Sacred Music Colloquium: Now Is the Time!

For anyone with the slightest interest in Gregorian chant, here is your chance to learn more and become inspired by the beauty of our Catholic music heritage.

Here’s some of the information. Find the full details at The Chant Café:

Sacred Music Colloquium XXII will be the most exciting and largest in history. It will be held at the remarkable Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City, Utah

Dates: June 25-July 1, 2012.

This year we are expanding in new directions. You do not need to regard yourself as a singer or even a musician to attend. There are plenty of Gregorian choirs for first-time singers, and sessions are available for those who opt not to sing in a polyphonic choirs. There will be opportunities for both professional musicians and non-musicians who are just interested in the well-being of music at liturgy.

The venue of the Cathedral in Salt Lake is beautiful beyond description. Historically significant as well as aesthetically magnificent, the Cathedral of the Madeleine ranks among the finest locations ever made available for the Sacred Music Colloquium, which has grown in size in scope every year for six years.

• Register now
• The Schedule for Colloquium XXII
• Register for the Little America Hotel
• Colloquium XXII Chant Course Descriptions
• Individuals and organizations interested in sponsoring the Colloquium with full page ad in the Colloquium packet, write programs@musicasacra.com.

The year 2012 promises to be the grandest ever with new opportunities for learning, singing, listening, and interacting with the best minds and musicians in the Catholic world today. The Cathedral Choir School has been wonderfully accommodating and opened up the full use of its facilities for the Colloquium.

SOME COLLOQUIUM HIGHLIGHTS:

• Extensive training in Gregorian chant under a diverse and world-class faculty, with choices of a chant class for beginners, and intermediate and and advanced chant classes;
• Morning and afternoon sessions all week with lectures and workshops with the best of the best thinkers and doers in the world of Catholic music;
• Optional choral experience with one of four large choirs singing sacred music of the masters such as Palestrina, Vierne, Bruckner, Victoria, Byrd, Tallis, Josquin, and many others;
• Daily liturgies with careful attention to officially prescribed musical settings;
• Experience in singing or just listening to Mass settings, motets, chants, and responses;
• Residency in a full service hotel;
• Two gala dinners with top lecturers and events;
• Training in English chant from newly published works;
• Training in vocal production and technique;
• Conducting practicum;
• Training for Priests in the sung Mass;
• Pedagogy demonstrations;
• Composers’ Forum;
• Seminars on parish music management, integrating sung parts of the liturgy, polyphonic repertoire for beginning and more established choirs;
• All music, including prepared packets of chant and polyphony, as part of registration.

 Go to  The Chant Café  for all the details.