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June 10, 2005
Hogwarts, but with singing (and without the Reformation)
"I'd compare the Escolania with Hogwarts in 'Harry Potter,' " said Xavier Palá, a 14-year-old who is graduating. "There they teach you to make magic with wands, and here they teach us how to make magic with music."That's from an article about an 800 year old choir school (currently a boy choir, soon to be co-ed) in Catalonia, the Escolania of Montserrat, the Benedictine abbey that houses the Virign of Montserrat*, one of the great black virgins of Romanesque Europe.
*GREAT website of the Abbey, but tiny pictures. Sorry.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at June 10, 2005 8:18 AM