The Recovering Choir Director

The indefatigable duo of Arlene Oost-Zinner and Jeffrey Tucker report on the proceedings of the Church Music Association of America’s Fourteenth Liturgical Music Colloquium.

Money paragraph (emphasis added):

Gisbert Brandt of the Cathedral School in Cologne, Germany, directed the sessions on chant. In rehearsal he emphasized the need to sing chant with a sense of joy, imparting the chant with a dance-like quality, and childlike enthusiasm. Whereas chant is sometimes rendered as stern and strict, Brandt encouraged singers to treat it as a spiritually exuberant musical prayer.