inter nationalizing the curriculum This year, the Institute promoted the internationalization of Notre Dame’s programs in the interdisciplinary arts by fostering their growing ties to prestigious European institutions and energizing the ways they reach, engage, and ultimately transform their students.
Notre Dame Chorale in Italy With the Institute’s support, Notre Dame’s fifty-member Chorale, led by Professor Alexander Blachly, sang for Pope Benedict (“he clapped long and hard”) at the General Audience on May 25th, sang evening Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, and gave concerts to large audiences at St. Ignatius in Rome and St. Francis in Assisi. This experience touched students from every college, many of whom would not otherwise have had the opportunity to travel to Europe in an educational setting. They heard lectures on Roman architecture, painting, and music, and the faculty who traveled with them built bridges between Notre Dame and the Fondazione Pro Musica e Arte Sacra.
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