2010 ColloquiumIt’s exciting, we’re starting up our new year of chant for the parish.
First, our practice is on Sunday morning. I’m following much the same pattern that we did last year: Ordinaries out of Breaking Bread, a couple of English hymns, a couple of Latin hymns, and the schola doing a piece before Mass. I created the Alleluia based on the words out of the Gregorian Missal, and I took the Responsorial Psalm from Chabanel (it didn’t mention who composed the piece). This is for the Mass we’re doing on September 20th.
Second, I have the parish-wide Introduction to Gregorian Chant workshop set up for next Thursday, and started to think through how to organize the 2 hours. I want to keep it light and fun, so I’m not going to delve too much into fine points and theory. Who knows – maybe we’ll get some additional schola members out of this – maybe even some women! That would be fantastic.
I have no clue how many people might show up for this. Could be 5, could be 50. Yikes!
Third, we’re still progressing on the discussions around the 3-parish combination of choirs. I have another meeting about that next Wednesday. It looks like we might be doing a Mass in November, and Immaculate Conception on December 8th. More news to come!
Oh, and it was wonderful to see the CMAA Forum discussion around next year’s Colloquium XX, also known as “Colloquium Dos Equis”. I’d better start saving my pennies, and hope I have a job to pay for this! (For more on the saga of my job situation)