Conviviumm Marianum
Join us for the third annual Convivium Marianum, a unique celebration that combines prayers and readings from the daily office of Marian feasts throughout the year with beautiful sacred music dedicated to Mary.
This joyful celebration on Gaudete Sunday helps us prepare for the coming of Christ on Christmas and reflect on the Blessed Virgin’s vital role in salvation history.
Attendees enjoy singing familiar Marian hymns and a large choir of professionals and volunteers including the Chicago Catholic Choir and the Vox Fideles Children’s Choir.
$15 suggested donation. For more information and to RSVP, visit the St. Gregory’s Hall site.
Concert for the Holy Family
Join the Chicago Catholic Choir for its second season, which opens with a selection of music dedicated to the Holy Family. The choir will be joined by the Vox Fideles Children’s Choir and the Chicago Catholic Choir String Ensemble.
PROGRAM
Jesu, dulcis memoria - Victoria
Ave Maria - Mozart
Hail, Holy Joseph - Kevin Allen
Filii, quid fecisti nobis - Lassus
O Joseph, Virgo Pater - William Fritz
Selections from Stabat Mater - Pergolesi (performed by the Vox Fideles Choir)
O Gente felix ospita - Anonymous
O Lux Beata Caelitum - Kevin Allen
Concert for the Holy Family
Join the Chicago Catholic Choir for its second season, which opens with a selection of music dedicated to the Holy Family. The choir will be joined by the Vox Fideles Children’s Choir and the Chicago Catholic Choir String Ensemble.
PROGRAM
Jesu, dulcis memoria - Victoria
Ave Maria - Mozart
Hail, Holy Joseph - Kevin Allen
Filii, quid fecisti nobis - Lassus
O Joseph, Virgo Pater - William Fritz
Selections from Stabat Mater - Pergolesi (performed by the Vox Fideles Choir)
O Gente felix ospita - Anonymous
O Lux Beata Caelitum - Kevin Allen
Open Auditions for the 2024-25 Season
The Chicago Catholic Choir is auditioning singers for the 2024/2025 season.
Open Audition Dates: Sundays: June 23, June 30, July 7th
Auditions start after Mass in the Choir Loft at St. Gregory the Great. Walk-ins Welcome!
For more information, please contact us.
Open Auditions for the 2024-25 Season
The Chicago Catholic Choir is auditioning singers for the 2024/2025 season.
Open Audition Dates: Sundays: June 23, June 30, July 7th
Auditions start after Mass in the Choir Loft at St. Gregory the Great. Walk-ins Welcome!
For more information, please contact us.
Open Auditions for the 2024-25 Season
The Chicago Catholic Choir is auditioning singers for the 2024/2025 season.
Open Audition Dates: Sundays: June 23, June 30, July 7th
Auditions start after Mass in the Choir Loft at St. Gregory the Great. Walk-ins Welcome!
For more information, please contact us.
Convivium Marianum
The Chicago Catholic Choir joined the St. Gregory Schola and the Vox Fidelis Childrens Choir for “Convivium Marianum: A Prayerful Contemplation of the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Scripture & Song,” which was presented by St. Gregory’s Hall.
Music for the program included:
Ave Maria, Kevin Allen
Dixit Maria, Hans Leo Hassler
O Emmanuel, Kevin Allen
Jesu, Thou the Virgin Born, Gustav Holtz
When to the Temple Mary Went, Johann Eccard
Regina Caeli, Gregor Aichinger
A Song of Two Countries: Choral Music of America & France
France has had a unique relationship with North America since long before our Revolutionary War. This inaugural concert by the Chicago Catholic Choir is a tribute to the legacy of the “Blackrobes”. The French missionaries who established the first peaceable relations with the Native Americans based on motives of true friendship rather than trade, whose missionary apostolate was continued even beyond our Civil War era to by Catholic refugees from the French Revolution, and their successors in the European Catholic revival.
Accordingly, this repertoire comes from a variety of French composers, from the Renaissance to modern times, along with three Americans. Additionally, the text of various polyphonic pieces will first be sung in Gregorian chant, giving a taste of the original style which enshrined these words in music.
It is much easier to understand the Americans if we connect them with the French who were their allies than with the English who were their enemies… American history is haunted with the shadow of the Plebiscitary President; they have a tradition of classical architecture for public buildings. Their cities are planned upon the squares of Paris and not upon the labyrinth of London. They call their cities Corinth and Syracuse, as the French called their citizens Epaminondas and Timoleon. Their soldiers wore the French kepi; and they make coffee admirably, and do not make tea at all.
- G. K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America
PROGRAM
O Sanctissima, arrranged by Jeff Ostrowski
Crux Triumphans, Loyset Compere
Ave Maria, Josquin des Prez
Adorote Te Devote, Mel Bonis
Pater Noster, Charles Gounod
Ave Maria, Theodore Dubois
Prayer to St. Michael, Kevin Allen
Emendemus in Melius, Alfred Calabrese
The Song of Hezekiah, Kevin Allen
Cantique de Jean Racine, Gabriel Fauré
A Song of Two Countries: Choral Music of America & France
France has had a unique relationship with North America since long before our Revolutionary War. This inaugural concert by the Chicago Catholic Choir is a tribute to the legacy of the “Blackrobes”. The French missionaries who established the first peaceable relations with the Native Americans based on motives of true friendship rather than trade, whose missionary apostolate was continued even beyond our Civil War era to by Catholic refugees from the French Revolution, and their successors in the European Catholic revival.
Accordingly, this repertoire comes from a variety of French composers, from the Renaissance to modern times, along with three Americans. Additionally, the text of various polyphonic pieces will first be sung in Gregorian chant, giving a taste of the original style which enshrined these words in music.
It is much easier to understand the Americans if we connect them with the French who were their allies than with the English who were their enemies… American history is haunted with the shadow of the Plebiscitary President; they have a tradition of classical architecture for public buildings. Their cities are planned upon the squares of Paris and not upon the labyrinth of London. They call their cities Corinth and Syracuse, as the French called their citizens Epaminondas and Timoleon. Their soldiers wore the French kepi; and they make coffee admirably, and do not make tea at all.
- G. K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America
PROGRAM
O Sanctissima, arrranged by Jeff Ostrowski
Crux Triumphans, Loyset Compere
Ave Maria, Josquin des Prez
Adorote Te Devote, Mel Bonis
Pater Noster, Charles Gounod
Ave Maria, Theodore Dubois
Prayer to St. Michael, Kevin Allen
Emendemus in Melius, Alfred Calabrese
The Song of Hezekiah, Kevin Allen
Cantique de Jean Racine, Gabriel Fauré