Articles about Professor Mahrt and the Saint Ann Choir
This page of article links was compiled to go along with “The Remarkable Sixty-Year Survival of Prof. Mahrt's St. Ann Choir," a talk I delivered on November 9, 2023 at the conference “Celebrating the Life and Work of William P. Mahrt” given by the Catholic Sacred Music Institute at the St. Patrick’s Seminary for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Most of the articles are by me. Articles by Carrie Sturrock at the San Francisco Chronicle and by Cynthia Haven at Stanford Magazine and Stanford News are linked at the end. I scanned some articles that aren’t available online and inserted them also below.
You can view the complete series of articles based on my talk at the History of the St. Ann Choir of Palo Alto CA Substack. Following is a link to the first article in the series.
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Article about Professor Mahrt, the Choir, and the Place of Chant and Polyphony in Catholic Liturgy, at the National Catholic Register (2007)
“Miracle in Palo Alto”(2013)
Palo Alto’s secret gift to the Church (2017)
How the St. Ann Choir has continually performed the Church’s traditional music for now 60 years, singing the chants for the traditional cycle of the Church year every Sunday with polyphonic motets and singing polyphonic Masses from the Renaissance on special Feasts along with chanted Propers for the feast.
Catholic choir keeps a toe-hold in Clare Boothe Luce’s Modernist chapel in Palo Alto (2018)
History of Clair Boothe Luce’s Modernist St. Ann Chapel where the Choir began
Sacred Music Proponent William Peter Mahrt's 80th Birthday (2019)
Two Articles about the William P. Mahrt Sacred Music Chair at St. Patrick’s Seminary—at the New Liturgical Movement (2022)
The William P. Mahrt Sacred Music Chair (Part 1)
An Interview with Archbishop Cordileone: The William P. Mahrt Sacred Music Chair (Part 2)
Some Articles by Other Writers
St. Ann’s Choir keeps alive the ancient chant (1982) by Charlotte Muse, Palo Alto Weekly
René Girard and Gregorian chant. (2015)
Stanford professor’s Palo Alto choir keeps Gregorian chant alive (2007) by Carrie Sturrock, San Francisco Chronicle
On Wings of Song: For a Stanford professor and his choir, Gregorian chant is a way of life. (2003)
Mahrt guides Gregorian chant’s long legacy at Stanford (2007 PDF)
St. Ann Choir celebrates 50 years of singing ageless music, by Kimberlee D’Ardenne, Palo Alto Weekly (2013)
