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JesuitUSA News, November 15, 2008

Twelve years ago, Spanish musicologist Fr. Félix Zabala, SJ was challenged by someone who asserted that there was a "musical desert in the Society of Jesus." After more than a decade of research, Zabala has responded with Músicos jesuitas a lo largo de la historia, a 605-page book chronicling the place of music in the Society of Jesus. The work presents names, countries of origin, and brief biographies of 630 Jesuits from 48 countries who were musicologists, choir directors, composers, and music critics, and refutes the stereotype "Gesuita non cantat." [Press and Information Office, Rome]