15Fall Sacred Music Schedule of Events
September 14-17, 2022
Vallombrosa Retreat Center, Menlo Park, CA
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
4:00 pm Check-in
5:00 pm Welcome and General Chant Ordinary Instruction (All) [Mass setting Cum jubilo IX – Kyrie/Gloria, English Missal Chants, Sanctus/Agnus Dei, Sequence] Vallombrosa Chapel
6:00 pm Opening dinner – Vallombrosa Dining hall
7:00 pm Vespers, Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Night prayer, Vallombrosa Chapel
Thursday, September 15, 2022
7:30 am Breakfast
8:30 am Morning Prayer (Vallombrosa Chapel)
9:00 am Choral warm-up
9:15 – 10:15 am Chant Rehearsals (Conference Room, Vallombrosa Chapel)
10:15 – 10:35 am Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:45 am Breakout Sessions, Conference Room, Vallombrosa Chapel
Dr. Jennifer Donelson-Nowicka (Modes and their Pedagogical Utilities)
Dr. William Mahrt (Distinction between the Mass Ordinaries)
11:50 – 12:45 pm Lunch
12:50 – 2:00 pm Polyphony Instruction (Conference Room, Vallombrosa Chapel)
2:05 – 3:20 pm Chant Instruction (Conference Room, Vallombrosa Chapel)
3:25 – 3:45 pm Coffee Break
3:45 – 4:15 pm General Chant Ordinary Instruction (All) [Mass settings Cum jubilo IX and Pater cuncta XII] – Kyrie, Sanctus/Agnus Dei) Chapel
4:45 pm Mass – DAILY MASS OF Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows , English or English/Latin, St. Patrick’s Seminary
6:30 pm Dinner, Talk by Fr. Samuel Weber
~9:00 pm Night Prayer, Vallombrosa Chapel
Friday, September 16, 2022
7:30 am Breakfast
8:30 am Morning Prayer (Vallombrosa Chapel)
9:00 am Choral warm-up (Vallombrosa Chapel)
9:15 – 10:30 am Chant Rehearsals (Conference Room, Vallombrosa Chapel)
10:30 – 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 pm Breakout Sessions, Conference Room, Vallombrosa Chapel
Dr. Horst Buchholz (Choral Rehearsal Planning)
Fr. Robert Pasley (The Hierarchy of Sung Liturgies and What should the priest sing at Mass?)
12:00 – 12:55 pm Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 pm Polyphony Instruction (Conference Room, Vallombrosa Chapel)
2:05 – 3:20 pm Chant Instruction (Conference Room, Vallombrosa Chapel)
3:25 – 3:45 pm Coffee Break
3:50 – 4:15 p.m. General Chant Ordinary Instruction (All) [Mass setting (Pater cuncta XII) – Kyrie/Gloria, Sanctus/Agnus Dei) Vallombrosa Chapel
4:45 pm Mass – DAILY MASS, OF, Memorial of Ss Cornelius and Cyprian , Latin, St. Patrick’s Seminary
6:30 pm Dinner Remarks by Maggie Gallagher, Benedict XVI Institute and Archdiocese of San Francisco
8:00 pm Organ Recital St. Patrick’s (proposed)
9:00 pm Night Prayer (St. Patrick’s)
Saturday, September 17, 2022
7:30 am Breakfast
8:30 am Morning Prayer (Vallombrosa Chapel)
9:00 am Choral warm-up (Vallombrosa Chapel)
9:15 – 10:00 am Chant/Polyphony Rehearsals (Conference Room, Vallombrosa Chapel)
10:00 – 10:20 am Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:30 pm Polyphony
12:00 – 1:15 pm Mass, OF, Memorial of St. Hildegard of Bingen, St. Patrick’s Seminary
1:30 pm Check out