Schola Gregoriana
The Association for Gregorian Chant
Directed by John Rowlands-Pritchard John Rowlands-Pritchard will be teaching several chant workshops in a variety of places over the next few months, and also one residential course in April. Here is a summary; for details and updates, please see the Opus Anglicanum web site. 24th – 27th April, Benslow Music, Hitchin, Herts. Residential Gregorian Chant Course 01462 459446 […]
Directed by Dr. Peter Wilton, B.Ed (Hons.) M.Mus (Editor of chant for the Office of Vespers for Westminster Cathedral Choir) Discover the profound beauty and infinite variety of this timeless music by learning to sing it. From 6.30 (after end of Mass) to 8 pm. Alternate Mondays January 23, February 6 and 20, March 6 […]
Julia Jones has recently become a trustee of the Schola, and suggested we should reproduce this article which she wrote a little while ago about the Gregorian Chant Hymns web site. Gregorian Chant Hymns, (gregorian-chant-hymns.com) our website, grew out of a very practical need. Frequently, people decry the music that they hear week by week […]
Study retreat at the Abbeys of Quarr and St. Cecilia, Isle of Wight. Singers living within reach of Ealing Abbey are fortunate in having as their choir director the Reverend Dom Peter Burns, OSB. The choir meets for rehearsals on Wednesday evenings and sings the Mass from the Gregorian Sunday Missal one Sunday every month […]
Directed by Dr. Peter Wilton, B.Ed (Hons.) M.Mus (Editor of chant for the Office of Vespers for Westminster Cathedral Choir) Discover the profound beauty and infinite variety of this timeless music by learning to sing it. From 6.30 to 8 pm on Tuesdays: October 25th, November 8th, 22nd, 29th December 13th ( at 26 The Grove, […]
Douai Abbey 28th to 30th October For some years Associates of the Schola have been joining with the YCA on a weekend retreat, usually in the autumn at Douai Abbey. The YCA is a group which promotes the spirit of orthodoxy with charity; it has a deliberately non-divisive outlook, and uses the Church’s devotional heritage in order […]
The Schola will as in previous years provide support (chant) to the Young Catholics Association from the afternoon of 28th October until Sunday 30th October at Douai Abbey (near Reading). The programme will be set once we have an idea of numbers. At this stage I need either firm intentions or expressions of interest. Please contact me […]
Come along and experience the beauty of Gregorian Chant, and how this treasure of our musical heritage can be incorporated into our modern liturgy. Working with the Association for Latin Liturgy and the Diocese of East Anglia Office for Sacred Music, the day is open to choir members, organists, music leaders and clergy; anyone who […]
Participants gathered at the magnificent Wren Library, designed by Sir Christopher Wren to give as much light as possible to readers via the great windows overlooking The Backs. We were greeted by the Librarian, Dr. Nicolas Bell, whom many of us remember talking on Cluniac monasticism at the Lewes weekend. Nicolas’s profound knowledge of mediaeval […]
11 – 5.30 (to be confirmed) Nicolas Bell, whom many of you will remember giving us a talk on Cluniac monasticism at Lewes Priory, has kindly offered to show Associates original mediaeval music manuscripts including an Office for St. Edmund of Canterbury. He will be demonstrating these manuscripts in the magnificent surroundings of the Wren […]