We sang for the Fraternity of St Peter apostolate in St William of York, Reading, last Sunday.
Some more photos.
Friday, 10 June 2011
St William of York, Reading
We sang for the Fraternity of St Peter apostolate in St William of York, Reading, last Sunday.
Some more photos.
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
Term Card: Long Vacation 2011
Long Vacation 2011
July
Mon 11th July, Centenary of SS Edmund & Frideswide
Sung Mass 7pm, SS Edmund & Frideswide (Greyfriars)
August
Mon 15th, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
6pm Sung Mass, SS Gregory & Augustine
September
Thurs 8th, Nativity of BVM,
6pm Sung Mass, SS Gregory & Augustine
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Polyphony for Our Lady and Bl J.H. Newman
The schola sang for the Pilgrimage to Littlemore organised jointly by the LMS, Juventutem Oxford and the Oxford Newman Society. Here are some videos from Mass, which was a votive Mass of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, with variations for Paschal time.
The Mass propers are mostly modern, though as is usual they are based on earlier chants. The only one which appears in the 1908 Gradual is the first of the Alleluias.
Introit, and Brumel Kyrie
Offertory, Exsultavit, followed by a polyphonic motet, Brumel's Sub tuum praesidium.
The Mass propers are mostly modern, though as is usual they are based on earlier chants. The only one which appears in the 1908 Gradual is the first of the Alleluias.
Introit, and Brumel Kyrie
Offertory, Exsultavit, followed by a polyphonic motet, Brumel's Sub tuum praesidium.
Polyphony for St George
At the Mass for the feast of St George we had a polyphonic Regina Caeli. This setting of the Regina Caeli is by Robert White (c. 1538 – 1574), an English Catholic composer.
Monday, 9 May 2011
Schola Abelis at the Spanish Place workshop with Dom Lelièvre
Several members of the Schola Abelis were at the 'advanced students' sessions of this workshop in London with Dom Yves-Marie Lelièvre, Choirmaster at the Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes, France. It was a great occasion.
More here.
More here.
Monday, 11 April 2011
The Schola Abelis at the GCN Chant Course
Six members of the Schola attended the Gregorian Chant Network's Weekend Chant Course directed by Colin Mawby, which took place last weekend (Friday to Sunday) at the Oratory School near Reading. Five of us provided a schola for the opening Mass.
The course was extremely successful, and we all learnt a huge amount from Colin Mawby's experience of singing and directing chant, which goes back to the 1940s, and his great sensitivity to it. He demonstrated in a quite remarkable way how small changes to tempo and emphasis can make a piece of chant sound quite different, and how groups of singers can respond to interpretative suggestions.
Colin Mawby is well known as a composer, and was Director of Music at Westminster Cathedral in the 1960s. For more on the course, see the Gregorian Chant Network.
The course was extremely successful, and we all learnt a huge amount from Colin Mawby's experience of singing and directing chant, which goes back to the 1940s, and his great sensitivity to it. He demonstrated in a quite remarkable way how small changes to tempo and emphasis can make a piece of chant sound quite different, and how groups of singers can respond to interpretative suggestions.
Colin Mawby is well known as a composer, and was Director of Music at Westminster Cathedral in the 1960s. For more on the course, see the Gregorian Chant Network.
Thursday, 7 April 2011
Term Card for Trinity 2011
This is a very exciting Term Card for the schola, including more events than we have ever had in one term before. We will be singing in Greyfriars in Oxford for the first time, and returning to the Oratory. We will be singing in the historic Catholic house of Stonor at the first Traditional Mass to take place there since 1970. We will be supporting two new walking pilgrimages organised by the Latin Mass Society and Juventutem Oxford, to Littlemore and to Our Lady of Oxford. Among the chants we will be singing the great sequences of Pentecost and Corpus Christi. And for the first time, we will be marking the Feast of St George, which does not usually fall in term time but has been displaced by the late Easter to 3rd May.
Practices as customary in Queen's College, at 8.15 on Wednesdays, unless otherwise arranged.
First Week
Tues 3rd May 6pm: St George
Ss Gregory & Augustine
Sat 7th May Pilgrimage to Littlemore
in honour of Bl J.H. Newman
2.30pm Sung Mass Greyfriars (Ss Edmund & Frideswide)
Followed by walk to Littlemore and Vespers
2nd Week
Sat 14th May Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Oxford, Oxford Oratory
Walk from Abingdon Abbey, Abingdon, departing 11am
Sung Mass, Oxford Oratory, 3.30pm
4th Week
Thurs 26th May 6pm: St Augustine of Canterbury
Ss Gregory & Augustine's
6th Week
Sun 5th June 11am: Sunday in the Octave of the Ascension
St William of York, Reading
Tuesday 7th June, 4pm: Newman Society Mass, Oxford Oratory
7th Week
Thurs 16th June, 11am: Whit Thursday
followed by blessing of lilies and veneration of a relic
of St Anthony of Padua
Church of St Anthony of Padua, Headington
8th Week
Sun 19th June 6.30pm Trinity Sunday
Stonor Chapel, near Henley-on-Thames
Thurs 23rd Corpus Christi
Sung Mass 6pm Ss Gregory & Augustine
9th Week
Wed 29th June 6pm: Ss Peter & Paul
Ss Gregory & Augustine
Friday 1st July 6pm: Sacred Heart
Ss Gregory & Augustine
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