Catholic musicians gathered to blog about liturgy and life
Deacon Christopher Gray – Class of ’97 – sang the Gospel and other Diaconal elements. He was in the first graduation class of the Madeleine Choir School in Salt Lake City, and is now a student at the North American, scheduled to be ordained a Priest in the Cathedral on June 29th. Deacon Gray will also be singing the Noveritis for the Mass on Epiphany with Pope Benedict.
Day of Recollection on the Subject of St. Hildegaard and Sacred Music
Join Fr. Scott A. Haynes, SJC, and the Patrons of Sacred Music of St. John Cantius Church on Saturday, January 5 for a Day of Recollection on the subject of Sacred Music and St. Hildegaard, a new Doctor of the Church.
Location: St. John Cantius, 825 N. Carpenter, Chicago, IL 60642
Schedule – Saturday – January 5, 2013:
Read more and register online at: http://www.cantius.org/go/
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For composers attending the Sacred Music Colloquium in Salt Lake City, June 17-23, 2013:
You should plan on attending the Composer’s forum sessions during the week, where your new compositions will be critiqued and workshopped. Plan on bringing along enough copies for everyone in the seminar (about 20 copies). A winning composition from among those presented during the week will be announced on Saturday, June 22. The winning composition will be sung by the entire Colloquium at the closing Mass at the Cathedral of the Madeleine on Sunday, June 23. This year’s text is Psalm 116: Laudate Dominum omnes gentes, laudate eum omnes populi. Quoniam confirmata est super nos misericordia ejus, et veritas Domini manet in aeternum. [Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto: sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.] . Compositions should be SATB and no longer than three minutes in length. For more information, contact David Hughes, forum leader, at davidjhughes@gmail.com
I just watched this video again…it holds up! Send the link to someone this Christmas:
I just discovered this video/news story when I was browsing around online after I got acall from Dr. Alise Brown yesterday. Dr. Brown and I studied the Ward method together a number of years ago at CUA. She has taken the method outside of its Catholic context and is teaching it at the University of Northern Colorado. Her success speaks for itself.
Every Sunday, the front cover of our Mass program features the Introit for the day. If we are doing a choral version we just print the words. If we are doing the Gregorian Introit, we print the whole thing. On the first Sunday of Advent, of course, it featured the Ad te levavi:
One of our schola members has a seven-year-old who sits in the second pew, not far from where the schola stands. After Mass a couple of weeks ago, I took a look at what she had busied herself with the whole time. Now children do sometimes need some help in keeping themselves contained and focused during the Mass. Some children bring little Mass booklets. Others are urged repeatedly not to fidget. I have even been to a parish where I saw the mom feeding the kids slices of American cheese to keep them quiet! Apparently this little girl keeps herself busy with the program and a pencil. After Mass she showed me what had taken her a good bit of time to do. Notice she has written across the top her own spelling of “church music.” This is what she hears every week, and this is what she is learning is proper to the Roman Rite. I was stunned. Such beauty and focus. Let’s never short-change our children.
The headline says it all. Men can still register on or before Friday, December 14. Women’s names will be placed on a waiting list at this point. Seminarian scholarships are available. More information and registration form here.
