Liturgical Music Conference 2008

Collegeville, Minnesota

June 9-12, 2008

 

Dr. Kim Kasling, Dr. Lynn Trapp, Directors

Sponsored by St. John’s University and Liturgical Press

 

 

LITURGY, MUSIC and OUR DAILY LIVES

 

 

St. John’s University Collegeville, MN is pleased to offer its 28^th annual Liturgical Music Conference.  As our title implies, we are exploring and creating ways to keep music and liturgy vitally present in our daily lives throughout all days of the week, not for Sunday Mass alone.

 

We are very fortunate to have with us this year the Collegeville Composers group , sponsored by the Liturgical Press, as our primary presenters. Composer/liturgical musicians Carol Browning, Paul Inwood, and Paul Ford will take us through “liturgy lived” and “connecting music, worship and life” in a series of keynote talks, breakout sessions, forums, and Conference liturgies.  Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB will help us use elements of accessible Gregorian Chant for parish and small group use.  We will approach the multicultural aspects of sharing life and liturgy in a church embracing many different cultures and ethnic groups-in our own country. There will be choral reading, organ, cantor and voice sessions, handbells, guitar groups.

 

We will also offer brief lessons in organ, piano, voice and guitar.  We will celebrate one another and our communal calling in liturgical music with social activities as well.

 

St. John’s University is a liberal arts institution located in Collegeville, MN, 75 miles northwest of Minneapolis/St. Paul and 10 miles from St. Cloud.  Benedictine monks founded the University in 1857.  The campus is home to the world famous Abbey Church of St. John the Baptist.

 

Register now. It will be just what you need for study, respite and renewal.

For further information contact Deb Guertin at 320-363-3371, dguertin@csbsju.edu.

 

     

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

 

MON. JUNE 9

3:00–6:00pm              Registration in Mary Hall

                                    (those arriving after 6pm see instructions at Mary Hall; 24hour                                             Events Office)

5:00-6:30pm               Dinner

6:30pm                       Optional campus tour;  meet on Abbey church steps

7:30-9pm                    Informal reception for faculty and registrants

9:15pm                       Compline (Night Prayer) - Emmaus Chapel

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TUES. JUNE 10

7-8:30am                    Breakfast

7:30-8:15am               Registration in Mary Hall

8:15-8:30am               Morning Prayer 

8:30-9:30am               Keynote Session:  Liturgy, Living and Lived  - Dr. Paul Ford

9:45-10:45am             Keynote Session:  Liturgical Anthropology  - Paul Inwood

11-11:50am                Music Reading Session   - Paul Inwood 

11:50-1pm                  Lunch

1pm-1:50pm               Keynote Session:  Chant as Human Experience

                                                                                                     - Rev. Anthony Ruff, OSB

2pm-2:50pm               Handbell Techniques

                                    or Guitar/Piano/Organ/Vocal/Composition techniques

                                                                  (brief studio lessons)

3-3:50pm                    Organ Literature for Church and Recital  -   Lynn Trapp

                                    or Guitar/Piano/Vocal/Composition techniques

                                                                  (brief studio lessons)

4-4:50pm                    Choral Techniques - Matthew Mehaffey

5-6:30pm                    Dinner

6:45pm-7:45pm         Choral Techniques   - Matthew Mehaffey

8pm                             Evening Prayer  -  Emmaus Chapel

9pm                            Reception  -  Emmaus Dining room

 

WED. JUNE 11

7-8:30am                    Breakfast

7:30-8:15am               Registration in Music Auditorium, MU 110 

8-8:30am                    Morning Prayer 

8:30-9:30am              Keynote Session:  Exploring Multicultural Issues for the                                   

                                                        Universal Church  - Carol Browning

9:45-10:45am             Keynote Session:  Foundational Liturgical Formation for                        Pastoral Musicians – the Basic Documents of the Liturgical Renewal 

                                                                                                       - Dr. Paul Ford

11-11:50am                Cantor Ministry and Technique  - Wendy Zaro

 

WED. JUNE 11 continued

11:50-1pm                  Lunch

1pm-1:50pm               Keynote Session:  Chant as Human Experience (continued)

                                                                                                     - Rev. Anthony Ruff, OSB

2-2:50pm                    Handbell Techniques

                                    or Guitar/Piano/Organ/Vocal/Composition Techniques 

                                                           (brief studio lessons)

3pm-3:50pm               Organ Service Playing Techniques -  Kim Kasling    

                                    or Guitar/Piano/Vocal/Composition Techniques 

                                                            (brief studio lessons)

4pm-4:50pm               Cantor Ministry and Technique  - Wendy Zaro

5pm-6:30pm               Dinner

7:00pm                       Forum with Faculty

8:15pm                       Conference Eucharist – Abbey Church

9:15pm                       Piano entertainment, cash bar, dance

 

THURS. JUNE 12

7-8:30am                    Breakfast

7:30am                        Registration in Music Auditorium, MU 110

8:15-8:30am               Morning Prayer  

8:30-9:30am               Keynote Session:  Let the Word Make a Home in Your Heart –            Creative Ways of Connecting Music, Worship and Life  - Carol Browning

(10:30am room checkout)

9:45-10:45am             Keynote Session:  Gathering Rites, Crucial Intersection              

                                     Between Liturgy and Life   - Paul Inwood

11-12noon                  Forum with Faculty

12noon-1pm               Lunch with Liturgical Press

1-1:50pm                    Handbell Techniques

                                    or Guitar/Piano/Organ/Vocal/Composition Techniques 

                                                          (brief studio lessons)

2pm                             Closing Prayer and Farewell

Registration & Fees

Housing, meals and facility cost

            Single room w/3 meals per day

            Housing    $37.50;     Meals  $26.15;     Facility   $4.75 

                        Total per day   $68.40 x 3 days =  $205.20

Course Fee

$170 if received by May 12, 2008

$185 if received after May 13, 2008

Single day course fee:  $79.75   ($75 course fee plus $4.75 facility fee)

Conference participants not staying on campus must include the facility fee with the course fee.

Room accommodations are for the nights of June 9, 10, 11.

All dormitory rooms are supplied with linen sheets, towels, blanket, pillow, soap and essential furniture. 

Each room is air-conditioned and has a sink; restroom and shower facilities are shared.

Meals begin with dinner on June 9 and end with lunch on June 12.  Three meals per day served in the Main Dining Room are cafeteria style.

Registration Form(<--Click Here to Download)

PRESENTERS

Carol Browning, member of the Collegeville Composers Group is Director of Liturgy and Music at St. Mary Magdalen’s Church in Camarillo, California and has been active in music ministry for almost twenty years. A member of the Religious Society of Friends, Carol is a liturgical composer and an independently published inspirational songwriter.

 

Paul F. Ford, PhD, member of the Collegeville Composers Group is professor of systematic theology and liturgy at St. John’s Seminary, Camarillo, California. He is the author of By Flowing Waters: Chant for the Liturgy, published by Liturgical Press.

 

Paul Inwood, member of the Collegeville Composers Group is Director of Liturgy and Director of Music for the Diocese of Portsmouth, England. He is an internationally known liturgist, composer, organist, choir director, and clinician. His liturgical music appears in numerous hymnals worldwide.

 

Rev. Anthony Ruff, OSB,  monk and priest of St. John’s Abbey is an Associate Professor of Theology and Liturgical Music at St. John’s University and founder of the National Catholic Youth Choir.  A frequent presenter and author of many articles, he is a foremost resource in Gregorian chant.

 

Kim R. Kasling, DMA is founder and co-director of the Liturgical Music Conference, Director of Liturgical Music Studies and Professor of Music at the College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University.  Dr. Kasling has written many articles, made several recordings, and concertized widely with critical acclaim throughout the United States, Canada and Europe.  He is founder of the academic program in Liturgical Music Studies at CSB/SJU and teaches organ and music history.  He is also organist at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Mary, Minneapolis.

 

Lynn Trapp, DMA is co-director of the Liturgical Music Conference, and well-known as concert organist, conductor, composer, liturgist and clinician in the United States and abroad.  As composer his organ/choral music is represented by seven major publishers.  He is the recipient of many academic awards including the Spirit and Truth Award from the University of Notre Dame for contributions to the liturgy and music field.  He is Director of Worship/Music, Organist at St. Olaf Catholic Church, downtown Minneapolis.

 

 Michael Mehaffey is Assistant Professor of Music and the Associate Director of Choral Activities at the University of Minnesota.  He has co-authored the GIA Publications series Choral Ensemble Intonation: Method, Procedures, and Exercises with James Jordan of Westminster Choir College, and has co-edited two volumes of Teaching Music Through Performance in Choir; each of these volumes features chapters by some of America's most respected choral conductors as well as repertoire resource guides of over 100 pieces of choral literature.  He serves as the Director of Music at Church of the Good Shepherd United Methodist Church in St. Paul, MN.