For those of you in the part of the country where Eastern Catholicism is mostly to be found (New Jersey and Maryland straight across to Michigan, for the most part), a concert series you will want to know about: The seminary choir from the Blessed Paul Gojdich Seminary in Presov, Slovakia, will be performing from September 24th to October 23rd. Here is their schedule and here is the program . The series is called, as you may have guessed already, “Let the Earth be Glad!”
I have not heard this choir, but last year went to a similar concert given by the choir from the Ukrainian Catholic seminary, and it was wonderful. Not to be missed, which is not something I say very often.
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