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Introducing the Wethersfield Institute Chant Workshop

Fr. David Friel · April 16, 2017

UMMER 2017 has several excellent sacred music programs on offer. Within a span of just two weeks in late June, there will be three outstanding programs offered on the East Coast, on the West Coast, and in the Midwest.

First up is the 27th annual CMAA Sacred Music Colloquium, to be held in St. Paul, MN from June 19-24, 2017. More details available here.

Second is the second annual Sacred Music Symposium hosted by the FSSP parish in Los Angeles, CA. Dates for the symposium are June 26-30, 2017, and information can be found here.

Third is the inaugural Wethersfield Institute Chant Workshop, which runs from June 27-30, 2017. This event, to be held at Wethersfield house, Amenia, NY, will be led by two Dominicans: Fr. Vincent Ferrer Bagan, O.P. and Fr. Innocent Smith, O.P. This event is billed as an intensive course on Gregorian chant that will feature instruction in singing, teaching, and directing Gregorian chant. Both Mass and the Divine Office will be sung daily. Further details are available from the workshop website here.

June promises to be a wonderful month for the advancement of sacred music. These three conferences, together with Sacra Liturgia Milano earlier in the month (June 6-9, 2017), will introduce the treasury of the Church’s music to many new people. These workshops will also deepen the knowledge and experience of many folks already working with chant in their parishes and institutions.

The placement of these opportunities across the country is very good news for the renewal of sacred music. It is simple evidence that there is a widespread need being met. May the Lord bring forth much fruit from each of these events!

Opinions by blog authors do not necessarily represent the views of Corpus Christi Watershed.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Gregorian Chant, Sacred Music Colloquium, Sacred Music Symposium Last Updated: January 1, 2020

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About Fr. David Friel

Ordained in 2011, Father Friel served as Parochial Vicar at Saint Anselm Church in Northeast Philly before earning a doctorate in liturgical theology at The Catholic University of America. He presently serves as Vocation Director for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.—(Read full biography).

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“The Church has always kept, and wishes still to maintain everywhere, the language of her Liturgy; and, before the sad and violent changes of the 16th century, this eloquent and effective symbol of unity of faith and communion of the faithful was, as you know, cherished in England not less than elsewhere. But this has never been regarded by the Holy See as incompatible with the use of popular hymns in the language of each country.”

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