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I look forward to the day when the likes of Latry, Cochereau, Hakim, Messiaen and Langlais fade from influence in the organ world. The polytonal bombast of the improvisations got tiresome a long time…

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You need to expose children to a broad range of styles, including at a minimum chant, traditional hymnody and contemporary hymnody.

Spoken by someone who has no grasp of the problem, j…

Thanked by 6irishtenor Abbysmum rich_enough tomjaw CHGiffen Chant_Supremacist
The fact that Ildebrando Pizzetti's setting remains neglected in all of this is depressing.

That score has sat on my desk for years. Just never had the forces to do it. But I ador…

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Has the Missa pro defunctis really become such a dead letter in the Church, that the only composed Requiems anyone knows are those done in concert halls?

Yes. How many times have I don…

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This discussion is the most recent living example of the hermeneutic of rupture. Centuries of usage and one document breaks the continuity. And now we know that continuity means nothing in the Novus …

Thanked by 5Jeffrey Quick LauraKaz davido tomjaw oldhymns
So...you can give him his money every month or not. This is not the first time this has happened. Mr. Bartlett of Source and Summit gave away his settings of the propers for years. He then chose to n…

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Many moons ago I found CC Watershed really useful and sent in money as I could.
No thanks now.

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Musicians should be sticking around, focusing on the big picture.

Uh....no. Impeding tradition in the name of smug arrogance, functioning as a local feudal lord, flying in the face of …

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I have never known a parish which progressed from reverent NO in English to NO in Latin

Ask me. And I am doing right now. In 3 years everything except the readings will be in Latin.

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It’s great that you follow the old church documents but whatever document is most recent and locally promulgated by your bishop and received by your pastor is what matters most.

So,you…

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Of course the Mass in Latin is the apogee. All else is compromise....which the Church accepts. It is pastoral in nature to not do it in Latin, but until you can show me otherwise the vernacular is ju…

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Get yourself a mentor/support to help talk through your decisions. Sometimes experience can help you avoid mistakes, And beleive me, I have been at this 40 years and have made a few mistakes. I would…

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One of the problems of "English" chant is that it has been labelled as "where you need to go." A prime candidate of this school is Source and Summit. I do not fault anyone for sta…

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Here is an important point. Most people born after 1990 only know the council in what they have read. The coucil is no longer the touchpoint it once was. Some one who asks that question is stuck in t…

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I am currently in my fourth place in which I have had to start from a place as earlier discussed. That seems to be my modus operandi these last years and I actually like it. The clue to the matter is…

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