LONDON - 12 February 2008 - 120 words
Recording company advertises for singing monks
A leading record label is advertising for a group of monks to record an album of Gregorian chant.
Universal Music is placing adverts this week in the church press, appealing for "monks, men of the cloth and sacred singers". Interested parties are being asked to send in audition tapes.
"Our aim is to reach singers from outside the X Factor generation," said Dickon Stainer, managing director of Universal Classics and Jazz.
Gregorian chant has become very popular in recent years. Many monastic communities offer recordings of their sung Masses, Daily Office. and other services. Several, such as the choir from the Burgos Santo Domingo de Silos Monastery, in Spain, are perennial best-sellers.
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