Catholic liturgical music is serious, solemn, transcendent, but Catholic musicians are never more fun and inspiring than when they are talking about what they love most. This is what happens at sacred music events around the world: the social and intellectual are critically important elements. The musicians (and music enthusiasts) at the Chant Café, a project of the
Church Music Association of America, bring that sense of life and love to the digital world. As St. Augustine said, "Cantare amantis est."
Among the contributors:
Also past contributors:
Jeffrey Tucker, writer, editor, entrepreneur, musician |
archiveNick Gale (1975-2015), organist, choral director, for 13 years Master of the Music at the Cathedral of St. George in Southwark |
archiveBen, schola director and organ student |
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Thank you for posting this video. This is the very first place I heard chant: we spent all our summers nearby and my mother would insist on attending Mass there once awhile…..it was sooooo boooooring (especially the "music"!)…..a couple of decades later and on the other side of the ocean…I really wish we would have more of that music!
FP
a wonderfully prayerful rendering of the Office. The world needs chant more than ever. Thank you. SB.
i notice the gloria.tv does not work sometimes, it is also here though http://youtu.be/CwkGC0-PlsQ
PAX
There are multiple examples on Gloria.tv to augment this wonderful video. Write "gregorian chant" in the search window and a wide array of examples of sung chant appear. A particularly good history of sacred music produced in four parts by the BBC can be found at this link:
http://gloria.tv/?media=153479
Jeffrey, thank you for posting the video!