Steve Q

I have used a couple of different models of Tascam handheld recorders and the built-in mics were very good. I upload the audio to my computer and use Audacity (free editing software) to edit it. When…

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I was quite pleased - for the most part - with the music selected for the main Congress Masses.
Catholic Music Initiative has a playlist of music selected for the Congress on Spotify. I am no…

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I just arrived home from the Congress. It was an indescribably beautiful and inspiring experience! Last month my schola did a concert of Eucharistic-themed motets in anticipation of the upcoming Euch…

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This short video is rather old, but it's still one of my all-time favorites. The children of St. Teresa's School of Sugarland, Texas sing and talk about the importance of Gregorian Chant. L…

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...would singing 'Happy birthday' count as participating at Mass on Christmas day?
This evokes a very sad memory - a parish I used to attend had a men's choir that actually sang…

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Francis - Thanks for asking. Here is a piece from a Lessons & Carols Service we performed the night before the blizzard hit. When we sang this "Rorate Caeli", we didn't realize tha…

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I love that building and drop in whenever I'm passing through the area.
Chonak - If you ever have occasion to pass through my hometown of Buffalo again (hopefully in July and not any time…

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A friend of mine who is of a certain age said that they will have to "pry the pipe organ from my cold, dead hands."

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Why were the priests vested for this? Just wondering.....

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How's this for funny timing? Tonight at the Easter Vigil during the Service of Light, the beautiful and solemn procession arrived in the sanctuary, the darkness broken only by candlelight. Just …

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I was asked to cantor at a parish for Ash Wednesday, and I was able to convince the organist NOT to play "Ashes". Thank heaven for small mercies.

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jcr - Your approach is quite sensible and prudent, clearly formed through the lessons of life experiences. Much appreciated. I was only reacting with an alternative view to the advice from the teache…

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One of those pearls of wisdom was to never hold an ambition for a student or a situation that is loftier than they hold for themselves.

I am not sure I could accept such a maxim. It se…

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Jeff Ostrowski wrote some English chant settings for Good Friday including a simple Reproaches. I have used these several times a cappella. I just found it still available here:
https://archi…

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What version of VICTIMAE PASCHALI do you use for the Easter Sequence on Sunday? My home parish uses the one found in Breaking Bread, but I like the translation in GIA’s Worship IV more.

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We use the type of mask Chuck is talking about. Got ours on Amazon through a seller called Southeastern Performance Apparel. It has a kind of bracket/frame that keeps the material away from your mout…

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MarkB - As a reformed former guitar-strumming hippie from the 60's and 70's, I can tell you that I was never able to get any folk group to sing the rhythms correctly for such songs. Everybo…

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It is really hard to explain to people why it is bad music.

Challenge them to find any 2 people in the congregation who can sing all the silly syncopations in the song the same way (no…

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I will pay you!

Oh, wow. Yeah, he must REALLY be desperate!

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I am pretty sure that in my mostly Polish parish, the same people who complain about the organ being too loud are heading out right after church to hear a Polka band that is twice as loud.

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