Song of the Day: Der Overbacher Jugendchor – Schalom (Germany, 1973)
Just like today, and the decades that preceded where we are now, in the 1960s in Catholic Germany, there were reformers in the church who wanted to create sacred music that was updated to the times in which they lived. A priest named Manfred Karduck, who ministered at Haus Overbach Christian Center near Jülich (western Germany) founded the group Der Overbacher Jugendchor and an orchestra. Karduck was one of the first German music directors to bring (gasp!) drums into church services. He also founded a network of priests who were trying to reform traditional church music.… Continued →