The Movement which comforts and calms down, the Music that speaks the unspeakable. (L. M. Vigne)
There is a great opportunity for young Singers (18 — 30) and musicians (18 — 28) to participate on international Project with the renowned conductor Helmuth Rilling. Travel, accommodation, meals and course fee costs will be paid
for by the organiser. Closing date for applications is March 5, 2007!
Info flyer (pdf):
This is first post from serie trough which we would like to inform you about current concerts of Chant Scholas and similar ensembles of the whole world. We would appreciate if you inform us about this kind of concerts using our Contact Form.
Frauenschola Exsulta Sion — Christoph Hönerlage — Source
Schola Freiburg — Anton Stingl Jun.
Schola Maastricht — Alexander M. Schweitzer; Marcel Verheggen — Organ — Source
Schola Gregoriana Tübingen — Wilfried Rombach; Frank Oidtmann — Organ — Source
UPDATED 2007-02-27
Internationally acknowledged Italian specialist on Gregorian chant Alberto Turco is going to visit Košice, Slovakia. He will lead here Workshop called
Workshop organizes Liturgical Institute of Ján Jalovecký (Theologic Faculty of Catholic University). It will be held from 17th — 19th march 2007 on Hlavná 89 Street in Košice.
The Goal of the Workshop is to illustrate Gregorian chant theoretically and practically. Participants would have the possibility to chant under the direction of Alberto Turco. There will be no participation fee.
Initiator and main Organizer of the Workshop is ThDr. Ján Veľbacký. We will bring more specific information about the Workshop soon.
Czech Sacred Music Society organizes already 4th year of International Summer School of Sacred Music — Convivium. It will be held from 18th to 26th august 2007 in Premonstratensian Abbey Želiv (Czech Republic).
I have visited Convivium in 2004 and 2005 — I do recomend it.
More info (in czech) on Convivium 2007.
Chant book which we mentioned in the last post, is already available online on the webpage of CMAA.
It contains chants for celebrations of Holy Week starting with Palm Sunday (including earlier supplied Passion Narratives)through Easter Triduum and Easter Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. From the whole interresting content we pick out:
In appendix there are chants for feasts of few saints, common tunes for psalmody, lectures, prayers and others. PDF file has 553 pages and it takes about 18.5 MB on your harddisk.
The whole name of the book:
OFFICIUM
MAJORIS HEBDOMADÆ
et Octavæ Paschæ
cum canto
juxta ordinem
Breviarii, Missalis et Pontificalis Romani
editio compendiosa i juxta typicam
RATISBONAE
sumptibus et typis Friderici Pustet
S. Sedis Apost. et S. Rituum Congregationis typographi
1923
There are great new chant resources on the web of church music association of america:
Passio Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum
Size of each PDF file is cca 1.8 MB. Chants are scanned from:
Officium Majoris Hebdomadae et Octavae Paschae cum canto
juxta ordinem Breviarii, Missalis et Pontificalis Romani
editio compendiosa i juxta typicam RATISBONAE
sumptibus et typis Friderici Pustet
S. Sedis Apost. et S. Rituum Congregationis typographi 1923
Updated 2007-02-10
