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A choir member’s visit to find Dom Pothier in Normandy’s Abbaye Saint-Wandrille de Fontenelle. She finds beauty and peace.
“My desire, Leroy, is to answer your question in a rigorously straightforward way.” —Jeff Ostrowski
Dom John Stéphan was a Benedictine monk of Buckfast Abbey in South Devon, England.
Earlier this year, my mother found out we desperately needed funds and were planning to run a fundraiser…
I would argue we must renew our good resolution and stand firm.
With a brief digression on “feelings of inadequacy.”
Dom Lucien David gives a practical lesson in applying the method of Dom Pothier to a chant from the Kyriale.
“There is, then, in the Church, in the Catholic liturgy, a music that, as we have just stated, is both a word and a song, a music rich and powerful, although simple and natural, a music that is not self-seeking, which does not attend to itself but comes forth as the spontaneous utterance of religious […]
The idea of the tonic accent in Gregorian melody runs through the entire Solesmes tradition from Gontier to Pothier to Mocquereau to the present.
This week I attended part of an excellent academic conference in honor of William Mahrt.
Two recordings of the same chant from the Sacred Music Symposium 2023.
