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Day: April 19, 2012

  • Gregorian Chant is for Radicals

    “I realize that there is no accounting for taste, and that beauty is a fairly subjective topic. However, I believe that Gregorian Chant is the among the most beautiful music in the world…It may never become your favorite music, but it is unlikely you will be oblivious to its beauty.” — Adam Wood

  • The Monks and the Modernist: What the Benedictines Built at Collegeville

    Marcel Breuer would have been proud. So would Baldwin Dworschak. And maybe even St. Benedict as well. Breuer, the New York Bauhaus-trained architect, and Dworschak, the far-sighted abbot of a Benedictine monastery in rural Minnesota, were the central figures in a unique collaboration that produced one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century religious architecture, the acclaimed…

  • New and Revised Mass Settings: Your Reactions?

    It’s been eight months since new and revised Mass settings have come into use. How is it going?