Workshops in June for Composers, Conductors and Choristers, with Sir James MacMillan

This June, the Catholic Sacred Music Project, run by Peter Carter, offers three separate residential workshops on the beautiful campus of Princeton University in New Jersey. They will be led by a stellar team of composers, conductors and composers: Sir James MacMillan, Gabriel Crouch, Paul Jernberg, Dr James Jordan and Dr Timothy McDonnell.

In the week of June 9-15, the CSMP Composition Institute and CSMP Choral Institute will occur simultaneously, culminating in the choristers singing the new works by the composers. The following week, the CSMP Conductors’ Institute will take place, June 16-21.

Details are given in the three posters below, one for each workshop; also see the Catholic Sacred Music Project website: sacredmusicproject.org.

The Catholic Sacred Music Project was founded in 2021 to provide spiritual and musical formation for Catholic musicians in order to effect a widespread renewal of sacred music in the Church. 

I will be present through my association (as Artist-in-Residence) with one of the co-sponsors, the Scala Foundation. Other co-sponsors are Paul Jernberg’s Magnificat Institute, the Benedict XVI Institute and the Aquinas Institute, which is the Catholic campus ministry for Princeton University.

Final Mass of the CMAA Colloquium

The final Mass of the CMAA Colloquium took place yesterday at the Cathedral Basilica of Ss Peter and Paul in Philadelphia, a votive Mass of church’s patron Saints celebrated in the Extraordinary Form by the CMAA’s chaplain, Fr Robert Pasley. The Mass Ordinary was the six-part Missa Tu es Petrus by Palestrina, and motets included Tu es Petrus by Fauré, Ave verum corpus by Philip Stopford, Cantate Domino by Pitoni and Ave Maria by Bruckner. The Conductors pictured are Dr Timothy McDonnell and Charles Cole; the organist was Peter Carter. The final photograph shows the Colloquium participants gathered after the Mass.

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Requiem Mass in the Extraordinary Form at the CMAA Colloquium

On Friday at the CMAA Colloquium, a solemn Requiem Mass was celebrated by Fr Michael DeSaye at the Cathedral Basilica of St Peter and Paul in Philadelphia. The Mass Ordinary was the Missa pro defuncto Archiepiscopo Sigismondo by Michael Haydn with orchestra; the conductors pictured are David Hughes and Dr Timothy McDonnell. The soloists were Mary Ann Carr-Wilson, Charlene Angelini (the director of music at the cathedral), Nicholas Lemme and Michael Garrepy. A Requiem Mass is offered each year at the Colloquium for deceased members of the CMAA.

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Mass for the Feast of St Thomas, Apostle at the CMAA Colloquium

Yesterday at the CMAA Colloquium, Fr James Richardson offered Mass in the Ordinary Form on the feast of St Thomas the Apostle at the Cathedral Basilica of Ss Peter and Paul in Philadelphia. The Latin propers were sung with Chant Mass IV; among the the motets sung were Quia vidisti me, Thoma by Hassler, Mitte manum by Isaac and O salutaris hostia by Anerio. The choir directors pictured are Nathan Knutson, Dr. Timothy McDonnell and David Hughes; the organist was Michael Garrepy.

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