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Lately, Glori\u00e6 Dei Cantores\u2019 chant recordings have received a lot of favorable attention.\u00a0We\u2019re thrilled, of course\u2014we view Gregorian chant as the beloved \u201cgrandfather\u201d of all western music, and it provides the heartbeat of our monastic vocation. \u201cSeven times a day will I praise thee,\u201d says the psalmist, and we endeavor to join him faithfully through the Liturgy of the Hours. The fruits of this\u00a0opus Dei<\/i>\u2014this work of God\u2014are sweet indeed.<\/p>\n
Now I know that not everyone views chant as the \u201cfull contact sport\u201d that we tend to engage in here in our monastery by the bay. The CDs most of our customers hear in the peaceful setting of home, car, or office, with those clean, smooth lines and (hopefully!) unified voices are generally only achieved after a\u00a0lot of mutual knocking off of corners and filing down of rough patches amongst the Schola members\u2014a challenging process, but in the end, always a cause for gratitude. As regular folks, we have experienced the innumerable benefits of worshiping daily through this vibrant form of sung prayer\u2014the experience of unity, the seeming secret language of prayer, the sparks of inspiration that occur when the critical mechanism of the mind takes a break and the heart opens.<\/p>\n
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We know we\u2019re not alone in finding these sparks, because Glori\u00e6\u00a0Dei Cantores sings a lot of other music<\/a>\u2014the early masters like Josquin and Palestrina, up through Bach, Mozart, Rheinberger, Brahms, Liszt, Faure, Vaughan Williams, and the list goes on\u2014and we\u2019re always excited to find that thread of Gregorian chant that has managed to weave its way through the music of the centuries, still living and breathing, into today\u2019s choral music.<\/p>\n So if you\u2019ve been reluctant to stray too far from the purity of chant, we invite you venture out into the other choral treasures that Glori\u00e6\u00a0Dei Cantores<\/a> has come to know and love\u2014Gregorian chant\u2019s great-great-grandchildren, if you will. It\u2019s a lineage and heritage worth exploring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lately, Glori\u00e6 Dei Cantores\u2019 chant recordings have received a lot of favorable attention.\u00a0We\u2019re thrilled, of course\u2014we view Gregorian chant as the beloved \u201cgrandfather\u201d of all western music, and it provides the heartbeat of our monastic vocation. \u201cSeven times a day … Continue reading