john m

In the diocese of Marquette about 12 years ago, our then-Bishop Sample asked parishes to introduce the sung Creed at each parish's principal Mass. We did so, and have sung it every Sunday since,…

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During the hymn selection process, Bishop Doerfler of Marquette requested hymn submissions from all the music directors and asked the hymnal committee to accept as many of them as possible. Several w…

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Regarding the Marquette hymnal: after an encouragingly solid start, the bishop has fallen silent on the subject of sacred music. I do not know whether this is because he has already said all that he …

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I detected a snippet of Veni Creator at the end.

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What would have been going through my mind:
'What is he going to do next? No...I can't believe it. The uke? Really? The UKE? Here? That is not going to fly here. That's it, I�…

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I am looking for any edition of Samuel Sebastian Wesley's "A Book of Interludes for Young Organists". I've snooped around on the internet and cannot find anything. The original pu…

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How about Chantalot? The Benedictunes?

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Enough so that on the weekend when V is in Mexico, W has bronchitis, X is away for a family wedding, Y forgot to reset the alarm clock for daylight savings time, and Z thought it was the 31st Sunday …

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Alius cantus aptus.

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In 25 years' experience, Midnight Mass is the domain of the diehards: the parish choir, the orchestra, the most active parishioners, as well as the public of little or no faith who come only for…

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The St. Nicholas Mass of Haydn for the Kyrie and Gloria. Before Mass, Quelle est cette odeur agreable, in the David Willcocks arrangement, the Ave Maria of Franz Biebl, and a rare and hard-to-find ge…

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PeterJ - we chant the Communio proper immediately after the Domine non sum dignus. At that point the celebrant is communicating himself and in most parishes nothing else is happening at that moment. …

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In my 25 years' experience of sacred music at the parish level, what words are sung at the Agnus Dei have never, EVER, been an issue amongst the faithful of the congregation. This stuff is force…

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I think rather than truncating any chants, I would prefer to use the available rehearsal time to learn complete and authentic chants as they appear in the Graduale, but perhaps prioritize them, using…

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The Upper Michigan job includes not only the cathedral's music but helping parishes implement the Bishop's directives. A high level of proficiency in both organ and conducting, as well as d…

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Typical liberalism. When I run up against this attitude, my answer is "Isn't the school a place to be challenged to LEARN? Since when are subjects in school supposed to be dumbed down for t…

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Wow - what a blast from the past! In my case - St. Helen's in Saginaw, Michigan, about 1974 - I remember thinking at the age of ten that this Our Father sounded ridiculous and irreverent. It…

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Sneak in at night, open up the Rodgers and pour a bottle of Coke onto the circuit boards. Then announce that the electronic organ is "broken" and will take a half a million dollars to fix. …

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"mixed choirs should avoid clerical attire"

But I don't think it has been really established that the cassock and surplice is strictly clerical attire. If it is, then as D…

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It is my opinion that the framers of SttL attempted to ban the cassock and surplice altogether for lay musicians as a timid avoidance of the gender issues surrounding liturgical attire. I believe the…

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Many people have never been taught how to use their entire vocal range. I have noticed that many who claim not to be able to reach the higher notes will frequently venture into the upper register in …

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It would be nice if Bishops came with instructions for installing them.

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I think we all have those days with our choirs. :-)

Having gone through Good Fridays sustaining the choral pitch on the soft stops, after some time we were able to have an organ-free Goo…

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I have always taken "to sustain singing" to mean that the organ is used only to maintain the choir on pitch (for instance, with only an 8' Dulciana), and the choir's singing shoul…

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"What organ music do you feel is essentially Catholic, that is in terms of the actual noes on the page?"

Is there an essential difference between a Catholic B-flat and a Protes…

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I will be using Bach's O Lamm Gottes unschuldig BWV 656. It pulls out all the stops in the grandest manner, yet retains the pathos appropriate to Lent. The last few bars are a particularly movin…

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