Music

Darius Milhaud described himself as “a Frenchman from Provence, and by religion a Jew."

Not singing Popule meus or Crux fidelis on Good Friday has not contributed to edifying anyone, on the contrary, the faithful have been deprived of a great spiritual treasure.

Thank God that he was able to contribute some beauty to the world despite his sins and struggles.

There is always something new, beautiful and noble that can be said about her and it is up to us, useless servants, to say it through the little or much talent that God has given us.

It was dedicated to the memory of the German Heroes fallen in the Great War.

The Sorrowful Virgin shared in the work of redemption with Jesus Christ.

It’s all very subtle but long experience in seminaries and religious communities shows that the more unified the sound, the more everyone can lose themselves in the prayer of the Church.

The hymns he composed were, at the time of French Revolution, on the lips of the Blessed 47 Martyrs of Avrillé.

This week and next, I will share practical and speculative points on singing Gregorian chant well that I have learned by leading scholas, by participating in them, and by listening to masters discuss what they do and why. My points are not put forward here as “Gospel truths”; they are merely an attempt to put…