Composer and Milton faculty member Louise Mundinger has been selected for the American Composers Forum New England’s 2004-2005 Faith Partners Program. Selected from among 23 composers, she will serve as the composer in residence at the New Covenant Christian Church in Mattapan, Massachusetts, and Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Louise will work with both communities throughout the year and write three new anthems to be performed by the choirs of both congregations in March 2005.

This community outreach project aims to reinvigorate sacred music and reintroduce composers into religious settings where they have historically flourished. In this collaboration between one Jewish congregation and one predominantly African-American Christian congregation, the two music directors jointly chose Louise as this year’s resident composer to collaborate with the music directors and choirs to select appropriate text and musical settings for the ensembles’ strengths.

Louise will also participate in congregational activities such as study groups, social and religious activities, and will deliver talks about the creative process and what it means to be a composer.