North American Liturgy Resources. It has since been remastered into a two CD set by OCP Publications with about a half a dozen songs left off the LP/cassette version due to space limitations. Over time, Bob Dufford, S.J., John Foley, S.J., Tim Manion, Roc O'Connor, S.J., and Dan Schutte, and their music became known as the St. Louis Jesuits. At the time, all were members of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuit order), however Manion would never complete his studies there or become ordained. He continued to collaborate with the group until 1984. Pursuing different vocations and graduate studies afterward, the group reunited several times between 1975 and 1985 to write and record their various collections of music, published at the time by North American Liturgy Resources and available now through Oregon Catholic Press. As they continued their studies and time permitted, they presented numerous workshops and presentations about liturgy and liturgical music at conferences throughout the United States and Canada. Their second recording, ''Earthen Vessels'' sold over one million albums, 〔Gale, Mike. "The St. Louis Jesuit: Thirty Years" Oregon Catholic Press 2006 archives ]〕 and as a result, beginning with hymnals such as ''Glory and Praise'' their music became standard repertoire in Catholic parishes across the country. Beginning in their height of popularity between 1975-`85 and continuing to this day, it is estimated that over 80% of the current Catholic hymnal contains either songs actually written by one or more members of the group or written in the style they pioneered. By the early 1980s the music of the St. Louis Jesuits began to be widely used throughout English speaking Catholic parishes in other countries as well, and many of their more popular hymns continue to enjoy a wide penetration, not only finding their way into most Catholic hymnal publications, but those of many mainline Protestant denominations such as Anglican, Lutheran and Presbyterian as well. In addition, some hymns have even been translated into other languages such as Chinese, French, German, Korean, Polish, Spanish and Vietnamese, and have garnered wide acceptance in those areas as a result.〔Library of Congress Archives, ( )〕 In 1980, all five members moved to Seattle, where they continued to study and compose new music under the direction of Kevin Waters, S.J. at Seattle University. Tim Manion left the group in 1984, to pursue other interests but later released a solo collection, ''There is a River.'' After their fifth album, ''The Steadfast Love'', was recorded in 1985, the members began to release solo collections as the demands of their Jesuit vocations took them to different parts of the world. Dan Schutte left the Jesuit order in 1986, but like the others, continued to compose and publish solo collections of music. In 2000, Dufford, Foley, O'Connor, and Schutte made a surprise appearance at the National Association of Pastoral Musicians. This spurred them to write and record a collection of new music to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of their collaboration. This recording entitled ''Morning Light'' was released in 2005 along with an anniversary coffee table book titled, "The St. Louis Jesuits: Thirty Years" Oregon Catholic Press 2006. Tim Manion, who no longer is writing liturgical music, sang on the anniversary collection. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St. Louis Jesuits」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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