Ed Murray
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Excerpt from John F. Fink, "A Remembrance of Jazz Great Dave Brubeck", The Criterion Online Edition, December 14, 2012:
"Sometime late in the 1970s, while I was president of Our Sunday Visitor (OSV) in Huntington, Ind., Ed Murray came to me with an interesting proposal. Ed was assistant director of OSV’s Religious Education Department. His proposal was that OSV publish the music for a Mass, and that we try to get the great jazz pianist Dave Brubeck to write the music. . . . I thought about it for a while, but I finally gave Ed the go ahead to contact Brubeck. He did and succeeded in convincing Brubeck, who was not Catholic, to compose a Mass.
Brubeck’s Mass was called 'To Hope: A Mass for a New Decade,' and OSV published the music in September 1980."
Notes: Year(s) found in correspondence files: 1986; 1989; 1992; 1998; 1999; 2000
"Sometime late in the 1970s, while I was president of Our Sunday Visitor (OSV) in Huntington, Ind., Ed Murray came to me with an interesting proposal. Ed was assistant director of OSV’s Religious Education Department. His proposal was that OSV publish the music for a Mass, and that we try to get the great jazz pianist Dave Brubeck to write the music. . . . I thought about it for a while, but I finally gave Ed the go ahead to contact Brubeck. He did and succeeded in convincing Brubeck, who was not Catholic, to compose a Mass.
Brubeck’s Mass was called 'To Hope: A Mass for a New Decade,' and OSV published the music in September 1980."
Notes: Year(s) found in correspondence files: 1986; 1989; 1992; 1998; 1999; 2000