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On All Hallows' Eve, St. Gregory's Hall presented a special mass for the Solemnity of All Saints with His Excellency Joseph Perry presiding.
Kevin Allen directed St. Gregory's Schola in a repertoire that included original compositions by Allen and settings from Renaissance composer Josquin dez Prez's Missa Pange Lingua. Thank you to all who were able to join for this beautiful mass celebrating the communion of the blessed in heaven! Click "Read More" to view more photos. You can listen to the recording of the music from the Mass on our Soundcloud page.
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 Sarah Crow received her BFA in painting and minor in creative writing from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2013, and an MFA in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 2016. She currently lives and works in Chicago where she has also taught as a part-time lecturer at SAIC in the Painting and Drawing Department. Sarah entered the Catholic Church in 2017 and seeks to use her talents to serve Mother Church. You can learn more about her work here.
You can join Sarah Crow for a monthly life drawing session on the third Saturday of the month. Can you talk about how you came to work as an artist, and how you came to be a Catholic? We can start with whichever of those things you would prefer talk about first- but both journeys are important. I remember being a five-year-old clutching a crayon, knowing that I wanted to be an artist when I grew up. However, I went off track in my youth and came back to art almost accidentally, when I was in community college. I took art electives, and I remember in my life-drawing class, I was working on this charcoal drawing of the model and getting so frustrated, breaking down into tears and leaving the classroom. Then I pulled myself together, came back and realized: This was the hardest thing that I had ever done, and it was the most rewarding thing. And I was hooked back into art. "Let the greatest among you be the youngest, and the leader as the servant." This past Saturday, we celebrated the Solemnity of St. Gregory the Great, our patron at St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church, with a Mass featuring St. Gregory's Schola under the direction of Kevin Allen. Audio recordings of the choir, including Eucharistic Motets composed by Mr. Allen, will be posted to our website soon. Mercifully, the rain held off for our reception afterwards. Thank you to all who attended! St. Gregory the Great, pray for us! You can read a news story about this event and St. Gregory's Hall at the Chicago Catholic.  Kevin Allen is a well-known composer. His works, sacred and secular, have been performed in churches and concert halls throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Based in Chicago, he is the founding director of the Collins Consort, American Composer’s Project, and Schola Immaculata. Mr. Allen is also the director of Schola Laudis at the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Cross. He is Artist & Composer-in-Residence at St. Gregory's Hall. On Saturday, September 3, he will direct the music for a special Mass for the Feast of St. Gregory the Great. More info here. What drew you to sacred music and to composing, and what kept you in this realm of work?
It started early at Holy Angels School [in Chicago]. I had a fantastic music teacher, Sister Lorraine Quella, who was of the School Sisters of St. Francis; they were based in Milwaukee but staffing the school in Bronzeville. She was my music teacher for my entire time there at Holy Angels.  On May 22, St. Gregory's Hall hosted a Solemn Choral Evensong for Rogation Sunday at St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church in Chicago, celebrated according to Divine Worship: Daily Office, the Ordinariate form of the Liturgy of the Hours.
Rev. Richard Kramer (Moderator of the Curia for the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter) officiated. Noted liturgical musician and composer Kevin Allen directed the music.  When praying for Dorothy Day to be officially recognized as a saint in the Catholic Church, an immediate objection comes from Dorothy herself.
“What I remember her most saying is ‘Don’t make me a saint!’” said Jim Eder, temporary director of the Soup Kitchen at St. Thomas of Canterbury church, speaking of his acquaintance with the woman who co-founded the Catholic Worker movement in the U.S. “So here we are.” “Here” was St. Thomas of Canterbury church following a holy hour of prayer for Dorothy Day’s canonization. This included sung Vespers by the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius, Eucharistic adoration, and preaching from Bishop Mark Bartosic. |
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