World Choir Games Flanders 2021 - Program Book
Two cities, one passion The international choral world will celebrate the 11th edition of the world's largest international choir competition in fall 2021 - with the health, wellbeing and safety of all participants and visitors as a top-priority! Antwerp and Ghent are the main hosts for the World Choir Games 2021 and promise top-class venues, fantastic choir concerts and unforgettable experiences! With three official languages and a wealth of local dialects, Belgium is a great crossroad of cultures and thus a perfect host for the largest international choir competition in the world. The international participants will be warmly welcomed and immediately feel at home when bringing their music and cultures to Flanders in fall 2021.
Two cities, one passion
The international choral world will celebrate the 11th edition of the world's largest international choir competition in fall 2021 - with the health, wellbeing and safety of all participants and visitors as a top-priority!
Antwerp and Ghent are the main hosts for the World Choir Games 2021 and promise top-class venues, fantastic choir concerts and unforgettable experiences!
With three official languages and a wealth of local dialects, Belgium is a great crossroad of cultures and thus a perfect host for the largest international choir competition in the world.
The international participants will be warmly welcomed and immediately feel at home when bringing their music and cultures to Flanders in fall 2021.
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5<br />
20:00 h<br />
Sint-Pauluskerk (Antwerp)<br />
SCHOLA GREGORIANA CANTABO (BELGIUM)<br />
Sing Like a Trappist!<br />
The Benedictine monks already knew that singing and drinking<br />
were a match made in heaven twelve centuries ago. The first<br />
mention of a malt house and brewery within the walls of an abbey<br />
dates back to 820 CE. Although the recipes of the Belgian Trappist<br />
beers are of a more recent date, they come from a rich history.<br />
Around the same period, monks also wrote and illustrated<br />
cantatoria, the very first “hymnbooks”. Musical notation did not<br />
yet exist, so the cantores wrote “neumes” as reminders above<br />
the text. Many scholars today want to take on the challenge of<br />
interpreting Gregorian chant from these oldest known sources.<br />
Let Cantabo transport you more than a millennium back in time.<br />
The monks in the abbey are preparing for the monastic prayers.<br />
They start the day before the sun rises with the metes and end<br />
the day with the vespers. The cantor teaches you the hymns as<br />
they sounded back then. In a way that is pleasant to listen to and<br />
to sing for yourself, but is also historically responsible. We finish<br />
in style with an abbey beer in hand.<br />
WORLD CHOIR GAMES <strong>2021</strong><br />
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, <strong>2021</strong><br />
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