New York City, N.Y., May 4, 2017 / 05:02 am
When Christopher Alder, an 11-time Grammy winning music producer, first was asked to help create an album of Gregorian Chant, he was short on details.
"When I was asked to do this recording, I was only told, would you be free to do a recording in Nebraska?" he said in a promo video.
That's because, tucked away in the low, rolling hills of eastern Nebraska is Our Lady of Guadalupe seminary, the international school for English-speaking seminarians of the Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), a Roman Catholic group of priests dedicated to celebrating the traditional Latin Mass.
For their first album, the priests and seminarians chose to record the chants of the Requiem Mass, Latin for 'rest' - the funeral Mass in the Latin rite.