Pablo Sosa

Liturgy as a Performing Art

Sunday, November 7, 2004
2:30 – 5:00 pm

Is the essential really invisible to our eyes? (Saint-Exupery) If not, what should then Liturgy “show”? What does it mean to perform a Liturgy? When and how does Liturgy become alive? How do you become a liturgical enlivener? What is the role of the community in “acting” a liturgy? Is there a “social performance” of Liturgy? All these questions stem out of our local liturgical practice here in this part of Latin America as well as of my own personal experience at international- ecumenical liturgical gatherings. Emphasis will be placed on music as a performing tool. 

Pablo Sosa is an Argentine church musician and a local minister of the Methodist Church in Argentina. He holds degrees from the Westminster Choir College at Princeton, the School of Sacred Music at Union Theological Seminary, (New York), and the Hochschule für Musik, in Berlin, Germany. He teaches Liturgy and Hymnology at his alma mater, the InstitutoUniversitario ISEDET, in Buenos Aires, the main Protestant theological seminary in Latin America and Choir Conducting at the National State Conservatory in Buenos Aires. He is a composer of many religious songs and hymns. Several of them have been translated into various languages: English, German, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese. He recently produced a new recording of 19 of his songs which the Instituto Universitario ISEDET has just released. For the last 25 years he has acted as a Liturgical and Musical Animateur at various ecumenical gatherings around the world.

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