Six Strings and the Sacraments: a Liturgical Guitar Webinar by Steven C. Warner

Six Strings and the Sacraments

March 7, 2023 – 8-9:30 pm Eastern Time

Cost: Included for all levels of NPM Membership

A few generations ago, no one would’ve even considered the guitar a valid instrument
for worship – especially within the Catholic family. So much has changed in those intervening years!

The guitar, when played well, brings a sense of closeness – perhaps the word is immanence –

to the liturgical landscape. How can it be played well? How can one progress, by way of expertise,

from the simple to the more complicated to the more complex? What principles of music theory
and understandings of harmonic structure should the guitarist embody?
A repertoire-based evening, we’ll look at guitar playing from a variety of perspectives, and, if we’re

lucky, we’ll all learn a bit more!

About the Presenter: Steven C. Warner

Steve Warner (B.A. Religious Studies, St. Michael’s College; M.A., Liturgical Studies, University of Notre Dame); Founder and long-time Director of the Notre Dame Folk Choir and most recently, founder of the Newman Vocare Ensemble and Associate Director of the Notre Dame-Newman Centre in Dublin, Ireland.

He joined ND’s Campus Ministry staff in 1979, continuing there for more than thirty-five years. By 2016 the Folk Choir, begun in 1980, had more than 60 singers and instrumentalists, their repertoire spanning all styles and languages.

“Songs of the Notre Dame Folk Choir,” began with World Library Publications of Chicago, IL, in 1990, with about 100 octavos published. The Mass of Charity and Love and Mass for Our Lady became nationally published settings for the Eucharist.

In 2016 he became Associate Director of the Notre Dame-Newman Centre for Faith and Reason, at St. John Henry Newman’s University Church in Dublin, Ireland. The choir he founded, the Newman Vocare Ensemble, released their first album with GIA Publications in 2020. Upon his departure from Ireland (in 2021), a former chorister stepped forward and created an endowment in the liturgical arts, naming it after Steve. Most recently, he has completed The Passion According to Saint John, a musical setting for the Good Friday liturgy (now published by OCP), and is working with several archdioceses as a liturgical consultant.