Robert Hutmacher
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For eight hundred years now the "Canticle of the Sun" of St. Francis has been servicing the Church in some form or another, such as "All Creatures of Our God and King" with the tune LASST UNS ERFREUEN. Lying square in this tradition of music making is another Franciscan friar: Robert Hutmacher, composer, performer, preacher, minister of music. His music has been published by GIA since 1978, including four recordings of Franciscan choral and instrumental music, the newest being a recording for harp and flute entitled Mystic Vista. Whether in spite of, or because of, his residences at various times in suburb, in inner city, or during travels abroad, his music reflects the mysticism of distant Assisi and Umbria with an eye turned to the needs of today's Church. Fr. Hutmacher is also the founder-director of Chiesa Nuova, a Franciscan place for the performing arts.
His compositions boast high craft and skill, two traits that were no doubt instilled in him by his studies with David Clark Isele at Notre Dame and Daniel Truman Fletcher at Memphis State University. Always appropriate to the liturgy and its demands, his approach to liturgical music composition reflects the principles he learned in his graduate studies at Notre Dame, where he was awarded a master's degree in liturgy in 1981. In the early nineties he spent time translating and setting the oldest hymns and offices of Clare and Francis, a labor that entailed three months of research in the libraries of Assisi. He also composed the score for a play about Clare of Assisi, which was filmed and distributed by Oblate Media for the 800th anniversary of Clare in 1993.
Fr. Hutmacher amplifies another prayer of St. Francis, "Make me an instrument of your peace." His musical output and his scholarly endeavors have made him a cheerful and effective instrument of God's song-not only in Umbria, but in the American church as well.
Workshops
Ministry and the Mystery of God
A theological talk on the mystery of God and how we, as ministers, experience this great mystery, in liturgy and in the ordinary moments of daily life. Through the use of prayer, silence, and song, participants are led to a deeper understanding of the presence of God in their ministerial lives. The harp is used as a reflective tool, calling participants to a deeper awareness of God's call.
Presiding at Eucharist
A reflective workshop calling presiders to a deeper understanding of their role as presiders of the Christian assembly.
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