SACRED MUSIC DIVISION
Formed in partnership with the St. Paul’s Choir School, the Harvard Catholic Forum’s Sacred Music Division invites participants into a deeper engagement with the soaring beauty of a long and rich musical tradition. Our programs integrate the experience, understanding, and performance of sacred music into the music’s grounding and purpose - in spirituality, theology, devotion and liturgy.
HARVARD CATHOLIC SCHOLA AT ST. PAUL'S
Offered in collaboration with the Harvard Catholic Center
Seeking new Schola members now for the second semester!
Learn and sing repertoire from the Catholic tradition of sacred music, including chant, polyphony, and traditional hymnody, while supporting the regular choir for the 5pm Student Mass on Sundays at St. Paul’s/ Harvard Square during the academic year.
For undergraduate and graduate students, as well as recent graduates, from Harvard and other area universities or conservatories, drawn to Catholic music ministry.
OPEN TO BOSTON AREA UNDERGRAD/GRAD/YOUNG PROFESSIONAL
Offered in collaboration with the Harvard Catholic Center
CHORAL TUTORIAL WORKSHOP
Academic Year, Sundays 3:30-4:30 PM before the 5 PM Mass
Offered by HCF Graduate Fellow Adam Ziccardi
Join us for the second semester!
For those of any ability or skill level, including beginners. Because musical skills are learned. not innate, the workshop offers that learning in a way that is fun, rewarding, and community-building. Each week, learn techniques, drill fundamentals, and master one hymn or chant that can be sung with the choir and Schola at the 5pm Mass. Attend regularly and become a functional singer in less than one semester, and musically literate in one year - building a lifelong skill that is liturgically useful and personally edifying.
Co-presented with St. Paul's Choir School
WHEN NOTRE DAME WAS NEW
MUSIC AND LITURGY IN PARIS C. 1200
Thursday, March 20
St. Paul’s Church & Livestreamed
Presentation: Thomas Forrest Kelly (Harvard)
Demonstration and Performance: The Saint Paul’s Boys Choir with Soloists; Brandon Straub, Music Director
The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, while still in process of construction, was the liturgical setting for ground-breaking developments in musical composition and practice, called by historians “The School of Notre Dame.” After an introductory talk by Thomas Forrest Kelly on the liturgical setting, compositional techniques, and musical brilliance that flowed from the cathedral when it was new, the Boys and Schola of St. Paul's Choir will demonstrate and perform the music. Reception to follow.
In honor of the 100th Anniversary Conference of the Medieval Academy of America, Co-sponsored by the Harvard Christian Alumni Society
Co-Presented with the COLLIS Institute for Catholic Thought, and the Harvard Catholic Center
AN INVITATION TO SPIRITUAL LISTENING:
THE BEAUTY OF MUSIC
Saturday, February 15
Cambridge, MA & Livestreamed
Talk: Elizabeth Lyon Hall
COLLIS/Cornell University
Performance: A Varied Selection Including Music by Palestrina, Tallis, and Anthems from American Hymnody by the Harvard Catholic Schola (dir. William Endicott) and the COLLIS/Cornell Chant Choir (dir. Elizabeth Lyon Hall)
Join us for a combined sacred music performance by the Harvard Catholic Schola and the COLLIS/Cornell Chant Choir student singers, with an introductory talk by Dr. Hall on spiritual listening as a form of prayer and religious expression.
Co-sponsored by the St. Paul’s Choir School, St. Anselm Institute, and Harvard Christian Alumni Society
PREVIOUS SACRED MUSIC EVENTS
Other past events:
MANUSCRIPTS FOR PRAYER AND MUSIC IN HOUGHTON LIBRARY | THOMAS FORREST KELLY
VERDI'S REQUIEM: PRE-PERFORMANCE LECTURE AND DISCUSSION | THOMAS FORREST KELLY