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California Mission Mass Sung at Mission San Rafael : Mass at Mission San Rafael* on St. Raphael the Archangel's feast day on Sat. Oct. 24th. It was a Missa Cantata. Our schola and some students from St. Thomas More school sang the California Mission Mass setting for the ordinary, the propers from the feast of San Rafael, some motets and two hymns to the Angel Rafael. The California Mission Mass was written for the converted Indians to sing. This may have been the same Mass Robert Louis Stevenson heard when he witnessed a Mass at Mission San Carlos Borromeo (Carmel Mission). Stevenson wrote of the event in 1879: "...the padre drives over the hill from Monterey; the little sacristy, which is the only covered portion of the church, is filled with seats and decorated for the service; the Indians troop together, their bright dresses contrasting with their dark and melancholy faces; and there, among a crowd of somewhat unsympathetic holiday makers, you may hear God served with perhaps more touching circumstances than in any other temple under heaven. An Indian, stone blind and about eighty years of age, conducts the singing; other indians compose their choir; yet they have the Gregorian music at their finger ends and pronounce the Latin so correctly that I could follow the meaning as they sang....I have never seen faces more vividly lit up with joy than the faces of these Indian singers." * Its original name was La Mision de Gloriosisimo Principe San Rafael Archangel. The California Mission Mass was led by John Vogel, the choir director at St. Thomas More school, and a number of his students from the school sang with us. Michael Hey led the schola in singing the Propers, the motets, and the hymns. Note, many of the schola members who sing every week at Five Wounds in San Jose and at these special Masses are very young students who enjoy singing the Latin chant and polyphony.

California Mission Mass Sung at Mission San Rafael

Mass at Mission San Rafael* on St. Raphael the Archangel's feast day on Sat. Oct. 24th. It was a Missa Cantata. Our schola and some students from St. Thomas More school sang the California Mission Mass setting for the ordinary, the propers from the feast of San Rafael, some motets and two hymns to the Angel Rafael. The California Missi ...

Updated: Oct 28, 2009 9:07am PST

2008 Sacred Music Colloquium (CMAA) Loyola University, Chicago : From June 16 through June 22, 2008, 250 lovers of Gregorian chant and Sacred Polypohony met at the Church Music Association of America Colloquium at Loyola University's beautiful Lakeshore campus. Several levels of Gregorian chant scholas and four different polyphony groups met daily to prepare to sing at the liturgies. Besides Masses, we sang at Morning Prayer, Vespers, Compline and a Holy Hour. Sing, sing, sing to the Lord seven days in a row with hundreds of kindred souls. I tell you, that's my idea of a good time.

2008 Sacred Music Colloquium (CMAA) Loyola University, Chicago

From June 16 through June 22, 2008, 250 lovers of Gregorian chant and Sacred Polypohony met at the Church Music Association of America Colloquium at Loyola University's beautiful Lakeshore campus. Several levels of Gregorian chant scholas and four different polyphony groups met daily to prepare to sing at the liturgies. Besides Masses, ...

Updated: Jun 26, 2008 5:13pm PST

CMAA Colloquium 2007 : Over 140 musicians came together at Catholic University of America from June 19 to 24 to learn from and to perform with experts and be immersed in the Catholic Church's Gregorian chant and polyphony. The 2007 Colloquium of the Church Music Association of America doubled in size from 2006. Due to lack of space, organizers had to reluntantly turn away potential attendees for months. Advertised as Six Days of Musical Heaven, the event lived up to its billing. A heavenly time was had by just about everyone. For how to attend the 2008 colloquium in Chicagp: http://www.musicasacra.com/colloquium

CMAA Colloquium 2007

Over 140 musicians came together at Catholic University of America from June 19 to 24 to learn from and to perform with experts and be immersed in the Catholic Church's Gregorian chant and polyphony. The 2007 Colloquium of the Church Music Association of America doubled in size from 2006. Due to lack of space, organizers had to reluntan ...

Updated: Jul 19, 2007 12:43pm PST

Sacred Music Workshop Auburn AL 2/2007 : Sacred Music Workshop sponsored by St. Cecilia Schola Cantorum in Auburn Alabama 2/2007. Directed by Scott Turkington.

Sacred Music Workshop Auburn AL 2/2007

Sacred Music Workshop sponsored by St. Cecilia Schola Cantorum in Auburn Alabama 2/2007. Directed by Scott Turkington.

Updated: Mar 01, 2007 12:23am PST