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Fall 2012 Auditions

2012-01-07T14:40:00-05:00

Fall 2012 auditions for the Notre Dame Liturgical Choir will be held on Sunday, August 26 and Monday, August 27 in the DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts. Membership in the Liturgical Choir is open to undergraduate and graduate students from all colleges.

At your audition, you will be asked to sing a prepared piece or a hymn that you know (Amazing Grace, My Country ’Tis of Thee, Praise to the Lord are popular choices!). We will test your range and your ear, and conclude the audition with a sight-reading exercise. The choral audition takes less than 10 minutes. We encourage all new students to sign up for an audition as early as possible by clicking here.

Spring Tour 2012, Italy

2011-10-25T02:00:00-04:00

March 11th-18th, 2012

This Spring, the University of Notre Dame Liturgical Choir will be making an eight day international tour of Italy, which will include stops in Rome, Vatican City, Assisi, and Florence. The choir will sing at many prominent historic churches including the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome, and St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. The choir will be singing a number of concerts and Masses, as well as during a general audience with the Holy Father.

To support the choir financially for this trip, click on the giving tab on the sidebar.

Liturgical Choir televised live on CatholicTV

2010-05-08T09:00:00-04:00

Notre Dame’s Basilica Mass to be televised live by CatholicTV
By: Michael O. Garvey

The 10 a.m. (ET) Sunday Mass in the University of Notre Dame’s Basilica of the Sacred Heart will be televised live weekly on CatholicTV beginning Sunday, November 30, 2008.

“We are pleased to partner with CatholicTV to provide the Basilica Mass each Sunday morning,” said Rev. Richard V. Warner, C.S.C., director of campus ministry. “CatholicTV has strong East coast distribution and a strategy for growing its cable audience on a nationwide scale. We are firmly committed to bringing quality Catholic liturgies to a national and global audience,”

CatholicTV, formerly Boston Catholic Television, can be found on Comcast, Verizon, Full Channel and RCN cable providers in New England. It also can be viewed nationally on Sky Angel IPTV (www.skyangel.com), which specializes in Christian and family-friendly television and radio programming that is available by subscription through a broadband Internet connection and small set-top box.

The Mass from Notre Dame is also streamed live and archived online at http://www.CatholicTV.org.

Notre Dame’s Liturgical Choir provides sacred music for the Mass during the academic year. The Basilica Community Collegium Choir provides the music for the liturgy when classes are not in session. The broadcast captures the choral voices as they are heard inside the Basilica, which is usually filled to capacity and remarkable for the enthusiastic liturgical participation of all in attendance.

The Mass was broadcast on the Hallmark Channel from 2002 to last June, as well as on DIRECTV in 2007. Since June, the Basilica staff has received thousands of letters and messages urging the Mass continue to be available on television. Many viewers are housebound or otherwise unable to attend Mass at their local parish, and others report that the Basilica Mass enriches their experience of local parish liturgies.

Technical production of the Mass is managed by Pentavision Communications Inc., which operates the broadcast equipment from a control room in the basement of the Basilica. The audio and video equipment required has been installed with architectural discretion and designed to capture the beauty of the liturgy without disrupting the prayerful participation of the congregation.

Information on the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, including instructions for downloading the Mass on the Internet, viewing liturgical readings and music texts online, and taking a virtual tour of the Basilica, is available at http://basilica.nd.edu.

Spring Tour 2010

2010-05-08T08:00:00-04:00

Holy Name Cathedral

May 9, 2010
5:00 PM
735 North State Street
Chicago, Illinois

The University of Notre Dame Liturgical Choir will sing at a Mass on the evening of Sunday, May 9, 2010, that will begin at 5:00 PM, at Holy Name Cathedral.

The choir will present a diverse concert of Liturgical Music – including motets, polyphony, and modern folk hymns – after the conclusion of the Mass.

For more information please contact the music department at Holy Name Cathedral at 312.664.6963.

Saint Andrew Catholic Church

May 10, 2010
7:30 PM
301 North Main Street
Verona, Wisconsin
608-845-6613

The event is free and open to the public, with all donations going to Saint Hermine’s Home in India.

Blood Drive

2009-11-09T16:52:00-05:00

Flu outbreaks and pneumonia have significantly decreased the number of blood donations both locally and nationwide. In response to this, the Liturgical Choir and Campus Ministry, in partnership with the South Bend Medical Foundation, is sponsoring a campus-wide blood drive. Details are as follows:

Date: Monday, November 23

Location: Hammes Student Lounge, Coleman-Morse Center

Time: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Walk-in donations are accepted, but an appointment is strongly encouraged. To sign up for a time slot, please visit: http://tinyurl.com/lcblooddrive. Each appointment lasts approximately 45 minutes.

Each donor will receive a FREE T-SHIRT as well as a coupon for a turkey from Martin’s Supermarkets. Additionally, you will be entered to win a $500 VISA gift card from the South Bend Medical Foundation.

For further detail on blood donation, including donor qualifications, please visit: http://givebloodnow.com.

The Liturgical Choir thanks you in advance for your participation in this life-saving effort.

Bookstore Concerts

2009-10-21T22:13:00-04:00

The Liturgical Choir cordially invites you to concerts on Fridays of home football weekends.The concerts are held after the pep rally, and are scheduled as follows:

Friday, November 6, 2009 – Navy weekend
Friday, November 20, 2009 – Connecticut weekend

All concerts are held at 8 pm in the atrium of the bookstore.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Calling all Alumni

2009-10-13T19:51:00-04:00

This year, due to the fact that fall break begins and ends with home games (USC and Boston College), I would like to invite alumni that are visiting campus to join the current members of the Liturgical Choir in the loft on Sunday morning. We’ll begin with a rehearsal in 329 Coleman-Morse at 8:30 and then walk to the Basilica, robe and sing at 10:00 a.m. On Sunday, October 18, we will sing the Tallis A New Commandment and Tallis Verily, verily. On October 25, we will sing the Howells All My Hope on God is Founded and the well-loved chant Adoro te. All Liturgical Choir alumni are encouraged to get up and start Sunday the way you did while you were here. . .we’d love to hear you again! If you want to look at the music before Sunday, email me (gwalton@nd.edu) for an electronic copy of the music.

ND vs. USC Concession Stand

2009-09-09T21:33:00-04:00

Will you be on campus for the ND vs. USC game? If so, visit the Notre Dame Liturgical Choir Concession Stand! Join Gail, Andy, and the choir members for a burger or brat before the game!

Saturday, October 17, 2009
8:00 am – Game time
South Quad Flagpole

Fall 2009 Auditions

2009-07-26T20:20:00-04:00

Attention incoming freshmen:

Fall 2009 auditions for the Notre Dame Liturgical Choir will be held on Sunday, August 23 and Monday, August 24 in the DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts. Membership in the Liturgical Choir is open to undergraduate and graduate students from all colleges.

Florida Tour 2009

2009-01-10T20:18:00-05:00

From January 4-10, 2009, the Liturgical Choir embarked on a concert tour of Florida. The choir presented concerts of sacred music in the cities of Davie, Ft. Myers, Brandon, and Winter Springs, FL, as well as in Wheaton, IL during a brief stopover. Between concerts, the choir found time to enjoy the diversions and beautiful weather of Florida, including Naples, Disney World, and a beach day in Ft. Myers. Very special thanks go out to all of the parishes and families that hosted choir members, as well as Notre Dame Alumni clubs that aided in travel, accommodations and meals.