You all know and love the video (La métamorphose d’un autel) embedded in my entry Talk about an ALTARation! in which we see a rather banal modern altar being dressed for an ad orientem Mass.
Some of you have asked about the music.
The music for this video is the Lagrasee Te Deum (this is St. Mary’s Abbey, Lagrasse in the Diocese of Carcassonne, the Canons Regular of the Mother of God).
The Abbot of this monastery was recently a guest in the house I live in here in Rome. I had supper with him one evening. Let me tell you, these guys’ve got game! I was impressed.
I suspect the Te Deum is a composition of a fairly young composer, perhaps one of the canons? It may not go down in history as a great piece, but it is decent. The performance is by an amateur or student group, I guess, which reinforces the possibility that it is the composition of a young composer.
In any event, I extracted the audio, and you can listen here.
UPDATE: I tip my biretta to Abbé F.H. o{]:¬) who tells us that the Te Deum is a composition of Jeanne Barbey, you can learn more about her here (in French).
UPDATE to the update: I got a note from Abbé F.H. that you can purchase Jeanne Bareby’s music here and hear and interview with her in French here. He said that when he listens to her talk about her illness, cystic fibrosis, he feels very small.
This story keeps growing.
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