Experience the Stunning Beauty of Catholic Liturgical Music

Sacred Music Colloquium XXII will be the most exciting and largest in history. It will be held at the remarkable Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City, Utah; Dates are June 25-July 1, 2012.

You are invited to experience the Sacred Music Colloquium, the largest and most in-depth teaching conference and retreat on sacred music in the world.

This year we are expanding in new directions. You do not need to regard yourself as a singer or even a musician to attend. There are plenty of Gregorian choirs for first-time singers, and sessions are available for those who opt not to sing in a polyphonic choirs. There will be opportunities for both professional musicians and non-musicians who are just interested in the well-being of music at liturgy.

The venue of the Cathedral in Salt Lake is beautiful beyond description. Historically significant as well as aesthetically magnificent, the Cathedral of the Madeleine ranks among the finest locations ever made available for the Sacred Music Colloquium, which has grown in size in scope every year for six years.

Whereas we’ve had to close the conference for lack of space in previous years, this will not be the case this year. We can now accommodate a much larger group.

In addition, the year 2012 promises to be the grandest ever with new opportunities for learning, singing, listening, and interacting with the best minds and musicians in the Catholic world today. The Cathedral Choir School has been wonderfully accommodating and opened up the full use of its facilities for the Colloquium.

You will have the opportunity to see how the Choir School functions, experience the amazing acoustic of the Cathedral, study under the best conductors and intellectuals in the entire Catholic music world, and form new friendships that you will value for years to come.

The primary focus of the Colloquium is instruction and experience in chant and the Catholic sacred music tradition, participation in chant choirs, daily and nightly lectures and performances and daily celebrations of liturgies in both English and Latin. You are there not merely as an attendee but as an integral part of the greatest music you will ever experience. It will will touch your heart and thrill your artistic imagination.

Attendance is open to anyone interested in improving the quality of music in Catholic worship. Professional musicians will appreciate the rigor, while enthusiastic volunteer singers and beginners new to the chant tradition will enjoy the opportunity to study under an expert faculty. Those who choose not to sing at all but merely want to learn will find a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to absorb the full ethos of a world of the best liturgical music.

Do you want to make this trip your family vacation? There are so many things so see and do in the Salt Lake City area. View some of the options at the Convention and Visitors Bureau site.

Once registered, there is no required sign up for individual choirs, scholas, or breakout sessions. Attend as suits your needs. Please see guidelines and descriptions for the different courses in the list above.

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SOME COLLOQUIUM HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Extensive training in Gregorian chant under a world-class faculty, with choices of a chant class for beginners, and intermediate and and advanced chant classes;
  • Morning and afternoon sessions all week with lectures and workshops with the best of the best thinkers and doers in the world of Catholic music;
  • Optional choral experience with one of four large choirs singing sacred music of the masters such as Palestrina, Vierne, Bruckner, Victoria, Byrd, Tallis, Josquin, and many others;
  • Daily liturgies with careful attention to officially prescribed musical settings;
  • Experience in singing or just listening to Mass settings, motets, chants, and responses;
  • Residency in a full service hotel;
  • Two gala dinners with top lecturers and events;
  • Training in vocal production and technique;
  • Conducting practicum;
  • Training for Priests in the sung Mass;
  • Pedagogy demonstrations;
  • Composers’ Forum;
  • Seminars on parish music management, integrating sung parts of the liturgy, polyphonic repertoire for beginning and more established choirs;
  • All music, including prepared packets of chant and polyphony, as part of registration.

LOCATION

Salt Lake City is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, with some of the finest dining, mountainous views, and nicest people anywhere. Under the leadership of the Right Reverend Lawrence Scanlan (1843 – 1915), the first bishop of Salt Lake, the construction of The Cathedral of the Madeleine was begun in the year 1900 and completed in 1909. On August 15 of that year, the cathedral was dedicated by Cardinal James Gibbons of Baltimore. The architects were Carl M. Newhausen and Bernard O. Mecklenburg. The cathedral combines a predominately Romanesque exterior with a Gothic interior. The property on which the cathedral sits was purchased in 1890 for $35,000. The cost of the cathedral construction itself was $344,000.

The exterior of the cathedral remains substantially the same today as it was in 1909. The interior of the cathedral was largely created under the leadership of The Right Reverend Joseph S. Glass, who became Bishop of Salt Lake in 1915. A man of refined taste and strong artistic sensibility, Bishop Glass enlisted the aid of John Theodore Comes, one of the leading architects in America at the time, to undertake beautification of the original plain interior. The Comes interior, begun in 1917, was inspired in great part by the Spanish Gothic of the late Middle Ages. the colorful murals were added at that time, as was the dramatic polychrome evident throughout the building. The ornate reredos shrine of St. Mary Magdalen and the various shrines were notable features of the Comes renovation.

Under the leadership of The Most Reverend William K. Weigand, who was appointed bishop of Salt Lake City in 1980, a much needed restoration of the interior, which had suffered the effects of dirt and pollution in the intervening decades, was planned and executed. The results are on full display today in breathtaking beauty.

FACULTY

Mary Jane Ballou, Cantorae St. Augustine
Wilko Brouwers, Monterverdi Choir, the Netherlands
Dr. Horst Buchholz, St. Louis Cathedral
Charles Cole, Westminster Cathedral; Brompton Oratory
Charles Culbreth, Chant Cafe
Rudy de Vos, Oakland Cathedral
Aristotle Esguerra, Cantemusdomino.net
Dr. Paul Ford, St. John Seminary; Camarillo, CA
Gregory Glenn, Cathedral of the Madeleine
David J. Hughes, St. Mary, Norwalk, CT
Dr. Ann Labounsky, Duquesne University
Dr. Mee Ae Nam, Eastern Michigan University
Kathleen Pluth, St. Louis Church, Alexandria, VA
Dr. William Mahrt, CMAA President, Stanford University
Dr.Jason McFarland, Assistant Editor, ICEL
Jeffrey Morse, St Stephen, the First Martyr Church, Sacramento, California
Arlene Oost-Zinner, CMAA Programs Director; St. Cecilia Schola
Jeffrey Ostrowski, Corpus Christi Watershed
Sister Marie Agatha Ozah, Ph.D., Duquesne University
Rev. Robert Pasley, CMAA Chaplain; Pastor, MaterEccelsiae, Berlin, NJ
Dr. Kurt Poterack, Christendom College
Jonathan Ryan, Organist; Jordan Prize Winner
Dr. Edward Schaefer, University of Florida
Dr. Susan Treacy, Ave Maria University
Jeffrey Tucker, Chant Cafe, CMAA Director of Publications
Msgr. Andrew Wadsworth, Executive Director, ICEL
Dr. Paul Weber, Franciscan University of Steubenville

UNDERGRADUATE OR GRADUATE CREDIT OPTIONS

The Mary Pappert School of Music at Duquesne University will be extending the option of two hours of undergraduate or graduate credit to interested Colloquium participants. Dr. Ann Labounsky, chair of Sacred Music at Duquesne University and internationally known organist, will be your faculty adviser. Registration and payment information for undergraduate or graduate credit is provided by Duquesne Universtiy and payable to Duquesne University.To register for two graduate credits, please download the Summer Course Registration Sheet 2012. If you are interested in obtaining two undergraduate credits, you must first file a formal application with Duquesne University. For more details about the application process, please contact Director of Music Admissions, Troy Centofanto, at <http://www.privatedaddy.com?q=bFcJXktfX01QVkxnb2N3YGZGCw0fVl1Da0pE_50> Note that registering for credit at Duquesne is supplemental to registering for the program with the CMAA through the registration process outlined below. Any questions concerning Duquesne’s policies should be directed to Mr. Chris Bromley at 1.800.934.0159 or <http://www.privatedaddy.com?q=clcXWk1MVlVKTFxOZHh1DmdXD0NrSkQ-3D_50>

A FEW COMMENTS FROM HUNDREDS:

See the sound files from 2007-2009.

  • “I still can’t get over the unforgettable experience of attending the Colloquium. It was a real eye-opener and has enriched me musically, spiritually and intellectually. The instructors were excellent! The food and entertainment were great! The Masses were heavenly! I am already looking forward to the next one and hope I could bring along more people to help in restoring the Church’s musical and liturgical treasures.” Edwin Fernandez
  • “Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the wonderful work you all put into the Colloquium. This was my second year attending and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. The information was great, the conducting was amazing and the organization was fabulous. I had tears in my eyes several times during the Masses… I attended the colloquium last year as a volunteer musician at our parish and this year I attended as music director for our parish. I was hired three months ago and since then we have completely revamped our 11:30 Mass. Our pastor and I did a ton of education through bulletin inserts and preaching. I immediately formed a schola….”
  • “It was a wonderful experience for me, truly six days of heaven, and I will never forget it. I particularly enjoyed the conducting class, and the polyphony rehearsals, the lectures and organ performances and improvisations, all the Masses, of course. In short, everything that I attended. I know that this success did not come without a tremendous amount of work on everyone’s part…” Dove Pierce
  • “The CMAA Colloquium has now indisputably claimed a place among prestigious and well-run music conferences. You will certainly want to attend next year’s event – this was my first time, and the experience was overwhelmingly positive!” Gary Penkala, Cantica Nova Publications

SCHOLARSHIPS:

The CMAA is an all volunteer organization, and wholly dependent on donations for scholarships. If you are interested in sponsoring a musician, priest, or seminarian’s attendance, please write to us at <http://www.privatedaddy.com?q=cVAVUFpfVlN5SEp9aW5lU2NQCEJUUUdBQ2tKRA-3D-3D_50>. If you are registering yourself and would like to give a little extra toward scholarships, you can add that amount to your own fees, and indicate as much on the online or mail in registration form. No amount is to small. All donations are applied directly to scholarships.

REGISTRATION FEES:

  • Tuition: $630 (Includes $75 nonrefundable deposit, all sessions, materials, two magnificent gala dinners, closing brunch on Sunday, and lunch on Tuesday through Saturday). Registration deadline: May 22, 2012. For special dietary needs, add an additional $25. A late fee of $25 will be charged if not registered and paid in full by May 22.
  • Hotel accommodations are at the charming Little America Hotel, a Salt Lake tradition. We have special conference prices at  $69, $94, or $114 for single or double rooms. This means that you can share at a very low price or live in luxury all week at a hotel that would cost four times that amount in an east coast city. Make your hotel reservation [see top of page for reservation link] before May 24 to lock in the CMAA conference price.)

REGISTER FOR THE COLLOQUIUM


NEW MUSIC READING SESSION

Information forthcoming

If you are registered and have not yet paid your fee in full, (please add $25 if later than May 22, 2012) go to this online payment site to pay your full amount or balance.
or by mailing your check to:

CMAA Programs, 166 North Gay St., Suite 21, Auburn, AL 36830

Please write us or call us at 334.444.5584 if you have further questions.

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