Someone asked me once how many recordings I’ve made I could kind of workout about 400 lot of sailors and lot of orchestras and conductors when I was asked to do this recording I was only told would you be free to make a recording into the Braska this is a very
Interesting project for me it’s very pleasurable working with them Requiem the music – a Requiem Mass a Gregorian chant type and some polyphonic like Alice creamer de lasso martini good that sounded nice this order obviously put a lot of emphasis on musical training they’re very concentrated they know this
Stuff intimately it seems to roll from them like poetry one has lunch many times the quality is very good they have wonderful voices which is ideal for this music it’s been a lovely project I’m a bothered Eric Wong I am stationed in Montreal Quebec before I came to the seminary for the fraternity I have studied for years of music with a specialty in Opera after that I sang two years professionally with different opera companies in Canada the tradition of singing the styles of chant that we
Do goes all the way back to ancient Rome but even has its sources as certain people believe in Jerusalem so it’s a crossroads of many cultures so there’s even some sounds that we could say come from the east I was asked to be the director of the Scala for this Requiem
Project music is a big part of our life I was very grateful for the experience to record these beautiful girl or enchants we all knew these chants because we would sing these Requiem masses very often we are united by these ancient chants I think the listener will really feel
The sentiments that we should be filled with when someone dies we’re sad and so the priest wears black but it’s not a morbid sadness because we have hope that God is merciful and that he will bring the soul to heaven Certainly Mozart would have used the Requiem Gregorian chants as a model there’s a simplicity in these chants a somber and a profound beauty this music speaks to the soul at Our Lady of Guadalupe seminary the International House of formation for English speakers in the fraternity all the seminarians
Here in the curriculum are required to take music training and we find this to be helpful for them to acquire exposure to goo-gooing chants we think that music out of all the arts is important for them because of that that sets the tone sets a sort of atmosphere
I was born raised on Long Island New York Trudy began in 1988 I was in Rome and with our family seminary over in Bavaria Germany Colvig redspot the average age of priests about 35 were in the three countries in North America we are in Colombia and then Australia
New Zealand Nigeria and then France Germany in Czech Republic and Poland the Helene does well as England I was 19 years old I invitation go to a high-mass I had no idea what was going on I understand a word I said is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen so
Directly I’m the whole project I loved the ideas an opportunity to do something that’s beautiful what we do is not a performance this is what we live this is our life we all have an interior desire for happiness we all have this desire that cannot be met by anything in this world
This world is not our final resting place the chant has a heritage and it’s not enough that we recite the text we have to sing them because it’s part of human nature to express beauty love all the emotions in song and that’s what people I think will will realize that
When they hear this music they are transported to a different time it’s ever ancient but it’s ever new here we are singing it in the year 2017
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