Hello all,
My pastor is head of two parishes, and at one of them, he will be adding an Extraordinary Form Mass for every Sunday beginning sometime early next year. The goal is to do a High Mass as often as possible, but of course that won't happen without a Schola, and Father has asked me to start one. I am not involved at all in the music at that parish - I am employed as the organist/sacred music assistant at his other parish - so I am thinking this Schola will have to be started pretty much from scratch.
So, I am looking for suggestions on how to find interested people. I tried searching this topic on here, and I did see a couple suggestions, such as holding some kind of "chant workshop" and perhaps finding interested people through that. Also, my first source will be the current choir members, although I am not expecting any of them to be interested. Does anyone have any good suggestions, aside from these and from putting an ad in the diocesan newspaper and/or church bulletin (which I will probably end up doing anyway)?
Thank you,
Charles
My pastor is head of two parishes, and at one of them, he will be adding an Extraordinary Form Mass for every Sunday beginning sometime early next year. The goal is to do a High Mass as often as possible, but of course that won't happen without a Schola, and Father has asked me to start one. I am not involved at all in the music at that parish - I am employed as the organist/sacred music assistant at his other parish - so I am thinking this Schola will have to be started pretty much from scratch.
So, I am looking for suggestions on how to find interested people. I tried searching this topic on here, and I did see a couple suggestions, such as holding some kind of "chant workshop" and perhaps finding interested people through that. Also, my first source will be the current choir members, although I am not expecting any of them to be interested. Does anyone have any good suggestions, aside from these and from putting an ad in the diocesan newspaper and/or church bulletin (which I will probably end up doing anyway)?
Thank you,
Charles