Check out this article by Christina Gray from this fall’s Catholic San Francisco.
The intermittent harmonies of Gregorian chant echo down the halls of St. Patrick’s Seminary & University on a hot July day. It comes not from within the campus chapel, but from a small classroom in the seminary’s west wing. Here, two dozen adults from as far away as Paraguay, Slovenia and Mozambique, and as close by as Menlo Park, stand shoulder-to-shoulder in front of Jennifer Donelson-Nowicka, music sheets in hand.
Another handful could be seen on monitors at the front and back of the classroom Zooming in from different time zones across the globe.
They are parish music directors, liturgists, priests and nuns but mostly lay Catholics here for a weeklong course in “Introduction to Gregorian Chant.” The course is one of more than a dozen graduate-level liturgical music courses offered in summer sessions by the Catholic Institute of Sacred Music at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park.