St. Thomas More Church, Toronto, Seeks Singers.

St. Thomas More Church of the OCSP is now recruiting singers. If you read music, like to sing sacred music, and can attend one practice weekly in addition to Sung Mass at 12:30 noon on Sundays, call for an audition 647-200-8981. Several paid positions are available.

Update on A Gradual for Divine Worship: The Missal

An update on the news reported here last December concerning a gradual for the Divine Worship missal (DWM). The gradual is in the proofreading stage. It follows the DWM outline of minor propers for the Sundays after Trinity.  But it will include an index that cross-references the Graduale Romanum’s chants according to the Ordinary Time…

First Modern Performance of a Tallis Work

According to this piece on the BBC, a work by Thomas Tallis (an early version of his Gaude Gloriosa) was given its first modern performance on 14 April 2017 (Good Friday, as it happens), at St. John’s Smith Square, London.  The manuscript had been stuffed into a wall against the cold at Corpus Christi College,…

Music for the Masses

[An article on congregational settings of the ordinary of the Mass (some for the Ordinary Form of the Latin Rite, some for the Divine Worship Form) in the April 2017 edition of The Portal, which can be found here. The author, Mr. Christopher Smith, is organist and director of music at the Ordinariate Parish of…

Nico Muhly on the Anglican Choral Heritage

[Nico Muhly is one of today’s most successful composers, and he owes a good deal of that success to the inspiration he draws from the Anglican choral tradition. He is perhaps best known for his secular music and is the youngest composer to have been commissioned to write operas for the Metropolitan Opera (his second…