Columbus Dispatch

French monks' Gregorian chants draw tourists

SOLESMES, France -- One of the tasks of Roger Server as mayor of this quaint village is to console misguided tourists who want to hear the monks in its 11th-century monastery singing in Gregorian ...
National Catholic Reporter

Churches may be in decline, but Gregorian chant beats secular competition

A new Gregorian chant CD by a group of Benedictine monks in Norcia, Italy, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's classical music chart last week. The album, "Benedicta," was also the top overall seller at ...
Jazz

Joyful Noise: Gregorian Chant by The Monastic Choir of St. Peter's Abbey of Solesmes

Every generation since the beginning of recorded music discovers Gregorian Chant. The most recent (re)discovery was in the mid-1990s with the phenomenally successful Chant CDs from The Benedictine ...
SFGate

Move over, Madonna / A CD of Gregorian chants by a group of Cistercian monks is a surprise crossover hit, reaching the pop charts

It isn't every day that a group of Catholic monks find themselves on the pop charts. Yet that's what happened to the monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz, a 12th-century Cistercian monastery near Vienna, ...
National Catholic Register

Gregorian Chant Revival

The last Daily Blog post focused on the ancient institution of the human family. This one deals with something not quite so ancient, but still a venerable and honored tradition: Gregorian chant. But ...