Toda la tierra espera al Salvador

Toda la tierra espera al Salvador. Alberto Taulé* (1932–2007). ‘Toda la tierra’ is Taulé’s most widely published hymn in the United States. He wrote the original four stanzas in his native Catalan language. Monsignor Taulé composed approximately 30 congregational songs in the style of the sardana, a Catalan folk music genre that accompanies a circle dance with intricate steps that change with the music. Catalonia is an autonomous region of Spain situated in the northeast corner of the Iberian Peninsula on the Mediterranean Sea. It includes Barcelona. Though granted self-governance by the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1939), the dictator Francisco Franco abolished self-rule after the Spanish...