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Paul Jacobs and the Norbertine Abbey Choir

Frater Jacob (Joseph Hsieh 鈥06, left) and Frater Simeon (Charles Goodwin 鈥10, second from right), joined by 12 of their Norbertine confreres, performed at Los Angeles鈥檚 Disney Concert Hall on May 4, where they assisted Grammy Award-winning organist Paul Jacobs in presenting Bach鈥檚 Clavier-脺bung III.

Fraters Jacob and Simeon are seminarians with the Norbertine Canons in Silverado, Calif., where they sing in the Abbey Choir. Mr. Jacobs, chair of the organ department at the Juilliard School, invited the choir to sing the chorale melodies of the German Missa Brevis at his concert. According to on the Norbertines鈥 website, the organist 鈥渨as particularly interested that music written originally for religious purposes should be sung by a schola of religious.鈥 Jacobs and the Norbertines performed the two hour-long work from memory, without intermission, drawing 鈥渁n instant standing ovation from the packed house afterward.鈥