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Episode Topic: The Making of The Passion

Listen to the discussion recorded on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, with J.J. Wright and special guests Kim Belcher, Anna Staud, and Noelle Dorvault.

Led by Grammy® Award winner and Director of the Notre Dame Folk Choir Dr. J.J. Wright, this series will introduce The Passion, a new artistic production combining Scripture with original poetry and set to original music. Through Christ’s Passion, we learn to encounter suffering and incarnate love, to behold one another in our “not-enoughness.” As we enter the Lenten and Easter seasons, we invite you to journey with the Folk Choir and some of its closest collaborators through the development, rehearsal, and performance process of The Passion. Along the way, we will explore the Passion and Resurrection in light of the most pressing issues on the minds of our students, including the clergy sexual abuse crisis, the role of women in the Church, and climate change. In May, the choir will make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, where they’ll walk in Jesus’s steps through the Passion and record this new work at the Jerusalem Music Center.

Featured Speakers: 

• J.J. Wright, Director, Notre Dame Folk Choir
• Kim Belcher, Professor in the Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame 
• Anna Staud, Senior, Co-President of the Notre Dame Folk Choir, and Assistant Stage Director of The Passion
• Noelle Dorvault, First-year member of the Notre Dame Folk Choir

Read this episode's recap over on the University of Notre Dame's open online learning community platform, ThinkND: go.nd.edu/3c2443.

This podcast is a part of the Choirs of Notre Dame ThinkND Series titled “The Way of the Cross: A Passion Pilgrimage Through Song”.

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