London Gregorian Workshop in May (with Dom Yves-Marie Lelièvre)

This is May 5-8, 2011, at St. James’s Catholic Church, London

Gregorian Chant Workshop

Instructor: Dom Yves-Marie Lelièvre

Choirmaster, Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes, France

St. James’s Roman Catholic Church Spanish Place

22 George Street

London W1U 3QY

5-8 May 2011

There are separate sessions for advanced singers (e.g., Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge) and the volunteer schola members (e.g., St. James’s and St. Mary Magdalen).

Please review the schedule and contact Candy Bartoldus (cbartold@gmu.edu ; mobile 0754 010 8204) to register for all or part of the workshop.

Advanced singers are invited, especially to sing the daily scheduled Liturgy of Hours and the Propers at the 6 PM Mass on 7 May.

Voluntary donations to cover costs (5 Pounds) are welcome.

Thursday – 5 May

2-3.40 pm	Lower Sacristy	Advanced singers: Introduction to the Graduale Triplex (Part I). An introduction the fundamental principles of neumatic notation,. Suitable for singers with little knowledge of this book.
3.40-4 pm	Lower Sacristy	Tea
4-5 pm	Lower Sacristy	Advanced singers: Rehearsal of music for the 6 PM Mass on Saturday 7 May, e.g., study Propers.
5 – 6 pm	Church	Vespers – All welcome
6 pm	Church	Parish Mass – All welcome. Dom Yves Marie concelebrant – No music
6.30 pm		Free Time (e.g., Dinner available locally by your own arrangements)
8.00 pm	Lower Sacristy	Get organized – warm up before Compline
8.30 pm	Church	Compline (sung by attendees)– All welcome

Friday – 6 May

8.30 am	Church	Lauds
9 am	Church	Mass – Dom Yves Marie celebrates Mass. All welcome to participate and to sing ordinaries.
10 am to 12 pm	Lower Sacristy	Beginners – Singing the Liturgy of Hours – Stan Metheny will teach this session in preparation for Compline and Vespers.
Noon	Lower Sacristy	Sext
2-3.40 pm	Lower Sacristy	Advanced singers – Introduction to the Graduale Triplex (Part II – Dom Yves Marie – A more advanced session on Graduale Triplex, suitable for those with prior experience of its use. [Starting where Dom left off on Thursday, and including discussion of the quilisma, oriscus, etc.]
3.40-4 pm	Lower Sacristy	Tea
4-5 pm	Lower Sacristy	Advanced singers – The new Solesmes editions of the Antiphoner.. -. An introduction to recent editorial and performing practice at Solesmes.
5.15 pm	Church	Vespers (sung by attendees). All welcome
6 – 7.30 pm		Free time (e.g., 6 PM Parish Mass, Dinner)
7.30 to 8:00 pm	Lower Sacristy	Advanced singers – Questions and answers. Discussion. Sing more chants.
8.30 pm	Church	Compline – (sung by attendees). All welcome

Saturday – 7 May

8.00 am	Church	Lauds
8.30 am	Church	Mass – Father celebrates Mass. Anyone welcome to sing ordinaries.
9.15 am	Social Hall	Tea
10 am to 1 pm	Social Hall	Beginners Session I
1 – 1.15 pm	Church	Sext – All welcome. Advanced singers encouraged to lead
1.15– 2.30 pm		Lunch
2.30 – 4.30 pm	Social Hall	Beginners Session II – All welcome
4.30 pm	Social Hall	Vespers – All welcome. Advance singers encouraged to lead. (Note: Wedding in Church)
5 – 6 pm	Social Hall	Tea and preparation for Mass
6 pm	Church	Mass – All welcome. Advanced and Beginners participants sing under direction of Dom Yves Marie

Sunday – 8 May

10:30 Mass – Dom Yves Marie celebrate Mass – All are welcome!

St James’s website, including directions:

http://www.sjrcc.org.uk/

Lower Sacristy – Enter and walk to the front of the Church. Entrance door on left.

Social Hall – Pass through gate to the left of the main church entrance and walk through garden to the lower entrance.

One Reply to “London Gregorian Workshop in May (with Dom Yves-Marie Lelièvre)”

A followup of this Gregorian chant workshop:

Our teacher was of course Dom Yves-Marie Lelièvre from Solesmes Benedictine monastery. This monk-priest has got such a gentle way of teaching. We learned the propers of 3rd Easter Sunday; Father explained the old neumes in the Graduale Triplex.

http://www.gregorianchantnetwork.org/2011/05/report-on-spanish-place-workshop.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/sets/72157626540953873/

http://stmarymagdalenchoir.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/dom-ives-marie-the-chant-workshop/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25789986@N04/sets/72157626549140181/with/5699589602/

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We sang many hours of the divine office (Lauds/Sexte/Vespers/Complines) according to the Liturgy of the Hours, new breviary post Vatican II.
Stan Metheny was our teacher for the LOTH:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25789986@N04/5699016947/in/set-72157626549140181

And of course we ended up singing the mass on Saturday evening, 3rd Easter Sunday, with ALL the propers and the whole Kyriale I "Lux Origo" + Credo III! Dom Yves-Marie was conducting us. That was greaaat!

Finally the mass on 8th morning at 10:30 was celebrated by Dom Yves-Marie and this time the St James schola sang the propers and a polyphonic mass.

Unforgettable weekend. 🙂

Jacques PERRIERE

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