7085 Wed Mar 03, 2010 @ 12:45 PM Music | Wednesday Organ Demonstration
w/Samuel Soria, Cathedral Organist
Recital Cathedral
7086 Wed Mar 10, 2010 @ 12:45 PM Music | Wednesday Organ Recital
w/Samuel Soria, Cathedral Organist
Recital Cathedral
7177 Sun Mar 14, 2010 @ 12:45 PM Music | Wednesday Organ Demonstration
w/Samuel Soria, Cathedral Organist
Recital Cathedral
7088 Wed Mar 17, 2010 @ 12:45 PM Music | Wednesday Organ Demonstration
w/Robert Woolsey
Recital Cathedral
7089 Wed Mar 24, 2010 @ 12:45 PM Music | Wednesday Organ Recital
w/Samuel Soria, Cathedral Organist
Recital Cathedral
7090 Wed Mar 31, 2010 @ 12:45 PM Music | Wednesday Organ Demonstration
w/Samuel Soria, Cathedral Organist
Recital Cathedral
7176 Wed Apr 07, 2010 @ 12:45 PM Music | Wednesday Organ Recital
w/Samuel Soria, Cathedral Organist
Recital Cathedral
7178 Wed Apr 14, 2010 @ 12:45 PM Music | Wednesday Organ Demonstration
w/Samuel Soria, Cathedral Organist
Recital Cathedral
7179 Wed Apr 21, 2010 @ 12:45 PM Music | Wednesday Organ Recital
w/David Brock
Recital Cathedral
7180 Wed Apr 28, 2010 @ 12:45 PM Music | Wednesday Organ Recital
w/John Cannon
Recital Cathedral


Human beings sang long before they were able to express their thoughts, voicing in simple imitation sounds they heard in nature, the twitter of birds, the rustle of leaves, the howling of coyotes. Primitive man sang to invoke the gods with prayers and incantations, to celebrate rites of passage, to recount history and heroics. There is no human settlement, no matter how distant or isolated, that does not sing.

Congregations of Jews in 500 BC sang King David's Psalms and The Song of Solomon. After the 4th Century when Christianity was recognized as the official religion of the Roman Empire, the Catholic Church developed Western music for the next thirteen centuries, evolving from plainchant to highly developed polyphonic choral style.

The aim of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels' music ministry, under Music Director Frank Brownstead, is to develop a sacred music program that encompasses the beautiful traditions of the Church and the multiple cultural traditions of the Archdiocese. In the Catholic context music is sung prayer, and music and liturgy are handmaidens.

Music Director : Frank Brownstead

Frank Brownstead

Frank Brownstead is the Director of Music at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. He holds the Master of Sacred Music Degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York. He has served as Music Coordinator in the Office for Worship, parish musician (most recently at St. Paul the Apostle Church in Westwood) and educator. He has been on the faculty of Mount St. Mary’s College since 1979. He coordinated and conducted the music for the visit of Pope John Paul II to Los Angeles in 1987.

Brownstead is the recipient of the Laudatus Award from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the Saint Andrew’s Abbey Sacred Arts Award, and the National Pastoral Musicians “Musician of the Year” Award (2001). He is also on the Board of Directors of the Shakespeare Festival Los Angeles. Mr. Brownstead has also worked extensively in the recording of liturgical music.



Cathedral Organist : Samuel Salvador Soria

Samuel Soria

Samuel Salvador Soria has been the organist of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles since its dedication in 2002. Prior to his appointment here in Los Angeles he was organist for nine years at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago. Mr. Soria is a graduate of Valpariso and Northwestern Universities. In addition to study with Philip Gehring and Wolfgang Rübsam, he has been coached privately by Jean Guillou, Naji Hakim and Paul Manz; concentrating on the art of organ improvisation.

Mr. Soria is a 2nd prizewinner in the J. S. Bach International Competition at the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., and was also a prizewinner in the American Guild of Organists Improvisation Competition at Trinity Church, New York. The Premiere Organ Recording CD (Delos Label released in February 2004) on the Cathedral’s pipe organ has received critical acclaim from across the country.



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