Church Music Association’s Sacred Music Colloquium 2019

Photo credit – Charles Cole

It was such a privilege and blessing to attend the Church Music Association of Americas Sacred Music Colloquium in Philadelphia PA last week. Meeting wonderful people and attending the most beautiful Catholic liturgies in the Extraordinary Form and Ordinary Form will be an experience I’ll never forget! It was amazing to sing under the direction of Charles Cole from the London Oratory in a chant schola and polyphonic choir, especially Haydn’s Requiem Mass in the Extraordinary Form last Friday.

Click here to hear the audio recordings of the liturgies and lectures during the week. Below is the Agnus Dei from the Mass in the Extraordinary Form on July 6th, 2019.


The incense at the Basilica of Ss Peter and Paul Philadelphia, PA. Photo credit Charles Cole
The organ at the Basilica of Ss Peter and Paul in Philadelphia, PA

My arrival at Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station.

Here are pictures from July 5th Requiem Mass in the Extraordinary Form: Missa pro defuncto Archiepiscopo Sigismondo by Michael Haydn. Photo credit to first three pictures below – Charles Cole.

Author: Daniel Lavin