Commonweal, March 24th, 1995
It is inevitable, I suppose, that only a few of us church music troglodytes can still sight-sing Gregorian Chant from the neumatic notation on a four-line staff. All the more remarkable, then, has been the success of the album, Chant," sung by the Spanish monks of Santo Domingo de Silos. It has sold 4 million copies in CD and cassette form. A double CD, the original issue in 1993, was moderately successful, but the single went over the top in the United States and worldwide.
I have heard (and sung, and conducted) some good chant in my time, in the minor and major seminaries in Saint Paul, a...
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