At St. Stephen's Catholic Church in Sacramento, the ancient musical form is sung by children and young men and women, a multiethnic choir of multicolored voices.
Teens sing wearing Vans or boots poking out from beneath cassocks. They sing at Masses where toddlers babble and babies wail and adults walk in and out during services.
Rehearsal is in a classroom furnished with old pews, the ceiling covered in dull acoustic tiles.
The setting is mundane, but the music is ethereal. It's ear- pleasing and eye-opening, but difficult to describe.
It resonates when the men's deeper voices are breathing the Latin phrases.
When the higher voices come in, the music undulates; it flows out like unrhythmic acoustic heat: radiant music.
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(HT The New Liturgical Movement)
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