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My wife and I had a chance to go to a local Amy Grant concert Friday night. This was a benefit for Lutheran Family Services, and included a limo ride down to Denver, and a meet-and-greet with Amy after the show. It was a truly fantastic evening, in so many ways. Back in November we got people from all the parishes in Fort Collins together to sing sacred music for Mass. That was so wonderful, we’re going to do it again! We’re looking at the end of February, at my home parish. After a busy week of training, I had the opportunity to attend another wonderful Mass on a soggy London Sunday. This was at the highly-recommended Brompton Oratory. Full Novus Ordo, Latin, ad orientem. Going on the advice from some friends over at the CMAA forum, I had the opportunity to attend Mass at St Etheldreda’s Church in Ely, London. This was a Latin Mass, complete with chant, polyphony, accompanied by a small chamber orchestra. When I get a chance, I’ll try to upload all the photos. In my last post, I talked about the first city-wide chant scholae Mass that we put together. Well, the Mass was last night, and… A compatriot here in town, who happens to be both a chant schola director and a professor of Organ Studies at the local university, put together an organ recital for tomorrow night. Not your ordinary organ concert, though! It’s a mixture of Compline in Gregorian Chant, and … organ pieces by Phillip Glass, Arvo Pärt, and Olivier [...] Last week I talked about the chant workshop I put on in our parish. The primary point of that workshop was just to grow familiarity with chant. But then… I’ve been stressing over the chant workshop that I put together for our parish, and unfortunately it also fell on a day when I had two job interviews. Let’s just say that there was no shortage of adrenaline coursing through my veins yesterday. It’s exciting, we’re starting up our new year of chant for the parish. I made some good progress this week on setting up an Introduction to Chant workshop for our parish. It’s now scheduled for the evening of August 20th, and I’ve made sure people know that it’s open to anyone and everyone in the parish. Specifically: kids and women, as there seems to be the misconception that [...] |
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