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the pope said he would prefer to hear Gregorian chant and other traditional types of music play more of a role during Mass. That's good news for the cloistered nuns at the Bethlehem abbey ...
One can, it seems to me, both affirm Gregorian chant’s “pride of place” and make liturgical space for other styles. Here I think not so much of the folk Mass music of my youth, but rather of ...
Members of The Catholic University of America Chamber Choir sing during an Oct. 10, 2017, rehearsal at the Washington campus’ St. Vincent Chapel, a session that included Gregorian chant.
"Contemporary music will remain within the church ... are now required to include official English-language chant settings of the Mass that were created along with the new missal.
The Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music said this week it is launching its “Let’s Sing with the Pope” initiative.
"Most Catholics have either forgotten or never knew traditional music," Day says ... on their Gregorian chants, or to learn the lost seminary art of singing the entire Mass in Latin, English ...
McDonnell, director of the Institute of Sacred Music at The Catholic University of America in Washington. Gregorian chant was standard in the Mass in the 1950s, but fell out of favor after the ...
sacred chant at Mass and vespers. “The marriage of music and the word is incredibly powerful and transforms people’s lives,” Richard Clark, director of music for the Archdiocese of Boston ...
Joe Morse, a Covington father of four, said going to church on Sundays felt like an obligation until he started going to Latin Mass. “It was so beautiful and reverent, the music and everything ...
The most distinctive aspect of the “Western Wind” Mass of the 16th century ... In between the movements are an array of chant melodies, instrumental music and popular songs from the court ...
WILBRAHAM — Wilbraham native Carla Patullo was one of 23 Berklee College of Music alumni and faculty who took home a gold-plated gramophone from the 66th annual Grammy Awards. Patullo won a ...