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
Home-schooled Samatha, left, taught herself to read Gregorian chant from the Kyriale at the age of 7. Now 17, she was able to raise her hand in the women's chant workshop when Prof. Mahrt asked for volunteer cantors who had been singing chant for 10 years or more. She starts college next fall, majoring in organ performance. Young people like her who love the traditional sacred music of the Church are encouraging signs that the seeds planted and cultivated by CMAA members over the last 40 years of drought are sprouting in the springtime of Benedict XVI's papacy.
Home-schooled Samatha, left, taught herself to read Gregorian chant from the Kyriale at the age of 7. Now 17, she was able to raise her hand in the women's chant workshop when Prof. Mahrt asked for volunteer cantors who had been singing chant for 10 years or more. She starts college next fall, majoring in organ performance. Young people like her who love the traditional sacred music of the Church are encouraging signs that the seeds planted and cultivated by CMAA members over the last 40 years of drought are sprouting in the springtime of Benedict XVI's papacy.
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