Dad29We note in sadness:
Cistercian Father Ralph March, a founding member of the CMAA, died on February 6 at the age of 93
The obit is filled with landmarks, by the way.
...he was ordained a priest in the Abbey of Zirc by Jozsef Mindszenty,...He joined fellow Cistercians exiled from Hungary in the Cistercian monastery of Spring Bank in Wisconsin. He taught at Marquette University until the foundation of the University of Dallas, where he served on the first faculty in 1956...At the invitation of the cardinal-archbishop of Cologne, Fr. Ralph became the music director ("Domkapellmeister") of the city's monumental cathedral, a post he held for ten years...
We had the occasion to hear Fr. March's choirs twice; once at St Anthony's/Milwaukee, and once at the U of Dallas. His rendition of Chant is definitive.
.... remember when we had Cistercians in Wisconsin?
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