The music.\u00a0 Ah, the wonderful music.<\/p>\n
Here’s how the Colloquium runs:\u00a0 Prayer.\u00a0 Eat.\u00a0 Music. Mass. Eat. Music. Music. Eat. Learning. Music. Prayer.\u00a0 Fall into a heap and do it all again tomorrow.<\/p>\n
But for me, it’s the music and the wonderful people which give me energy.\u00a0 So I’ve used a lot of physical energy, but gained so much more back mentally and spiritually.<\/p>\n
After breakfast, we had morning chant practice.\u00a0 I screwed up my courage to be in the Advanced Men’s Schola.\u00a0 It’s very challenging, but I love getting into stuff that forces me to think and concentrate that way.\u00a0 We practiced a couple of pieces that we’re going to use at Mass tomorrow morning:\u00a0 Priusquam te formarem<\/em> (the Gradual) and Justus ut palma florebit<\/em> (the Offertory).\u00a0 Wilko Brouwers is leading this particular group, and has an amazing teaching style which I grew to appreciate last year.\u00a0 He has a great sense of humor and a light approach, but misses nothing.<\/p>\n Check this out:\u00a0 At this morning’s Mass, everyone sang a couple of motets together:\u00a0 Let Thy Merciful Ears, O Lord<\/em>, and Oh How Amiable Are Thy Dwellings<\/em>.\u00a0 The latter we had practice a little bit last night, without accompaniment, and nobody was really sure what the song sounded like as a whole.\u00a0 But this morning, the Spirit graced the group, as well as wonderful acoustics, and we helped each other through it.<\/p>\n Absolutely amazing.\u00a0 I’ll get the recordings posted after I have a chance to process them all in Audacity.<\/p>\n This afternoon’s practice was with the Polyphony Choir I mentioned yesterday.\u00a0 We’re going to sing a bunch of songs for the Holy Hour service on Thursday afternoon, and worked on Domine Non Sum Dignus<\/em> (Tomas Luis de Victoria) and O Salutaris Hostia<\/em> (Pierre de La Rue).\u00a0 This is wonderful, wonderful stuff.<\/p>\n Speaking of wonderful stuff, so are the meals.\u00a0 It’s not easy exercising self control and just grabbing everything that looks good.\u00a0 This University is a fantastic venue for an experience like this.<\/p>\n Oh, and a shout out to my niece – fantastic talking with you today, Nate!\u00a0 You’d better come to Colorado in August, because now it’s committed to a blog!<\/p>\n I’m going to have to head off to the evening lectures pretty soon, but for now – I’m enjoying every minute of it!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/input><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The music.\u00a0 Ah, the wonderful music. Here’s how the Colloquium runs:\u00a0 Prayer.\u00a0 Eat.\u00a0 Music. Mass. Eat. Music. Music. Eat. Learning. Music. Prayer.\u00a0 Fall into a heap and do it all […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[22,23,24],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-carl","4":"has-more-link","5":"post-441","7":"format-standard","8":"category-sacredmusic","9":"post_tag-chant","10":"post_tag-colloquium","11":"post_tag-sacred-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}