{"id":247,"date":"2007-10-18T09:24:14","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T09:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/10\/sing-it.html"},"modified":"2007-10-18T09:24:14","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T09:24:14","slug":"sing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/10\/sing-it.html","title":{"rendered":"Sing it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it\/articolo\/171962?eng=y\">Sandro Magister on the Pope and music:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the span of just a few days, a series of events have unfolded at the Vatican which, taken all together, foretell new provisions \u2013 at the pope&#8217;s behest \u2013 to foster the rebirth of great sacred music.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">The events of which Magister writes are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\">An October 8 meeting with the chapter of St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\">The October 10 celebration of Mass in St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica, part of the International Festival of Sacred Music and Art. The Mass setting was &#8220;Tu es Petrus,&#8221; composed in honor of Benedict&#8217;s 80th birthday<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\">The Pope&#8217;s October 13 visit and address to the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\">The replacement of Marini with Marini as Director of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\">And, of course, <em>Summorum Pontificum<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\">It&#8217;s all very interesting.\u00a0His account of the first event:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">On that morning, Benedict XVI held an audience with the &#8220;chapter&#8221; of Saint Peter&#8217;s basilica \u2013 meaning the bishops and priests who, together with the archpriest of the basilica, Angelo Comastri, celebrate Mass and solemn Vespers each Sunday in the most famous church in the Christian world.<br \/>\nThe pope reminded them that &#8220;it is necessary that, beside the tomb of Peter, there be a stable community of prayer to guarantee continuity with tradition.&#8221;<br \/>\nThis tradition goes back &#8220;to the time of Saint Gregory the Great,&#8221; the pope whose name was given to the liturgical chant characteristic of the Latin Church, Gregorian chant.<br \/>\nOne example the pope gave to the chapter of St. Peter&#8217;s was the celebration of the liturgy at the abbey of Heiligenkreutz, the flourishing monastery he had visited just a few weeks earlier in Austria.<br \/>\nIn effect, since just over a year ago, Gregorian chant has been restored as the primary form of singing for Mass and solemn Vespers in Saint Peter&#8217;s basilica.<br \/>\nThe rebirth of Gregorian chant at St. Peter&#8217;s coincided with the appointment of a new choir director, who was chosen by the basilica chapter in February of 2006.<br \/>\nThe new director, Pierre Paul, a Canadian and an Oblate of the Virgin Mary, has made a clean break with the practice established during the pontificate of John Paul II \u2013 and reaffirmed by the previous director, Pablo Colino \u2013 of bringing to sing at the Masses in St. Peter&#8217;s the most disparate choirs, drawn from all over the world, very uneven in quality and often inadequate.<br \/>\nFr. Paul put the gradual and the antiphonal back into the hands of his singers, and taught them to sing Mass and Vespers in pure Gregorian chant. The faithful are also provided with booklets with the Gregorian notation for Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, and the translation of the texts in Italian, English, and Spanish. The results are liturgically exemplary celebrations, with increasing participation from a growing number of faithful from many nations.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s still much to do to bring back to life in St. Peter&#8217;s what was, in ancient times, the Cappella Giulia \u2013 the choir specifically founded for the basilica \u2013 and to revive the splendors of the Roman musical style, a style in which the sacred polyphony pioneered by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Gregorian chant, also sung in the Roman manner (virile and strong, not like the monastic models inspired by Solesmes), alternate and enrich each other.<br \/>\nBut there has been a new beginning. And Benedict XVI wanted to tell the chapter that this is the right path.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Any recent visitors to St. Peter&#8217;s? Can anyone confirm or elaborate on Magister&#8217;s account of what&#8217;s happening?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandro Magister on the Pope and music: In the span of just a few days, a series of events have unfolded at the Vatican which, taken all together, foretell new provisions \u2013 at the pope&#8217;s behest \u2013 to foster the rebirth of great sacred music. The events of which Magister writes are: An October 8&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sing it - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/10\/sing-it.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sing it - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sandro Magister on the Pope and music: In the span of just a few days, a series of events have unfolded at the Vatican which, taken all together, foretell new provisions \u2013 at the pope&#8217;s behest \u2013 to foster the rebirth of great sacred music. 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