The Diocese of Baker is holding a
Gregorian chant workshop! This is certainly welcome news!
Here are the details from the
Diocese of Baker website; I’ve lifted everything from the flyer, which you can find
here.
Patti
Rausch Diocese of Baker Chancery Office
prausch@dioceseofbaker.org
541-388-4004
General
information:
Judy
Newport
mothermarysdhtrs@aol.com
541-923-6946
You’ll notice, of course, that the conference
coincides with the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Mass for
that feast will be celebrated by Bishop Liam Cary at 7pm at St. Mary’s Chapel
at the Powell Butte Retreat Center.
According to the brochure, the
Gregorian Chant conference will provide a unique and much needed focus on how
to understand Gregorian chant and its place in the Sung Roman Liturgy. The four
lectures cover the topics:
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| St. Mary's Chapel |
What
is Gregorian Chant;
The origins
and history of Gregorian chant;
How Gregorian
Chant fulfills the criteria for Traditional Art and Sacred Music;
Differentiation of Gregorian chant according to form and function within the
liturgy;
The
sung liturgy and the music designated for priest, deacon, lector, schola, and
congregation;
Church
documents on Gregorian Chant.
The conference will also provide workshops for those
who want to learn to sing the Order of Mass and the Ordinary of Mass. This will
include introduction to solfage and the reading square note notation.
The conference will be conducted in the context of
prayer and spiritual renewal with the sacrament of reconciliation, daily Mass,
and the liturgy of the hours.
The conference will end with the Vigil Mass Saturday
at 7:00 pm for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time celebrated by Fr. Daniel
Maxwell. For those who are staying overnight, it will end with sung Compline.
The speakers and celebrants for the event are as
follows:
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| Dr. Lynne Bissonnette-Pitre |
Featured
Lecturer and Workshop Leader:
Lynne Bissonnette-Pitre, MD, PhD
Lynne is a physician specialized in psychiatry,
practicing in Portland, Oregon. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Cornell
University; a doctorate at John Hopkins University; and a medical degree at
University of California, Irvine. She did her internship and residency in
psychiatry, as well as two years fellowship in child psychiatry, at the
University of Oregon.
Lynne’s background in music includes proficiency in
the musical instruments: piano, viola, alto saxophone, and mandolin. She played
in orchestra, marching band, and jazz band, and sang in choir and a women’s
ensemble while in school. Lynne sang in the Portland Cathedral choir for 12
years, and has served for 7 years as director and cantor for the Gregorian
Chant Schola Cantus Angelorum. She
has also sung in Gregorian Scholas in Corning, New York; Atlanta, Georgia; and
Bavaria, Germany.
Workshop
Leader: Yumiko Rinta
Yumiko has studied piano for 17 years, is proficient
in voice and flute and, has played in ensembles and sung in the choir in Tokyo,
Japan. She studied harpsichord in Portland, Oregon, under Nancy Metzger, who
now resides in Sacramento, California. Nancy Metzger is a renowned
harpsichordist/organist, author, and professor of music. In the US, Yumiko has
sung with the Saint Paul Cathedral Choir and the St. Mary’s Cathedral choir in
Portland, Oregon. She has been cantor and co-director of Schola Cantus Angelorum for 7 years.
Workshop
Leader: Reverend Daniel Maxwell
As a convert from the Anglican tradition, Fr.
Maxwell has a deep love of the sacred liturgy and of sacred music. He served as
organist and cantor for several parishes for nearly twenty years before his
ordination in 2009 as a priest of the Diocese of Baker.
Liturgy
Celebrants:
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| Most Reverend Liam Cary, Bishop of Baker, Oregon |
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| Reverend Daniel Maxwell, Pastor of Our Lady of Angels, Hermiston, OR |
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| Reverend Robert Greiner, Pastor of St. Joseph, Prineville, OR |
