10am
Gregorian Chant Workshop
John Rowlands-Pritchard & Opus Anglicanum
The Wulfstan Vespers: Sing Gregorian Chant For a Day
Chapter House
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£38 (To include light lunch)
10 am Session 1 ‘The Story of Gregorian Chant', a lively interactive
lecture-recital by Opus Anglicanum (OA) on the history of chant, with
audience participation in Worcester ‘Laudes Regiae', Salisbury
‘Christmas Day Procession', and mid-morning monastic service of ‘Terce'.
11 am refreshment break
11.20 am Session 2 basic chant notation and performance.
12.40 pm ‘Sext' midday office; workshop participants with OA
1 pm lunch break
2 pm Session 3 music and psalmody of vespers;
the Worcester Antiphoner (MS Worcester F106)
3.40 pm ‘None' afternoon office; workshop participants with OA
4 pm refreshment break
4.20 pm Vespers recitation by the workshop participants with OA of
Worcester Vespers for St Wulfstan's Day, using the appropriate unique
texts and chant from the Worcester Antiphoner.
5 pm end of workshop day.
OPUS
ANGLICANUM have given chant experience days for cathedrals choirs (Ely,
Exeter, Chichester, Chester, Durham, etc) for RSCM and others, and have
performed at major music festivals including 3 Choirs Gloucester,
Southern Cathedrals Festival, and Windsor Festival. Founded in 1988
they continue to perform, record, to commission new music, and to
teach.