BY Martin Dunlop | May 5 | 
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Double honour for Scottish composer
James MacMillan asked to contribute to 60th anniversary celebration for Pope Benedict XVI and to new school on liturgical music
Renowned Scottish Catholic composer James MacMillan has been invited to participate in a project celebrating Pope Benedict XVI’s 60th anniversary of ordination to the priesthood.
On June 29, Pope Benedict will celebrate 60 years as a priest and Mr MacMillan has been invited to submit pages from his Tu Es Petrus, which was performed at the Pontifical Mass at Westminster Cathedral in September last year, during the visit of the Holy Father to the UK, to an exhibition in Rome by leading artists, organised by the Pontifical Council for Culture at the Vatican.
Mr MacMillan was also involved in preparing the musical Liturgy for the Papal Mass at Glasgow’s Bellahouston Park last year. His Tu Es Petrus, dedicated to Pope Benedict, is scored for choir, brass, percussion and organ.
The composer is central to a new national initiative on liturgical music organised by the Birmingham Oratory. A new ‘school’ providing general formation in liturgical music has invited him to be patron along with the archbishop of Birmingham.
Mr MacMillan’s new chamber opera, Clemency, a story lifted from the Old Testament, will premiere in London tomorrow.
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