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The Sacred Music Society (SMS) is a world renowned performing arts and educational society, founded in 1996.
We offer choral instruction for children grades 1 - 8 called The Sparrows Choir School, adult choirs, and a training program to form future instructors for our programs. We offer a unique instructional method for instilling love of sacred and traditional music in our students. We work with churches, schools and offer after-school programs. We have worked with many school systems ranging from public, catholic, privet and homeschool organizations. We have been with many parishes and dioceses to provide music in the liturgy. We have given concerts with orchestras, symphonies and had the priviledge to sing for his Holiness John Paul II at World Youth Day 2002, Toronto with a 500 voice choir.
Our particular passion is the Sparrows childrens program. It is a unique program that we have developed and has set many children and schools alight with it's success. To quote one of our catholic school principles "Children sing with the voices of angels and God's work is manifest through them. This is sacred work." - Sheila O'Farrell
Our founder/music director who currently instructs, has taught 10,000 grade school students, over 25 years. He was the conductor for World Youth Day choir in 2002. He has met with the then Cardinal Ratzinger (current Pope Benidict XVI), in a privat audience to talk about music in the liturgy and the misson of our Sparrows program.
With the musical heritage of traditional Sacred Music, the Sacred Music Society has an artistic repertoire ranging from Gregorian Chant through classical music to contemporary compositions, and specially commissioned works by gifted composers. We seek to preserve and nurture classical sacred music by providing musical education programs for children, youth and adults and provide and restore the church's treasury of divine music in the liturgy.