Gamba

Card. Cupich named to Congregation for Divine Worship
the bishop Mgr Rey….and he's no longer able to ordain, at least for now, men that he had called to orders and who were supposed to be ordained this month. Isn’t that due to the obstinance of said men, who refused to be ordained according to th…

Comment by Gamba June 2022 permalink
Card. Cupich named to Congregation for Divine Worship
I would not celebrate Mass the way Fr. Pfleger does, but I hope the online legions who constantly complain about him are working as hard in their communities as he does in Auburn Gresham. I would not last 41 years in a dying “ghetto” parish I was se…

Comment by Gamba June 2022 permalink
Keeping it short
.... but why must one be in a hurry? I personally would be very happy to hear the Bach b minor Mass every Sunday, with all the verses of the offertory, a complete psalm appended to the introit, a sermon the length of Chrysostom’s, 5000 people in at…

Comment by Gamba May 2022 permalink
Keeping it short
Not necessarily, unless the Masses are 90 minutes apart, or Father has to run across town to one of the 500 other churches in his cluster….Just saying that a decently nice Mass with good music doesn’t automatically mean it will have to take 80 minut…

Comment by Gamba May 2022 permalink
Keeping it short
This conversation makes me think about how vital good [in all respects] preaching is. I was blessed to work for a priest who never went over 4’. In a very reverberant room, that worked out to one page, 14pt Times New Roman. Because he was both smart…

Comment by Gamba May 2022 permalink
Corpus Christi Procession: Only at the Principal Mass?
Procession (on Sunday) afternoon, beginning with exposition and a period of adoration in one church (or the Catholic school offsite), and then setting off across town to another church, where there is then Vespers and Benediction. This works well; t…

Comment by Gamba May 2022 permalink
Music for the Entrance of the Bride.
https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Wedding_Processional_(Sowerby%2C_Leo)

Comment by Gamba May 2022 permalink
New Organ Console -- Costs, Complications, Recommendations??
Nihil All that makes sense, and I like your thinking. Seems you will really be making the best of a somewhat-compromised situation. If I can add a few more thoughts: – Why stop at 100 memory levels? Nowadays with computer memory as cheap as it i…

Comment by Gamba May 2022 permalink
New Organ Console -- Costs, Complications, Recommendations??
Nihil – Without knowing more about the organ (what's the control system? How is it all wired up in the chambers? Who would build the new console?) I don't know the answer to 1, 2, and 3. I do think a smaller console is quite convenient. L…

Comment by Gamba May 2022 permalink
Organ is too loud!
To be fair to the hearing aid crowd: anything >8’ flute, box shut, is way too much sound for the tiny microphone, amplifier, and speaker in a hearing aid to process. There is tremendous distortion and feedback when a device made to pick up a pers…

Comment by Gamba May 2022 permalink
Aleatoric plainsong.
If I may briefly interrupt without a joke, there is this stunning improv by the great Matt Glandorf on the simple Salve, with six singers. While it is not purely aleatoric insofar as there was an agreed-upon pitch and melody, in places the singers s…

Comment by Gamba May 2022 permalink
Lessons I have learned... and lessons you have learned?
@TCJ That sounds truly right and just, and something fantastic for the musicians, and also for the people. I’m curious how you guys managed to make the switch; I have always thought such a setup would be fine after 5 years, but at the beginning, d…

Comment by Gamba May 2022 permalink
Lessons I have learned... and lessons you have learned?
As an organist, I’ve learned how important it is to track each and every word of the Mass if you want to play well, by reading the lessons and the prayers in advance and paying close attention on the bench. I think sometimes there is the attitude of…

Comment by Gamba May 2022 permalink
Hymns for Good Shepherd Sunday
1 Shepherd of tender [or eager] youth, Guiding in love and truth Through devious ways, Christ, our triumphant King, We come thy name to sing; Hither thy children bring Tributes of praise. 2 Thou art our holy Lord, The all-subduing Word, Healer of s…

Comment by Gamba May 2022 permalink
Organ as separate voice....
CGZ Here is a lovely piece which seems to do just that: The souls of the righteous, by Geraint Lewis. The organ essentially is in dialogue with the choir; they only sound together at a few points. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3qOnTQJYsU On …

Comment by Gamba May 2022 permalink
The Old Rugged Cross
I see nothing in it that’s contrary to Catholic teaching or even questionable, save only 2 lines of the last verse, which might sound a bit presumptuous if one is in a pedantic mood 1 On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross, the emblem of suf…

Comment by Gamba April 2022 permalink
Kid-friendly liturgy
My 2yo agrees. Choir sings: rapt attention Someone chants: rapt attention Organ plays: rapt attention Altar bells: rapt attention Reading: iffy Preaching: time to head for the hills

Comment by Gamba April 2022 permalink
What to look for (or intentionally put) in a job description
Does "knowledge of the Liturgy documents of Vatican II" say "Green Light" or "Red Light" to folks? For me that’s a Signal Ahead sign; red if subsequent mention of Gather, green if mention of Mundelein Psalter.

Comment by Gamba April 2022 permalink
What to look for (or intentionally put) in a job description
–Salary range –Clear language about status quo: “there is currently a folk trio and a Resurrection choir of six, but Fr. Pastor would like you to have the Westminster Cathedral Choir School 2.0 running by Christmas and there is no funding in place…

Comment by Gamba April 2022 permalink
examples of same setting, different texts?
There’s a joke in here somewhere…

Comment by Gamba April 2022 permalink
Exsultet: deacon vs cantor parts
It may be worth pointing out that the GM is not authoritative; it is just a nice handy collection of the chants from the Graduale, as specified by the Ordo Cantus Missae, made more accessible with unofficial-but-useful translations and additional te…

Comment by Gamba April 2022 permalink
Brass Accompaniments for Eucharistic Hymns
no horn in procession This is mellophone erasure!

Comment by Gamba April 2022 permalink
Universities
Yale. Curtis.

Comment by Gamba April 2022 permalink
'Roman Missal Chants' vs. Missa XVIII
I think the official title is Missa unicus cantus utiles, quos in hoc horribili libro ex OCP invenire possum.

Comment by Gamba April 2022 permalink
Suggestions for Motets for Anniversary of Priestly Ordination?
On the simple side, but apt. https://imslp.org/wiki/Strengthen_for_Service,_Lord,_the_Hands_(Willan%2C_Healey) Strengthen for service, Lord, the hands that holy things have taken; let ears that now have heard thy songs to clamour never waken. Lor…

Comment by Gamba March 2022 permalink
Qualities of a Great Music Minister: What Are They?
There is also the danger in Trad parishes post the new motu proprio (TC) that a bishop may decide that effective immediately, in his diocese there can only be a TLM on the fifth Tuesday, only in months that have a fifth Tuesday, at Ss. Toaster and C…

Comment by Gamba March 2022 permalink
Qualities of a Great Music Minister: What Are They?
I would suggest that you need to be all right with moving around the country, and having no permanent hometown. My father is an engineer, and has lived in the same city his whole life. He stayed in his first job out of college for thirty years, and …

Comment by Gamba March 2022 permalink
EF Instrumental Organ Playing During the Canon
Yes, of course I jest :) However, I have known organs where the choir celeste (flat) and the swell celeste (sharp) were well nigh a quarter-tone apart when the temperature wasn't quite right....

Comment by Gamba March 2022 permalink
EF Instrumental Organ Playing During the Canon
@Salieri That’s what the celestes are for…..

Comment by Gamba March 2022 permalink
How do you do the psalms of the Easter Vigil?
I like to do a mixture: a responsorial psalm, one of the tracts/canticles with its authentic melody, a motet on the text of the tract (e.g Palestrina Sicut cervus), etc. Exact mix depending on capacity of choir(s) in a given year and what else they …

Comment by Gamba March 2022 permalink

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