The St. Louis Jesuits Are 'Coming Home' For Final Live Concert
07/11/2019
The St. Louis Jesuits, the influential group of composer-performers who inspired a generation of Catholic liturgical music, will return to ‘where it all started’ for their The St. Louis Jesuits – Coming Home concert on Sunday, Sept. 29, at Powell Hall. The concert will be a final chance to see the group perform live, on-stage.
The group, including composer-performers Dan Schutte, Tim Manion, Bob Dufford S.J., John Foley S.J., and Roc O'Connor S.J., together with the late John Kavanaugh, S.J., met and began composing music together as young Jesuit scholastics in the early 1970s while at Saint Louis University.
The group’s songs, including “One Bread, One Body” and “Earthen Vessels,” have become staples of Catholic liturgies, and the St. Louis Jesuits, as a group, have recorded 35 albums and several anthology collections.
The group reunited to lead SLU alumni, current students, faculty, staff members and Billiken families in song at the University’s bicentennial finale celebration at Chaifetz Arena in November 2018.
About the Concert
The Sept. 29 concert at Powell Hall is expected to be a nostalgic celebration of the five’s most beloved hymns and songs for worship and personal prayer, both as St. Louis Jesuits and as solo artists.
The concert is the group’s opportunity to “get back together with old friends who helped us in our early days and all along the way,” O’Connor said, “and is a way to thank them for all that love and support.”
The concert will feature a number of the group’s “old friends,” including the singers and musicians of the St. Francis Xavier College Church Choir, a group featured on several of the St. Louis Jesuits’ albums.
The concert is presented by The Ignatian Spirituality Project (ISP) and all proceeds past expenses will benefit the project. Named after St. Ignatius of Loyola, who co-founded the religious order of priests called the Society of Jesus, the ISP offers men and women who are homeless and in recovery from addiction the opportunity to change their lives through Ignatian spirituality and retreats.
Want to Go?
- Tickets are on sale now. Of the 2,422 seats in the auditorium, about 1,000 have been made available for a ticket price of $30 or less, including many seats for $15.
- The concert will begin at 3 p.m.
- A reception with the St. Louis Jesuits will start at 1 p.m., prior to the concert, in the Powell Hall Wightman Grand Foyer. Any concert ticket holder, up to the reception limit, may attend the reception for an additional $50, which is available as an added cost when purchasing VIP ticket packages. The reception fee also benefits the Ignatian Spirituality Project.
- Saint Louis University staff, faculty members and students can receive a discount on the price of concert tickets.
Use Your SLU Discount
Online
- Go to www.powellhall.com to find the concert listing in the "Additional Concerts at Powell Hall" section.
- Click "Learn More or Buy Now." In the top-right-hand corner is a place to type in the SLU promo code.
- Enter HCFW19 and click the Submit button.
- Seats in the various sections should reflect the discounted ticket prices. To use the online chart, roll your curser over the section you are interested in and click on that section; it will show all of the available seats left in that section (the ones in gray are gone); then rollover the seats you are interested in and it will show the prices—for the seat alone and with the VIP add-on (see below).
By Phone
- Call Powell Hall Ticket Office at 314-534-1700. Ask about tickets for the St. Louis Jesuits Coming Home concert on Sept. 29.
- Ask to use the SLU PROMO and give Promo Code, HCFW19.
- The ticket office will direct you to purchase the best remaining tickets in the section you prefer.
- With every seat you have the option of buying a regular seat or a VIP seat to the pre-concert reception for an additional price. Handicap accessible and wheelchair accessible seating is also available.
Experience the St. Louis Jesuits' Coming Home as a VIP
- Any seat can be upgraded to a VIP seat with a $47.50 additional charge for SLU alumni, faculty, staff members, donors, parents and other SLU community members.
- A VIP ticket will give the bearer access to a VIP pre-concert reception with the St. Louis Jesuits which includes light refreshments, tea, coffee and cold drinks, plus a special memento of the occasion—an autographed commemorative poster. The reception will be held from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Wightman Grand Foyer of Powell Hall. Limited tickets available.
- The Powell Hall Ticket Office has a “no refunds or exchanges” policy, meaning the VIP add-ons must be made at the time of ticket purchase. There are a limited number of VIP spaces available.
Upgrade to VIP Access
Online
- Go to www.powellhall.com to find the concert listing in the "Additional Concerts at Powell Hall" section.
- Click "Learn More or Buy Now." In the top-right-hand corner is a place to type in the SLU promo code.
- The seats in the various sections show ticket prices. To use the online chart, roll your curser over the section you are interested in and click on that section; it will show all of the available seats left in that section (the ones in gray are gone); then rollover the seats you are interested in and it will show the prices—for the seat alone and with the VIP add-on (see below).
By Phone
- Call Powell Hall Ticket Office at 314-534-1700. Ask about tickets for the St. Louis Jesuits Coming Home concert on Sept. 29. The ticket office will direct you to purchase the best remaining tickets in the section you prefer.
Learn More About the St. Louis Jesuits
Founded in 1818, Saint Louis University is one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious Catholic institutions. Rooted in Jesuit values and its pioneering history as the first university west of the Mississippi River, SLU offers nearly 13,000 students a rigorous, transformative education of the whole person. At the core of the University’s diverse community of scholars is SLU’s service-focused mission, which challenges and prepares students to make the world a better, more just place.