The MCC’s director, Dr. Jennifer Donelson, is available to give talks or workshops in your parish leading up to the MCC’s visit to your parish. These talks and workshops can be tailored to a general parish audience or a smaller group like the parish choir or youth group.

Previous parish workshops and lectures have included:

• A Treasure of Inestimable Value: Discovering Our Catholic Heritage and Learning to Pray through Gregorian Chant
• The Basics of Gregorian Chant: A One-Day Intensive Course in Reading and Singing Gregorian Chant
• The Solesmes and Ward Methods: Building a Comprehensive Music Program
• Introduction to Directing Gregorian Chant
• Singing the Mass: Clergy and Seminarian Training
• The Music of Holy Week
• Building up the Church through Sacred Music
• Sacred Music and the New Evangelization

Workshops and lectures schedules can be structured according to the circumstances and audience. One of the following formats may work well for your parish:

• Evening talk for the whole parish
• Saturday workshop for choir members (your choir alone, or your choir combined with other neighboring parishes)
• Half-day workshop for choir members (your choir alone, or your choir combined with other neighboring parishes)

You might consider narrowing the audience of the workshop to:

• Your parish choir(s)
• Your parish choir(s) combined with choirs from neighboring parishes
• Cantors serving in your parish
• Youth group
• Confirmation group
• Parish evangelization group
• Knights of Columbus, Legion of Mary, or other societies in the parish

To discuss a topic, format, and audience that would benefit from a talk or workshop in your parish, contact us at MetroCatholicChorale@gmail.com.