Statement from the Society for the Protection of Westminster Cathedral Choir

Looks like bad leadership is a prevalent problem in the patriarchate of Rome.

Damian Thompson thread

SPWCC website

From March 2020: The battle for the finest cathedral choir in the Catholic church by Damian Thompson

Today from Telegraph: Cardinal Nichols accepts recommendation that choristors will sing seven services a week

What's Happening in Westminster?

Another failure in leadership and accountability?



Westminster Cathedral’s Master of Music resigns by Nick Hallett

Westminster Cathedral Choir row deepens as head of music quits over boarding school arrangements

I don't think I've seen it before; the Westminster Cathedral Choir has its own website now.

Teach the Latins a Thing or Two

about sacred music...

Chant Cafe: Westminster Cathedral Choir in Rome for Consistory Weekend by Kathleen Pluth

BBC: Choral Evensong - Westminster Cathedral Choral Vespers
Choral Vespers from Westminster Cathedral on the Feast of Blessed John Henry Newman

4 days left to listen

Introit: Tout puissant (Poulenc)
Hymn: Iste confessor (Plainsong)
Psalms 14, 111 (Plainsong)
Canticle: Magna et mirabilia (Plainsong)
Responsory: Iustus Dominus (Plainsong)
Magnificat for Double Chorus, Op.164 (Stanford)
Motet: Iustorum animæ (Stanford)
Antiphon: Salve Regina (Poulenc)
Organ Voluntary: Præludium in E minor (Bruhns)
Master of Music: Martin Baker
Assistant Master of Music: Peter Stevens
Organ Scholar: Edward Symington.

Penance According to the Dominican Rite by Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P.

Also at NLM: The London Oratory School's 150th Anniversary Mass at Westminster Cathedral
A Jesuit in a Post-Summorum World: The Jesuit Charism and Mutual Enrichment - Faith and Tradition Series

The Westminster Cathedral Choir at the 11th International Festival of Sacred Music and Art

and the Sistine Chapel Choir, via NLM.



Ask Fr. Barron: What impact does music make on our piety?


TAC:
The Thomas Aquinas College Prayer Book
Alumnus Sees “Encouraging Sign” in Sacred Architecture

Once in Royal David's City

Westminster Cathedral Choir 2011 US Tour

Info here. No stops in DC or Boston, and nothing past the Mississippi.

A new CD out in November: Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611), De Beata Maria Virgine & Surge propera

Posting this late

as I found it only today...

Eric Whitacre, "Lux Aurumque"

From Christmas last year at Westminster Cathedral:


Eric Whitacre

Introduction to the Virtual Choir

Westminster Cathedral Choir - Christus vincit by James MacMillan

Westminster Cathedral Choir / Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla - Deus in adiutorium meum intende

Palestrina, Peccantem me quotidie

More YT videos:



(Ensemble Officium)

2 of Sicut Cervus




Westminster Cathedral Choir:

Tomás Luis de Victoria, Te Deum laudamus

Westminster Cathedral Choir - Portuguese Polyphony

O SACRUM CONVIVIUM - Antonio de Salazar (c.1650 - 1715)

O Magnum Mysterium, Morten Lauridsen King's College Cambridge 2009


Westminster Cathedral Choir

Ave Maria, Pedro de Cristo